Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retired Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg lived longer than any other heart-transplant patient, 191 months. But last week his 22-year-old daughter Jill belittled her father's borrowed time and blasted the operation and Surgeon Christiaan Barnard. "I personally think heart transplants are not worthwhile. I saw my father suffer." She blamed Dr. Barnard for urging the family to make money out of the operation. The resultant publicity, she said, "set my life back by more than two years...
...surgery instead of straying into gynecology. Said Yale's Dr. Nathan Kase: "I don't think menopause is necessarily as common a disruption as, let's say, a headache." Whatever hormonal imbalances occur can be treated with medication, much like diabetes. But Berman, an early heart-transplant experimenter, soon drew blood again. He termed the Mink letter to Humphrey "a typical example of an ordinarily controlled woman under the raging hormonal imbalance of the periodical lunar cycle...
...Identity Transplant. For Blum, the dark powers are impenetrable bureaucracies, military cabals and value-neutral scientists on both sides of the ideological curtain. He sees them as threatening to rob men's souls by corrupting their memories and feelings...
...identity transplant involves taping and filming scenes from Home's life and then electronically piping them into the head of 233/4, as the receptacle is officially known. Around the shop he is called Black Bear. Before the procedure is completed, however, cautious management decides to cut all of Home's post-Korean memories from the input. Instead of a research scientist stuffed with secrets, Black Bear is to be made into a minor scholar of Slavic literature, which is Home's avocation...
...book ends with Washkansky's death, after only 18 days of new life, and Barnard's undaunted response: "I'm going to America and appear on Face the Nation. I'm going to face the world -and then come back and do a transplant on Dr. Blaiberg...