Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering the implant were ready for intensive care. Any physician walking into the press center would have prescribed immediate bed rest...
...limit set by most heart-transplant centers. Second, like 12 million other Americans, he suffers from diabetes, which is also grounds for disqualification. "If he received a transplant, the antirejection drugs would just throw his diabetes out of control," noted Dr. J.P. Salb, the Schroeders' family physician. It was Salb, along with Schroeder's cardiologist, Dr. Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center...
...home, Jones asked DeVries, "How many hearts do you need to find out if it works? Would ten be enough?" As a flabbergasted DeVries indicated that ten would be good, Jones added, "If ten's enough, we'll give you 100." That sealed the deal. The research physician's dream of having ample resources and a free hand had come true. Says Jones: "Dr. Lansing told us that Dr. DeVries was unhappy because he had to spend so much time fund raising. I told Dr. Lansing we could handle that problem easily...
...Secretary of Education, T.H. Bell, and his Attorney General, William French Smith, have planned to leave for some time, but the bulk of his Cabinet will carry on. Reagan's physician, Daniel Ruge, has been training a replacement, Los Angeles Physician Burton Smith, for more than a year. There will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...
...about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when summoned to the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal in 1946. Research showed that the award's namesake and the Nazi physician were the same man, and Spiro launched a protest to publicize the truth about Eppinger. Says he: "This is a matter I could not let rest...