Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, but Clark still faces a high risk of blood clotting, pneumonia and especially infection, which could develop around the tubes that enter his chest; they carry the pulses of air that drive the heart. But the artificial organ does have a key advantage over one from a human donor: since the plastic device contains no tissue, Clark's body is less likely to reject...
...Rather, all of whom he contacted, Fiske persuaded the American Academy of Pediatrics to allow him to make a plea before 1,000 academy members at their annual meeting in New York City. "I ask you to keep your eyes and ears open for the possibility of a donor," urged Fiske, the only layman ever to address the group. "Jamie wants to survive...
...ethics of Jamie Fiske's case were complicated by two facts: her parents had the resources and skills to find their own donor, and the donor's family specified that the liver of their child should go to Jamie, and Jamie alone. Once the organ was made available, doctors did use the A.M.A. guidelines. There were four babies at Pittsburgh equally suited to the transplant, but none had a greater need than Jamie. In addition, doctors at Pittsburgh were already busy with a liver transplant and could not handle a second one. "If another child had been...
...organ." Not everyone agrees. James Childress, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, says, "The moral decision should hinge on who had been waiting the longest, or even decided by lottery." Everyone does agree on one thing. As Jane Van Hook, Minneapolis' donor coordinator, puts it, "If more people were attuned to providing organs, the ethical considerations would not arise." Nor would families feel compelled to become press agents for suffering loved ones...
...list is not restricted to dormitories: many a visitor to the Busch-Reisinger Museum has found a certain spiritual succor in the memory of its chief donor, the St. Louis brewer tycoon Adolphus Busch...