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...procedure are of more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded his operation...
...joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty after a typhoid epidemic killed more than 50 inmates at a state mental hos pital. Shapiro has been an impassioned crusader for mental health ever since. After antisubmarine duty as a naval officer in World War II, he served seven terms in the legislature before being picked to run with Kerner...
Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital were cautiously reducing the doses of immunosuppressives-his moonfaced appearance was a sign of cortisonism-and they hoped soon to be able to cut down his checkup visits to one a week. Blaiberg was writing a diary for daily newspaper syndication, and his wife Eileen, fresh from a crash course...
...routine call for the Beacon Ambulance Service of Fort Lauderdale. No sirens, no red lights, just an old man dead on arrival at the Florida hos pital. The autopsy revealed "peritonitis, secondary to acute gangrenous appendicitis, ruptured." Only an uncommonly tough character could have endured such pain so long and without any relief through drugs or antibiotics. Indeed, the manner of Joe Martin's departure from life was entirely consistent with the way in which he had always conducted it. The former Republican Speaker of the House, dead last week at the age of 83, had never had much...
...learned nothing," he said. "There is no area of equipment or research or in strumentation that comes close to that in the United States. I saw no hospital or institute as well equipped as any hos pital or institute...