Word: schroeders
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...notion of conquering disease by positive thinking. "If the cancer spreads, despite every attempt to think positively," Angell asked, "is the patient at fault?" She pointed to remarks made by Humana Institute's Dr. Allan Lansing, who at a press conference expressed concern that Artificial Heart Recipient William Schroeder did not have the right attitude after his first stroke. The implication, she said, is that Schroeder was in some way responsible for his condition. At a time when patients are already suffering from disease, Angell concluded, "they should not be further burdened by having to accept responsibility for the outcome...
Like his predecessors, Barney Clark, William Schroeder, Murray Haydon and Swedish Patient Leif Stenberg, Burcham was a dy- ing man who gambled on the artificial heart to win a few extra months of life. "We were hoping that he would be able to live like Schroeder," said Jack B. Burcham, 41, the < patient's son, "but Dad was just too weak." (Schroeder has survived more than 150 days with his artificial heart; Barney Clark died after 112 days...
Burcham's rapid decline and death are the latest in a series of disappointments and unforeseen disasters that have plagued the artificial- heart program. Both Clark and Schroeder, who is now living in a specially equipped apartment across the street from the hospital, suffered serious neurological problems that left them mentally impaired. Haydon, who was hailed two months ago at the time of surgery as the best implant candidate of all, has yet to be weaned from a respirator. At the Louisville conference, DeVries for the first time publicly presented his most recent findings on the array of complications associated...
...most vexing problems in implant patients is bleeding. The loss of blood is especially hard to manage, DeVries noted, because patients face the equal and opposite threat of too much clotting. (Blood clots forming in the vicinity of the artificial heart are suspected of having caused Schroeder's strokes.) Said DeVries: "The tightrope that we walk between over- and undercoagulation will have to be examined again a little closer...
RECOVERING. William J. Schroeder, 53, artificial-heart recipient who at week's end had survived a record 133 days since the implant, 21 days longer than Barney Clark in 1983; in a special "transition apartment" to which he was moved last Saturday from Humana Hospital across the street, after making steady progress in recent weeks; in Louisville...