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Schwenk, who trained as a pathologist at Columbia University, ran a program in preventative medicine from 1977 to 1980 in Hershey, Penn., under the auspices of the American Heart Association...
...Jack Kevorkian has spent much of his medical life searching for ways to make better use of human bodies, especially dead ones. Thirty years ago, as a young pathologist in Pontiac, Michigan, he became the first doctor to transfuse blood directly from a corpse into a live patient. He marveled at the possible uses -- on battlefields, for instance, or during a natural disaster -- and lamented the fact that public distaste for the procedure would probably preclude its clinical acceptance...
...must always be safeguards -- second opinions from disinterested doctors, psychological evaluations, family consultations -- before any decision is made. Though Kevorkian is adamant about the precautions he takes, his enthusiasm for testing new techniques and promoting his cause has naturally raised concerns about his neutrality in counseling potential clients. A pathologist by training, he is not in the best position to make a judgment about patients when they are still alive...
Mystified, Baylor University physician Donald Anderson and Harvard pathologist Timothy Springer decided to test the child's white cells to see how sticky they were. "There was absolutely no binding at all," says Anderson. A new disease had been discovered: leukocyte-adhesion deficiency. Unable to produce the CAMs that enable leukocytes to stick where they are needed, these rescue cells were sliding past Brooke's wounds like a convoy of ambulances with no brakes. "This child can't heal a paper cut," says Brooke's mother Bonnie. For now, her daughter's life remains a continuous battle against infection, though...
Noting that the state of Michigan has no law barring physician-assisted suicide, a judge in Pontiac dismissed murder charges against Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, for his role in the death of two chronically ill women in 1991. Though the state senate has passed a bill that would make assisted suicide a felony, the house has yet to follow suit. "We have more consumer protection for people buying a car than we do for people making this type of decision," says state senator Fred Dillingham, the bill's sponsor...