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After 21 days of battling to preserve a fragile life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this...
...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...