Word: kirklin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Alabama's Kirklin: "Healthcare delivery in this country is restrained by dollars available. I wonder what other things would be curtailed if a disproportionate share went to artificial hearts...
...death from heart attack in many patients. From 1975 to 1980, some 540,000 bypasses were performed in the U.S., too many according to some critics, who feel that drug therapy is safer, cheaper (a bypass costs about $15,000) and as effective in many cases. Says Surgeon John Kirklin of the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, who performs an average of six bypasses a week: "Bypass grafting can make a person absolutely well who has been totally disabled. But you don't want to use such a powerful weapon until you have to. You want to keep...