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...Bulletin ended up giving us very good coverage, which is very important," Christian said yesterday, "because the alumni see it as an organ of the University, although it is independent...
...healthy man who wants to kill himself and a sick one who wants to live but is doomed for lack of a vital organ appear to have little in common. But Psychiatrist Paul H. Blachly of the University of Oregon Medical School believes that they have something to offer each other. He advocates a "symbiotic juxtaposition" of the two-bringing them together so that the potential suicide can gain a new outlook on life by donating either blood or an organ to the person who needs it to live...
...just part of it. When Eisenhower was suffering repeated heart attacks, Blachly recalls, at least 20 people offered him their hearts; such offers frequently come from people who are looking for a way to die. But that death wish might be purged, he reasons, if the donor gives an organ that is not essential to his own life. People who donate a kidney, Blachly notes, often experience "a sustained feeling of satisfaction and of being noble," and their personal relationships frequently become more satisfying...
...Blachly's thinking is the fact that suicides decrease in wartime and other periods demanding personal sacrifice; then, he says, "the intensity of egoism and anomie is diminished as the individual participates in a common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery would give psychiatrists time to study...
...about five minutes, the machine does a job that would take a technician several hours. It also sketches out the area of the body involved and plots the paths the radiation will take to reach the affected organ. "It would be impossible for the human mind to perform the same task," says Dr. Edward Sternick, the radiation physicist who helped design the program...