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...expenses of $250,000 before getting a liver transplant, Starzl points out. Nevertheless, the prices of organ transplants remain staggering: heart transplants cost somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 (Clark's hospital bill was $200,000, not counting $9,000 for the artificial heart, $7,400 for its pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have cost him to run the system if he had survived). The prices for other organs are comparable. A liver transplant costs $135,000, and a year of rehabilitation treatment can double that. Bone-marrow transplants...
Organ transplants are by no means the only miracle cures provided by high-tech medicine. A hemophiliac's Autoplex injections, which stimulate blood coagulation, can cost up to $100,000 to keep him alive for three months. Dialysis machines for kidney patients, which pump the blood through an artificial cleansing device, cost nearly $20,000 per year...
From the beginning, Schroeder's treatment seemed to go more smoothly than that of his predecessor, Seattle Dentist Barney Clark, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Clark's surgery and his 112 days of life with the man-made pump were fraught with life-and-death crises. "I felt certain that he would die on the operating table," reflected Dr. Robert Jarvik, 38, designer of the Jarvik-7 heart used in both patients. This time, he said, "I felt the opposite...
...other changes in equipment have been made: the heart's drive system, though still unwieldy, is 52 Ibs. lighter than it was two years ago. Better yet, the new portable pump system may eventually free Schroeder from the contraption for several hours every day. "I think it's the beginning of the end of the view of the artificial heart as a cumbersome device that doesn't give people the type of life they really need," observed Jarvik after the first successful use of the device. According to Jarvik, other improvements in the technology...
...species had been broken, some principle of separateness between man and animal violated. Indeed, it is a blow to man's idea of himself to think that a piece of plastic or animal tissue may occupy the seat of the emotions and perform perfectly well (albeit as a pump). It is biological Galileism, and just as humbling. Nevertheless it is fact. To deny it is sentimentality. And to deny life to a child in order to preserve the fiction of man's biological uniqueness is simple cruelty...