Word: kidneys
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Davis center suspends heart operations, kidney transplants
...University of California Davis Medical Center (U.M.C.) was increasingly cited for excellent patient care and impressive research, particularly in heart disease. But its reputation has now suffered a brutal blow. At the palm-lined campus in Sacramento, all kidney transplants and heart surgery have been suspended because of charges of excessive complications and high mortality rates...
...results: 17% died and 40% of the 288 survivors had surgical complications. Nationwide, the mortality and morbidity rates for heart surgery are, respectively, about 2% and 8%. The kidney transplant ban results from charges of "gross incompetence and negligence" leveled at Chief Kidney Transplant Surgeon Satya Chatterjee by Dr. William Kirby, a former senior resident in urology at U.M.C., and Nurse Kathleen Whittemore, the hospital's former transplant coordinator...
Chatterjee, 42, now on sabbatical, has practiced for four years at the 405-bed facility. Between 1977 and '79, says Kirby, 24% of Chatterjee's 55 patients rejected kidneys and 36% required additional operations, because of surgical errors. The comparable figures for departmental colleagues, he notes, were no higher than 6% and 18%. In 6 1/2 months in 1980-81, Kirby claims, Chatterjee performed 23 more kidney transplants, and 25% of the patients died. Nationally the mortality rate after one year for kidney recipients is around 10%, and in some centers it is under...
...four Herriot books are bolts cut from the same Scottish tweed, carefully interweaving the local patois (Owt a gurt cow wi' nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers...