Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeks feel that the ex-colonels will step aside in favor of a representative government-though they may form their own party and permit elections if they think they are fairly certain of winning. Right now, talk of elections is extremely vague. Says Premier Papadopoulos: "You are asking the surgeon to plan out the patient's summer vacation two years-hence, while he is still strapped to the surgical table...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Human Heart." Walter Cronkite questions South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and other heart specialists on the moral and legal implications of transplanting human organs. Surviving heart patients, including Dr. Philip Blaiberg, will appear...
Virtually everyone involved in the transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...
...tempts made to suppress it? After studying microscopic sections of the transplanted heart, Dr. Barnard said they showed only minimal evidence of rejection. But on the basis of a similar set of heart-tissue samples, a distinguished transplant team at London's Hammersmith Hospital, headed by Surgeon William J. Dempster, said that it found signs of "a moderately severe rejection reaction-more than just minimal." American pathologists who saw Barnard's slides were divided in their judgments. However the reaction is graded, its cause is still debatable. Some authorities blame nature's immune mechanism; others, the heavy...
...point, Dr. Belzer emphasizes, is not to see how long a kidney can be kept, but to give the surgeon more time to do his job better. Most transplants are now performed as emergencies, when a donor becomes available for a patient who has been kept waiting for weeks in the hospital. Belzer's machine, which costs $8,000, gives doctors ample time to do thorough testing of blood and tissue types, and to leave the patient at home until they are sure they have the right match. Such a machine should make it possible for surgeons...