Word: linda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Bailey's five-hour operation, a report in the Los Angeles Times confirmed that a human heart was available at the UCLA medical school located only 50 miles from Loma Linda. In addition, other procedures, namely the so-called Norwood operation--which attempts, by surgery, to make the defective heart function normally--used extensively by Dr. Aldo R. Castenada of the Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, might have been employed with more success...
...drastic condition of Baby Fae before the operation led him to believe that a time-consuming search for a suitable human heart would simply cost Baby Fae her life. "We did not search for any human hearts before the operation," he says in a press statement. The Loma Linda Medical Center however has refused to make public either the data on Baby Fae herself, or the deliberation before conducting the operation. "The hospital regards all information on Baby Fae as private," says Jessical Baker, spokesperson...
...were very displeased with the whole situation at Loma Linda," says Aaron Medlock, executive director of the New England Anti-Vivesectionist Society. "We feel a great deal for Baby Fae because she was used, just as the sacrificed baboon, as an animal in an experiment. The public just doesn't understand that the operation did not take place for the benefit of Baby Fae, but for the benefit of researchers...
Bailey says he had consulted the parents of Baby Fae and "completely informed them of all other possibilities to save their child's life." And the Loma Linda Ethics Board, made-up of citizens and doctors, reviewed and gave approval to the operation, says spokesperson Baker...
Georga says to her knowledge no such forum took place at Loma Linda. "No such novel operation should happen in a suprise manner as it did there," she says...