Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained exposed to the elements. As soon as a foreign visitor appeared, the emaciated people took him for a doctor, crowded around and clutched at his trousers and clung to his legs, pleading for help. Half crazy for food, they trampled each other and knocked down their flimsy shelters in their rush to get to the foreigner...
...even the thousands who squatted outside on the excrement-splattered ground could consider themselves lucky. "The ones who make it to this camp are the strong ones," said Miles Harris, a British doctor. "The other 80% are dying up in the hills, too weak to move...
...baboon heart fails, but a doctor defends the transplant...
Baby Fae's condition could possibly have been corrected by the Norwood operation, says Castenada. He emphasized that unless Bailey had developed some novel technique for supressing the immune system after the transplant he would be critical of the doctor for ignoring other methods...
...probably wouldn't have lived any longer without the baboon heart but now they're both dead," he says. He added that very rarely does a doctor have to make a life or death decision based on killing an animal for the sake of a human being. "Seventy million animals die every year in experiments and almost none of these deaths save the life of a human...