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What the task force wants to do is pull up on the reins of a technology that saves lives and is on its way to saving more. The limiting of organ transplants to a small scale effort solves the problem of monetary drain on Medicaid. It does not, however, solve the overall problem. This ultimate resolution of expanding transplant availability, the only resolution that satisfies the strongest ethical implications of the problem, would be delayed, perhaps indefinitely, by the group's plan. What is missing is an assessment of what the constraining effects of the task force-advocated policy would...
...what some doctors might call the "good old days," almost all medical breakthroughs emanated from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved out of the limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest...
DEAN OF the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 has publicly voiced his displeasure with the recent artificial heart transplant in Louisville, Ky. Fineberg called the operation a waste of money and criticized the hospital for not maintaining a broader perspective on public health. And numerous doctors at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's and Childrens Hospitals have similarly called the Baby Fae operation premature, unresearched and a waste of valuable resources...
...Harvard and other prominent schools are to continue to lead the way in health care, they must cut their own expensive heart and liver transplant programs. Professor of Political Economy Marc S. Roberts recently estimated that heart transplants in Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals will cost as much as $200,000 apiece while liver transplants may run upwards of $300,000. Certainly the venerable doctors at Harvard could put such enormous sums to better use, and set an example for the rest of the country...
...LEAST the operations at the Humana and Loma Linda Hospitals promised some widespread application in the future, compensating for their violations of the sacred medical code of ethics. The number of organs available from organ banks in this country will never match the number of needed transplants, and experimentation with artificial and animals hearts offers some relief in this area. If the medical profession decides to continue with expensive transplant procedures despite the somewhat hypocritical warnings from Harvard, certainly research devoted to finding other sources to supplement the scarce human organ supply is wanting. In effect, Harvard has harshly criticized...