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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...
...other, less widely used implant is an inflatable prosthesis, developed in 1973 by Baylor University Urologist F. Brantley Scott, Neurologist William Bradley and Bioengineer Gerald Timm. It too requires only a short operation, usually about an hour and a half. Through an incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection...
...researchers, Dr. Albert M. Galaburda, a neurologist, and Dr. Thomas L. Kemper, a neuropathologist, studied the brain of a 20-year-old dyslexic, who died in an accident, and found structural abnormalities in the language center, part of the left hemisphere of the brain...
...duty to defend it. If we don't fulfill these tasks, we are insensitive. Worse, he labels as brain-damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense of order in the patient is an expression of his impoverishment with respect to an essentially human trait: the capacity for adequate shifting of attitude...
Tracing McIlroy's hospital visits was obviously a labor of love for Neurologist C.A. Pallis of Hammersmith Hospital and Rheumatologist A.N. Bamji of Middlesex Hospital. In their report to the British Medical Journal, they meticulously listed the 22 surnames and eight first names used in various combinations by Mcllroy in registering at different hospitals. (Mcllroy was identified by the description in clinical records of his scars and other physical characteristics.) The names of all the hospitals and the number of admittances to each were also faithfully recorded...