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...source of the passions, of the emotions, 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...
...press conferences last week, a young woman named Theresa Garrison sat wearing a T shirt that said HELP US HELP AMIE LIVE. Amie Garrison, 5, of Clarksville, Ind., was born without bile ducts, which drain bile out of the liver, and she will die unless she gets a liver transplant. A country-and-western band has so far helped raise $20,000, but the Garrisons also need publicity to find a liver donor. Both Indiana Senators are assisting. To further promote Amie's cause, the Garrisons hope she can join President Reagan in lighting the national Christmas tree next week...
...terms of the poor, the comparisons look even worse. "We are not giving basic medical care to people in the inner cities," says Tom Preston, chief of cardiology at the Pacific Medical Center in Seattle. A liver transplant of the kind that little Amie Garrison needs would finance a year's operation by a San Francisco inner-city clinic that provides 30,000 office visits in that time. Says Harmon Smith, a professor of moral theology at Duke: "I don't understand the fascination with these absurd, bizarre experiments when we have babies born every...
...wealthy Briton who does not want to wait in the National Health Service queue can have a private transplant operation for a reported $13,000. In the U.S. too, and in most of the world, money may not buy health, but it certainly helps...
Ordinarily a man in this condition might be a candidate for a heart transplant, but Schroeder had two strikes against him. First, at 52, he was two years over the age limit set by most heart-transplant centers. Second, like 12 million other Americans, he suffers from diabetes, which is also grounds for disqualification. "If he received a transplant, the antirejection drugs would just throw his diabetes out of control," noted Dr. J.P. Salb, the Schroeders' family physician. It was Salb, along with Schroeder's cardiologist, Dr. Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility...