Word: hepatologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant, so that the family could reconsider the decision. "It was purely voluntary," says Dr. Peter Whitington, a pediatric hepatologist on the transplant team. "I think this mother, even if she had greater complications, would believe she did the right thing. I believe this father, even if he lost his wife, would believe he did the right thing...
...least one member of Falk's award committee was familiar with tales of Eppinger's past. Dr. Hans Popper, 80, former dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a pre-eminent hepatologist, was a student of Eppinger's in Vienna in the 1930s. Popper's feelings toward his former mentor are ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life...
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