Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood to the liver for chemical processing, and the inferior vena cava. The hepatic artery, which delivers blood for the liver's own oxygen needs, was so damaged by pressure from the cancer as to be useless. Moore and Birtch decided to use in its place the right kidney artery. That meant removing the right kidney, but a single healthy kidney is all the body needs...
...beer, cigarettes, detergents and automobiles to support $22,000-per-minute television commercials, but is unwilling to pay for the vitally needed equipment or manpower to save the lives of more than a slim handful of the 20,000 or more Americans who develop a treatable kidney disease each year...
...visualize an inexpensive, news-report type of one-minute commercial that quietly states that the sponsor bought 44 kidney dialysis machines with the money he otherwise would have spent on the usual T.V. commercial. While showing scenes of the equipment in use, mention could be made of the 308 people whose lives were saved and were being supported. If competition developed between sponsors, maybe more than a mere handful of lives could be saved...
...beating hell out of him? Our officers wouldn't dare," says Reddin. "They know that if they did, they'd be prosecuted, and might just wind up in the joint." Undoubtedly, there are more subtle forms of physical abuse?an elbow in the back or a punch in the kidney. But the new worry, as Reddin readily admits, is psychological brutality?the condescending look, or the tone of voice that indicates to a man that he is a suspect merely because of his color, clothes or accent...
Avram has applied for a state grant of $30,000 to expand his unit to a capacity of 42 patients. Thousands of kidney-failure victims are dying each year, he insists, for lack of such facilities. A further drawback is that each patient is tied down to within easy reach of his own unit. Avram looks forward to the day when there will be "dialysis hotels" or "human Laundromats" where patients can check in at night, wherever they happen to be, get hooked up and dialysed, and leave in the morning...