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From lush Linda to contrary Kinks, a list of holiday pleasures...
Anna played by Linda Sugin, is the symbolic presence that inspires the trio's journey backwards. Sugin is good as the pretentious, provocative pal but in her performance is inconsistent. Anna is both an eerie intangible presence and also a real woman who comes to visit her old friend and witnesses the rather pathetic relationship between her friend and her husband. Sugin handles the former deftly. But as the middle aged sophisticated visitor, Sugin suddenly seems affected, with a manner more conducive for a Broadway musical than serious drama...
...from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved out of the limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been...
...been used to save 20 times as many fatally diseased patients with considerably more success. In addition, the traditional checks and balances in the medical profession--which do not include government interference--would usually weed out such hopeless operations as the one performed on Baby Fae. But the Loma Linda Hospital published no information, and consequently violated the code of ethics which keeps American medicine so respectable...
...LEAST the operations at the Humana and Loma Linda Hospitals promised some widespread application in the future, compensating for their violations of the sacred medical code of ethics. The number of organs available from organ banks in this country will never match the number of needed transplants, and experimentation with artificial and animals hearts offers some relief in this area. If the medical profession decides to continue with expensive transplant procedures despite the somewhat hypocritical warnings from Harvard, certainly research devoted to finding other sources to supplement the scarce human organ supply is wanting. In effect, Harvard has harshly criticized...