Word: spleening
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...outskirts of Cairo. As helicopters whirred overhead, 100 machine gun-toting soldiers cordoned off the seven-story concrete building, refusing to admit even the relatives of other patients. Inside, a team of 20 doctors labored to foster the ousted monarch's recovery from emergency surgery on his cancerous spleen. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak reports on the tense medical vigil...
Once again, the deposed Shah of Iran was on the move. On Sunday, a spokesman for Panama's air force said that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, ailing from an enlarged spleen and a form of lymphatic cancer, had left the country aboard a chartered DC-8. His destination: Cairo, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had made an open-ended offer of sanctuary. The Shah's flight from Panama, his home in exile since December, could create internal difficulties for Sadat, whose regime is being criticized by Muslim zealots sympathetic to the Iranian revolution. The departure would also complicate...
...Shah left Panama only two days after the arrival of White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler. Ostensibly, they had flown to Panama City to arbitrate a dispute between Panamanian and American surgeons over who should remove the Shah's spleen. Two weeks ago, his international team of physicians had decided that surgery was essential. Flown to Panama City from his home in exile on nearby Contadora Island, the Shah checked into the Paitilla Medical Center, a modern private hospital. At the same time, the Shah's aides summoned Heart Surgeon Michael...
...some of his Texas colleagues reportedly expressed the alarmist view to the State Department that the Paitilla Center lacked the equipment and support personnel needed for the spleen operation. Several of the doctors are said to have advised removal of the Shah to a large U.S. medical center, or at least to Gorgas Hospital, a well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were...
...surgeon chosen to operate on the Shah's spleen was one of the world's most celebrated heart specialists, Michael DeBakey, president of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. DeBakey was selected because the surgery, which is normally not a difficult or life-threatening operation, might lead to cardiovascular complications. At week's end DeBakey flew to Panama with a team of five assistants; Panamanian medical authorities said that the visiting specialist could examine his royal patient, but were holding up permission for DeBakey to perform the surgery...