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...about using the fibula as a spare part. Important to four-legged animals, the bone is not essential to man, though the lower 30% helps to anchor the anklebone. As a result, surgeons have long used pieces of the fibula to patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases like Labollita's, where...
...occupations but not of attitude; people are more than ever the bewildered children of progress. The past year alone has produced enough scientific inventiveness to shake the spirit for a lifetime: the first baby from a frozen embryo, surrogate mothers, genetic transfers between animals, a record number of heart transplants, an animal heart transplant, another artificial heart. The central ailment of the age may simply be Arnold's writ larger...
...cost of providing artificial or transplant hearts for the 50,000 patients who need them is equivalent to that of three Trident submarines, I will do without the Tridents...
...years ago my husband received a kidney transplant. His options at the time were a transplant costing $30,000, chronic dialysis (which would have cost $100,000 thus far) or death. If he had not decided to have the transplant, I and our four young children would have received $100,000 in Social Security benefits through the years. Instead, my husband is a productive, taxpaying member of society. A $30,000 transplant has proved to be the economical choice...
...Harvard is concerned with discouraging expensive procedures with relatively few real benefits, it should take its own advice and regain its national prominence by boasting the number of lives it saves using reasonable medical practices rather than by advertising advances in the esoteric transplant field. Only then will this country realize the wastefulness of expensive operations performed in profit-and publicity-seeking hospitals...