Word: giannelli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That admission raised the larger question of whether Baby Fae's parents had been properly advised of possible alternatives to the baboon heart. "If they didn't even look for potential life-saving alternatives, what does this mean in terms of the 'informed consent' of the parents?" asked Michael Giannelli, science adviser for the Fund for Animals. According to Minnesota Surgeon Najarian, Baby Fae's doctors should have recommended a form of corrective surgery for hypoplastic heart developed by Dr. William Norwood, chief of cardiac surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Norwood's procedure, which is practiced at only...
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