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...cattle truck and lowered into a bare coffin resting on sawhorses in the street. A few miles up the dirt road, graves were being dug for the two brothers and 17 other villagers killed last week when 100 to 200 leftist insurgents raided the tiny hamlet of Santa Cruz Loma, 33 miles southeast of San Salvador, the capital. Among the dead were six members of the local civil defense team, as well as a woman and three small children. Three of the victims had their throats slit...
...emanated 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...
...have 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...
...Loma Linda doctors did not. Hence the unease. One does not have to impute venal motives-a desire for glory or a lust for publicity-to wonder about the ethics of the choice. The motive was science, the research imperative. Priority was accorded to the claims of the future, of children not yet stricken, not yet even born...