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...ranging from medical care to food stamps. In Oregon, 1,400 out of 2,000 refugees are on welfare. More than 40% of those who have managed to find jobs are earning less than $2,500 a year, and nearly 70% are earning less than $5,000. Says Richard Friedman, regional director of HEW for six Midwestern states: "Within a year or so, I expect we'll see these people begin to move up the economic ladder. They are a very intelligent, resilient, resourceful people." Many now work as filling-station attendants, messengers or office clerks. Tran Dinh...
...idea came to me out of simple frustration," says Dr. Eli A. Friedman, inventor of the suitcase kidney. Fried man, director of the renal diseases section at New York's Downstate Medical Center, had planned to take 25 kidney patients on a European holiday in 1974, dialyzing them at stopovers en route. But at the last minute, medical authorities in Copenhagen concluded that they did not have enough dialysis machines to handle so many additional patients. Forced to cancel the trip, Friedman resolved to build a dialysis machine that kidney patients could carry on their travels and operate...
...impurities in the blood pass through the membrane and into the so-called dialysate or purifying fluid, which consists of a mixture of water and salts supplied from a large vat holding 25 gal. or more. Such a container was obviously too large for a portable system. So Friedman and his engineering collaborator, James Hutchisson, decided on a 5-gal. plastic container customarily used by campers and yachtsmen to carry water. Because the portable unit's pumps were smaller, they had to work faster; otherwise the dialysis would take longer than the usual five hours. Would this faster flow...
Safe and Efficient. Half a year after they started, Friedman and Hutchisson had their answer. Tests on both animal and human blood indicated that the new machine was not only safe but efficient at cleansing the blood. After only four weeks of instruction, the plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend...
Even though as provost he had to enforce painful budget cuts, Wilson is popular with the faculty. He already had a run-in with leaders of the student government, however, after they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...