Word: neurologists
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DIED. Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, 79, New Zealand-born neurologist, who as a professor at Harvard and chief neurologist at Boston City Hospital made pioneering contributions to research on the human nervous system, including the first description of degenerative changes in nerves that result in cases of widespread cancer, and the theory that an insufficient supply of blood to the brain can lead to strokes; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass...
Doctors in Britain, including Neurologist Bryan Jennett and Surgeon Robert Sells, who were interviewed on the program, are crying foul. In a barrage of letters to newspapers and medical journals, they claim, with some justice, that the show distorted facts. They point out that brain-death codes were set up not to ease transplants but to spare families draining bedside vigils. Says Jennett: "Only one in eight or nine patients taken off respirators ever becomes a donor...
...American patients, none could have been declared brain dead by the criteria set up in British or American codes. Doctors must first exclude certain conditions such as drug overdoses, which may mimic death but are reversible. Indeed, there is some confusion over the American cases cited. Neurologist Fred Plum of New York Hospital, who was interviewed for the program, stresses that the patient he discussed was never officially declared brain dead...