Word: paitilla
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...arbitrate a dispute between Panamanian and American surgeons over who should remove the Shah's spleen. Two weeks ago, his international team of physicians had decided that surgery was essential. Flown to Panama City from his home in exile on nearby Contadora Island, the Shah checked into the Paitilla Medical Center, a modern private hospital. At the same time, the Shah's aides summoned Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey from Houston to perform the operation, which could involve serious cardiovascular complications. When DeBakey arrived in Panama City with five assistants, he was barred from operating. Panamanian doctors...
...some of his Texas colleagues reportedly expressed the alarmist view to the State Department that the Paitilla Center lacked the equipment and support personnel needed for the spleen operation. Several of the doctors are said to have advised removal of the Shah to a large U.S. medical center, or at least to Gorgas Hospital, a well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were...
...operation will take place at Panama's most exclusive private clinic, the Paitilla Medical Center-roughly 35 miles from the Shah's rented home in exile on Contadora Island. At week's end the monarch moved into a suite of six rooms and a solarium in the modernistic, whitewashed hospital, which offers a breathtaking view of the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Gorgas Hospital, still operated by the U.S. military in the former Canal Zone, is one of the best-equipped medical facilities in Central America. But the Shah had not requested to be admitted there...
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