Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation took more than eight hours-longest of the five heart transplants so far performed. When it was over, the exhausted Kantrowitz said realistically: "I don't think any heart transplant can be considered a success until the patient goes home." Eight hours later, Block died...
...patient who seemed to get along best with his transplanted heart was former Dentist Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town, Dr. Barnard's second recipient. Eleven days after the operation, Blaiberg, 58, was sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs like a schoolboy. This was not mere bravado, but was designed to help his circulation. He drank a "shandy" (beer and lemonade) and sang a Brahms lullaby...
...infection such as that which killed Washkansky, he was as isolated as antiseptic ingenuity could make him. Doctors and nurses en tering his room had first to undress in one antechamber, then scrub, then mask and robe themselves in sterile garments. Warned by experience that they might have overtreated Patient Washkansky, the doctors were giving Blaiberg fewer immunosuppressive drugs and in smaller doses. "Perhaps we treated the last patient too early for rejection," Dr. Barnard said. "We are not going to make the same mistake again." Four days after the transplant, the doctors could see no sign of either infection...
When Toronto's Dr. Gordon Murray announced that he had operated on seven paralyzed patients by cutting, shortening and rejoining their spinal cords, neurosurgeons were incredulous. How could he have succeeded where so many others, equally skilled, had failed? Last week Toronto General Hospital issued a dismal and dismaying report on Dr. Murray's cases. A search of its records disclosed that in only one case had the spinal cord actually been cut, as Dr. Murray described. And this was not the case of Bertrand Proulx, whom Murray had exhibited at a fund-raising dinner (TIME...
...case, "to protect the network," Lucy Jarvis negotiated an agreement with Barnard's next patient, Philip Blaiberg, and his family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn...