Word: schroeders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schroeder's high spirits may dim somewhat, physicians warn, as the hospital staff begins to treat him more like a "usual patient" and less like a celebrity. He will have to come to grips psychologically with being permanently tied to an air-pump system, in much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure...
...what was the mechanical device implanted in Barney Clark's ribcage? It pumped blood for four months, keeping him alive. It also raised more pressing questions than this odd psychological one, especially now that medical history's second artificial heart transplant has been performed on 52-year-old William Schroeder...
...what some doctors might call the "good old days," almost all medical breakthroughs emanated from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved out of the limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest...
...sight of William Schroeder joking with his family last week was the best possible advertisement not just for the miracles of science but for Humana, the investor-owned medical conglomerate. In the fast-growing U.S. health care industry, investor-owned companies are challenging nonprofit organizations and community hospitals for a greater share of the nearly $1 billion-a-day business. Profitmaking companies now own or manage more than 20% of all U.S. hospitals, double the percentage of five years ago. Moreover, they are moving rapidly into affiliated areas such as health maintenance organizations, satellite clinics and surgical-equipment firms...
Humana prepared for its first artificial implant with a promotion campaign as elaborate as one that General Motors might use for launching a new model. Before the Schroeder operation, Humana public relations specialists consulted with officials at the University of Utah on the press interest that might be expected. The company rented space for a press headquarters in the Commonwealth Convention Center in downtown Louisville and produced seven informational videotapes about the operation...