Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Damien had no problems regarding the donor. "The donor," he wrote, "is in no way 'sacrificed' by the doctors. He has already been in a closed circuit [heart-lung machine] for days, and is therefore already dead (flat electroencephalogram, etc.). His survival is artificial. So, no problem...
...Father Damien concerned about personality changes as a result of receiving a new heart. He cited the Vatican's position that the heart is nothing but a pump-"an admirable pump, but 'stupid,' a machine having its own circuit...
...physician and no machine can forecast with certainty whether a man will have a heart attack, or when. Until such prevision becomes possible, doctors must rely heavily on the electrocardiograph, which, although not much of a predictor, is a smart detective. It can usually reveal whether a heart has been damaged, and with these clues the cardiologist can prescribe care and treatment for patients who seem to run the greatest risks of heart attacks. Yet the electrocardiograph has identified only a fraction of the nation's ailing hearts...
...Thiokol Chemical's Humetrics Division, the device is called ElectroCardioAnalyzer. It is a miniaturized computer as well as a simplified electrocardiograph. By comparing a subject's graph with fixed standards that have been programmed into the machine beforehand, it can detect abnormal electrical activity in the heart. When it -does so, warning lights flash on, and the technician knows that this patient must be referred to the cardiologist...
Died. Konstantin Paustovsky, 76, Soviet author (The Story of a Life), and dean of his country's literary liberals; of heart disease; in Moscow. Although a traditionalist in much of his own work, Paustovsky defended such rebels as Boris Pasternak and Yuli Daniel, was so well entrenched that the Kremlin could only let him have...