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...administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient [NATION, Dec. 7], Dr. Jack Kevorkian should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In his stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly breathe and struggled desperately. A medical technician repeatedly came by to see me, and at one point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects...
...June, Webheads got to watch a live birth online. This Wednesday, the American Health Network is again testing the limits of public acceptance, by broadcasting an open-heart operation live on its website, www.ahn.com In the name of educating the country about heart disease, the cable channel will let viewers observe surgeons operate at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston at 2 p.m. E.T. Not for the faint of heart...
...study was motivated by Hiramatsu's 1996 discovery of vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in a four-month-old male infant suffering from staphylococcus aureus infection after open-heart surgery. The patient failed to respond to vancomycin therapy and was cured only with a combination of other antibiotics. The strain was named Mu50 and became known as the world's first case of VRSA...
...know firsthand about the terrifying experience of "awareness" during surgery, having gone through it during open-heart surgery in 1977. As a psychiatrist, I work with patients with a variety of post-traumatic-stress disorders arising from car accidents, physical abuse and other traumas. The new device that can monitor the patient's brain waves and alert the medical staff if there is a potentially dangerous state of awareness will save the sanity of many surgical patients. But many of those who experienced such a trauma long ago may not even realize that surgery was the cause of present stress...
...medical point of view, there are no technical barriers to performing bloodless surgeries," says Dr. Sharo Raissi, a cardiac surgeon at Brotman Medical Center, one of a dozen hospitals in Los Angeles that offer such services. "There is no limit as to what can be done for patients, from open-heart surgery even to transplants...