Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touring French Singer Francoise Hardy signed autographs for the crowd in Johannesburg, but she was only a spectator herself, waiting outside Groote Schuur Hospital for Philip Blaiberg, 58, world's only living heart-transplant patient. With Surgeon Christiaan Barnard looking on from the doorway, and Wife Elaine at his elbow, Blaiberg took his first breath of fresh air after 74 days in germ-free isolation, then walked to a limousine that carried him home. Ahead lay a careful, publicity-free regimen at his apartment in the suburb of Wynberg, with no visitors for a month, no telephone calls...
When Comrade Mao calls for a hard sell, his patient peons try their darndest to produce paeans, and so in addition to Mao-think and Mao-speak, the Orient is now being flooded with Mao-carve. On display in Hong Kong are 1,000 statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly...
...point, Dr. Belzer emphasizes, is not to see how long a kidney can be kept, but to give the surgeon more time to do his job better. Most transplants are now performed as emergencies, when a donor becomes available for a patient who has been kept waiting for weeks in the hospital. Belzer's machine, which costs $8,000, gives doctors ample time to do thorough testing of blood and tissue types, and to leave the patient at home until they are sure they have the right match. Such a machine should make it possible for surgeons...
...trouble with heparin and some other anticoagulants is that they not only prevent clotting, but may overshoot the mark and make a patient liable to hemorrhage. Doctors in Malaya, treating victims of pit viper bites, noticed that they never seemed to have trouble with clots, and neither did they bleed excessively. Years of research to purify the active part of the venom yielded a substance named Arvin by London's Twyford Laboratories. Now, reports in the Lancet testify to the potential of Arvin, given intravenously...
After twelve long hours of heart transplant surgery yesterday, doctors at Boston's Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic listed their world-famous patient in "marginal condition." Chief surgeon Dr. Amos P. Goy expressed hope the Ibis would survive, but cautioned that "one can't measure these operations purely in terms of success or failure." Dr. Goy, who in 13 previous attempts kept transplant patients alive an aggregate total of 19 minutes, said a more definite report would be possible by this afternoon...