Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruynzeel prepared his 53-ft. ketch Stormy for every contingency. Unable to pack an intensive-cardiac-care unit on board because it was too heavy, he did the next best thing by adding Nurse Diana Goodliffe, 33, to the crew. A member of Dr. Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant team, she came prepared with equipment like an oscilloscope to check the pattern of Bruynzeel's heartbeat and the culinary qualifications to serve as ship's cook. Once at sea, says Bruynzeel, "Diana never forgot to give me my pills six times a day." Each evening, he never...
...when the rescuers discovered that nine bodies near the wreck had been strangely carved and mutilated in ways unrelated to a plane crash did the truth emerge. Reluctantly, the survivors admitted that they had chopped the dead flesh into small pieces and eaten it. "It was like a heart transplant," explained one of the 16. "The dead sustained the living...
...kidneys and excreted in the urine. This means that the victims face certain death unless they can do one of two things: 1) receive intermittent dialysis treatments, in which the blood is removed from the body and cleansed of most of its impurities, or 2) get a kidney transplant. Both alternatives are expensive. Dialysis can cost $25,000 or more a year; a kidney transplant costs $15,000 to $25,000. Unless they are rich, qualify for veterans' benefits, or live in states that help pay for such care, many kidney patients simply cannot afford the price of life...
...provision, which takes effect July 1, is comprehensive. It provides that if a kidney-failure victim has been paying Social Security taxes and has been on dialysis for three months, Medicare will pick up most of the hospital costs for continuing dialysis or a kidney transplant. If the individual subscribes to Part B of Medicare for $5.80 a month, the Government will pay 80% of his doctor bills...
...straight out of the 9th District's "old" political playbook, as the congresswoman stuck closely to the game plan she used in 1970 to get elected. She shied away from large political gatherings, greeting her supporters instead at informal open houses. But the Hicks machine found it difficult to transplant these informal chats into the suburban neighborhoods added to the 9th in the 1971 redistricting. On Election Night, the suburbs rejected the "old" politics...