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Rina Spence, president of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., estimates that the bill for Schroeder's operation represents 790 days of hospital care at her hospital, or full treatment for 113 patients for an average stay of a week. "That's what is in the balance," she says sternly...
...there are many ways of practicing triage. One of the simplest, quite possibly illegal, is by age. One reason both Barney Clark and William Schroeder wanted artificial hearts was that they were both over 50, the unofficial cutoff point for heart transplants. Schroeder had been rejected three times. A more ambiguous standard is the idea that doctors should decide on their own who is best suited for high-tech treatment. But who should get preference?the most sick or the least sick...
...Schroeder's joviality and fast recovery astound his doctors...
...metal-and-plastic heart whirred and clicked in an eerie, mechanical rhythm as Dr. William DeVries, 40, removed the tracheal tube from his patient's throat. For the first time since his artificial heart had been implanted about 36 hours earlier, William Schroeder, 52, could breathe on his own and speak. "Can I get you something to drink?" the doctor asked. Replied Schroeder: "I'd like a beer." It was, DeVries admitted afterward, one of the high points of the tension-filled hours following his second successful attempt to implant an artificial heart...
...Schroeder had to settle for a glass of ice chips, but that did not dampen his spirits. Later he demanded to know the time. "Six o'clock," replied DeVries. Schroeder looked skeptically at the lanky surgeon who had saved his life, pointed to a clock on the wall and wagged a finger. Wrong, he said. The clock showed that it was only five minutes before the hour...