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...subject to federal guidelines covering human experimentation. He explained that these guidelines stipulate that "if experiments are going to be carried out on man, every effort must be made to ensure that the experiment is safely conceived, that the procedure is done with the informed consent of the patient, and that scientific and ethical matters involved be reviewed by scientists and physicians at the hospital not themselves involved in the experiments...
Originally, Cooley had estimated that the patient might be able to live as long as a month with the artificial heart. When the question was repeated later in the week, however, his reply was more circumspect. "I don't know," he said. "This is a human being we're working with." As a result of the furor provoked by the Karp case and the still unresolved questions of procedure and ethics, heart surgeons are likely to be extremely hesitant before they try to duplicate Dr. Cooley's desperate...
With the growing array of plug-in appliances in the average U.S. home, the danger of electrical shock is considerable. In hospitals, the hazard is often far greater. And the sicker the patient is, the greater the danger, for he is likely to be wired to a battery of electronic monitoring and assistance devices. Yet while most household devices from irons and toasters to dishwashers come with a little tag reading "UL [for Underwriters' Laboratories] Approved," there is no comparable standard of approval for hospital equipment...
...bring full justice and equality to black people is the historic assignment of this generation. The problems will be resolved not by violence or hatred or bitterness or police suppression, but only by patient, determined efforts on the part of the great, politically moderate majority of whites and blacks...
Although Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley has transplanted more human hearts than any other surgeon, he still finds them in short supply. So last week he implanted the world's first completely artificial heart as a stopgap measure while he and the patient waited for a suitable heart donor...