Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, as Cardiac Surgeon Jack Copeland was examining his patient in the sixth-floor intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, he noticed that Drummond was slurring his words. Soon afterward, the patient's right hand became immobile. Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming...
Drummond's stroke-caused crisis cast doubt on a new phase in the artificial heart program, one with a more limited and, to many, a more realistic goal: to use the mechanical device not as a permanent implant but only as a bridge, keeping a seriously ill heart patient alive until a human donor heart can be found. The Food and Drug Administration had authorized Copeland to use the Jarvik-7 for that purpose only a few weeks before, and has since granted permission to a handful of other surgeons. "We're not really doing this in an attempt...
...five patients who have so far received permanent Jarvik-7 hearts, three are still alive. But all have suffered serious complications. William Schroeder, 53, at 42 weeks the longest survivor, has had two strokes; his speech and memory are impaired. Murray Haydon, 59, also had a stroke. Swedish Businessman Leif Stenberg, 53, the only non-American to receive a Jarvik-7 and the patient who had fared the best so far, recently suffered a severe stroke in Stockholm. Stenberg's misfortune was particularly disappointing to Heart Developer Robert Jarvik; the heart implanted in the Swede was a newer version...
...over the subject of U.S. policy in South Africa. Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, argued that withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa in an effort to coerce the country into abandoning apartheid would do more harm than good. Said he: "We can cut out the cancer without killing the patient." Jackson, head of Operation Push, was less sanguine. "With increased investment in apartheid," he maintained, "the rope around the necks of the people appears to be getting tighter as opposed to looser." The on-camera conversation was heated, but once the lights were off, piety and politics took over. Falwell...
...school, but few if any are actually in classrooms. In Los Angeles the policy has yet to be enforced. Says Associate Superintendent Jerry Halverson: "There has been an agreement and understanding that children with AIDS would not be enrolled in school, predicated almost entirely on the welfare of the patient." In New York City, a special panel made up of health experts, an educator and a parent will decide before school starts whether each of seven children who have AIDS should be placed in classrooms...