Word: livered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murray performed the first kidney transplant on non-identical twins, and over the following 22 years, he conducted successful pancreas, liver, heart, lung and heart-and-lung transplants...
...released their hostages, only to be captured by authorities, who tricked them into giving up their arms in exchange for the promise of safe passage to Guatemala. In a note left behind in the courthouse, the gang's leader said he needed the money to treat his cirrhotic liver. "Forgive me, Costa Rica," he wrote...
...ties her "resolute shoes" with 30-year-old laces soaked every Sunday in linseed oil ("My shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well as all the modern medicine...
...Oregon plan to extend Medicaid to those not now getting it, recouping the cost by no longer reimbursing treatment for conditions that clear up by themselves (e.g., the common cold) or that afflict only a few people and involve heavy expense for a doubtful outcome -- for example, some liver transplants...
Opponents claim that to deny liver transplants to victims of liver cancer, an extremely expensive and unrewarding procedure, or life support to anencehpalic infants--that is, infants born with no brain, who have absolutely no prognosis for recovery--is to put a price on human life...