Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second ethical-medical question was: How to select the recipient for a transplant? Most operations so far have been performed on men with advanced and long-standing heart disease. In such cases, it seems that a new heart may be wasted on a patient with negligible chances of survival. But can a doctor, in good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley...
Amid gossip of a second heart transplant for South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 59, there arose a question of propriety. Mrs. Dorothy Haupt, 22, whose husband was the donor of the heart Dr. Blaiberg is using, said if he gives it up, she wants it back. Why? Because a spiritualist said her dead husband could not rest without his heart. If the heart is returned, Mrs. Haupt plans to bury it in her husband's grave. "I would do it myself," she said...
Ever since the first heart transplant last December, the timing of such operations has been a source of much medical dispute. But few transplants are likely to trigger the controversy that surrounded the 17th, performed in Brazil at Sao Paulo's Hospital das Clinicas last week by Heart Surgeon Euriclides de Jesus Zerbini...
Following the transplant, the common-law wife of the donor, Janitor Luis Ferreira de Barros, 41, arrived at the hospital. When she found out what had happened, she threatened to sue the doctors for removing the heart without permission. She may yet have her day in court. Presently, a bill to legalize such quick transplants is stalled in the Brazilian legislature. Cause for the delay: a proposed provision for assigning mistresses priority over parents, brothers and sisters in granting permission for heart removals. ∙∙∙ The day before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson...
...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...