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...Harvard professor is suing two Harvard teaching hospitals, charging them with age and disability discrimination after they released him from his administrative responsibilities as chief of organ transplant programs last April...
...major issue is a surgeon, world-renowned and nationally-renowned who has developed the kidney transplant program at the Deaconess Hospital for the past 27 years, and he has just been given by Harvard a full professorship of immunology," said Anthony I. Sahyoun, assistant clinical professor of surgery. "Suddenly, he finds himself being pushed out by a young person at the hospital who is ambitious...
Peter N. Madras, a transplant surgeon at Deaconess and associate professor of surgery, who along with Sahyoun is an instructor in the class that Monaco directs, said the hospital's actions are incomprehensible...
...Monaco is an outstanding, internationally-recognized transplant surgeon," said Madras. "There's no credible reason in the world for him to be displaced, and he's fighting the displacement. It's not as if anyone has come up with any charges of incompetence or inadequate patient care...
...affected by the disease more often than any other racial group) has proved, for complex genetic reasons, especially difficult. The technique could also boost the damaged immune systems of AIDS patients, provided scientists first find a way to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the AIDS virus within the transplant candidate. "If the virus could be controlled," says Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, one of the study's coauthors, "the immune system could be replaced...