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...cadavers; unlike kidney donors, who have a second kidney to keep them going, no man can donate his liver and live. But the liver has a remarkable ability to regenerate damaged cells and rebuild lost tissue-an ability which suggested to University of Kentucky Surgeon Ben Eiseman that if a diseased human liver could be given a vacation from its vital work, it might rebuild itself sufficiently to start functioning properly once more...
Sound Reasons. But there is no arti ficial liver comparable to the artificial kidney, and there is no hope of devising one soon, because the liver's multiple tasks are even more complex than the kidneys'. Surgeon Eiseman eventually decided to use a pig's liver, and for sound medical reasons: a pig's liver is about the same size as a man's, performs the same functions, is just about the cleanest liver in the animal kingdom...
...effects of practice and lack of practice are equally apparent among surgeons who operate inside the human heart, say Dr. Ben Eiseman and Dr. Frank C. Spencer of the University of Kentucky. In routine operations standardized by tradition, they say in Circulation (published by the American Heart Association), there is a "ritual of technique" so familiar that "even the occasional surgeon can dabble as an amateur with some safety for his patient." Not so in open-heart surgery...
...only does delicate and dangerous surgery inside and around the heart, especially in infants, demand exquisite skill in the chief surgeon: he must have equally skilled helpers, and they all need as much practice as he does. "Open-heart surgery," say Dr. Eiseman and Dr. Spencer, "unfortunately has a totally undeserved role as a professional status symbol." It is no field, they add, "for those who follow the fads." In recognition of the problem, cardiologists in smaller cities are beginning to refer more of their patients to the busy surgeons in the big centers...
Skin First. The Eiseman line now extends through 250 stores in 42 states, has an outlet in London. "It sounds awful," confesses President Laurence Eiseman, "but we sell only to the top stores." Kennedys under twelve own Florence Eiseman clothes. So do Prince Albert and Princess Caroline of Monaco, Elizabeth, Taylor's daughter Liza and well-dressed scores of others whose parents like that unfrilled look. Last week, in Manhattan to display the new spring and "cruise wear" fashions, Florence Eiseman explained why. "I believe," she said, busy knitting something white and inscrutable, "that all children are beautiful. Their...