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...decision of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) board of trustees to prohibit human heart transplants could discourage other institutions from performing similar transplants...
Many Harvard Medical School professors said yesterday that they agree with the MGH decision...
Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology in the Faculty of Public Health and an associate of MGH, said yesterday, "Heart disease causes 700,000 deaths in this country with transplants being the solution in only a miniscule number of cases," he said, adding, "It is not a major social issue. At the same time it extracts a major social cost...
...decision came after ten months of debate and a nearly unanimous decision by the hospital's General executive Committee, its medical leadership, to approve a proposal to perform six transplant operations each year. W. Gerald Austen, MGH Chief of Surgery, refused to comment on the issue...
Edgar Haber, professor of Medicine and an associate of MGH, said that an increase in the availability of hearts, a method of overcoming organ rejection and better mechanical ways for keeping people alive while they wait for hearts could lead to a reversal of the decision