Word: herrick
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...State of Maryland sued a seller of medical-alert units (price: $1,295 each) that became useless junk when the firm failed to pay the company monitoring the equipment. And the American Association of Retired Persons decries the industry's high-pressure sales ploys. According to Myra Herrick, a retired Boston AARP representative, one elderly woman bought a Lifecall system after a four-hour sales pitch because she wanted the salesperson to leave. (Lifecall denies knowledge of the incident.) AARP contends that at $1,000 or more plus monthly monitoring fees, the systems are usually costlier than emergency-response services...
Murray began his research on organ transplantation during his residency atBrigham Hospital, and on December 23, 1954,performed the first successful transplantation ofa kidney from one identical twin, Ronald Herrick,into his brother Richard Herrick...