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...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...
...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...
...last spring at the Production Workshop. Brown's equivalent of the Loeb Ex, people began lining up at 9 a.m. to pick up the free tickets distributed 10 hours later. Only slotted for six performances, the story of Hair would have ended there, were it not for a mysterious donor who gave the group $4,000 to take the show on tour...
...variety of ways, through lesions caused by anogenital sex, for example, or by dirty hypodermic needles. The hemophiliac cases raise the frightening possibility that it can also be transferred through blood transfusions. One model for such an agent is the hepatitis B virus, which commonly infects homosexuals, drug addicts, donor-blood recipients and, partly because of poor sanitary conditions, most Haitians. A few researchers speculate that the AIDS agent may have originated in Haiti and been sexually transmitted to American homosexuals vacationing there...