Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...
...organs the patient specified for donation. The doctor can also get the name of the next of kin-from whom, under most present state laws, permission must still be sought. It will stm be up to both the doctor and Medic Alert to inform transplant surgeons that an organ donor is available...
...point, Dr. Belzer emphasizes, is not to see how long a kidney can be kept, but to give the surgeon more time to do his job better. Most transplants are now performed as emergencies, when a donor becomes available for a patient who has been kept waiting for weeks in the hospital. Belzer's machine, which costs $8,000, gives doctors ample time to do thorough testing of blood and tissue types, and to leave the patient at home until they are sure they have the right match. Such a machine should make it possible for surgeons...
...Minnesota Democrat Walter F. Mondale, to set up a presidential commission to study and evaluate scientific research in medicine. In some surgeons' minds, Mondale's proposal has blurred into the fearsome specter of having a commission decide on each individual transplant and establish the death of the donor before the transplant team can be called...
Self-Appointed Critics. Any further restrictions on surgeons seemed unnecessary and unwise to Barnard. The death of a heart donor is already certified by the most experienced neurosurgeons and neurologists, he said. As for the radical nature of the operation, Barnard felt that the decision to remove a dying man's heart "may not be as difficult as the decision to remove a young woman's breast because of a lump...