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...only long-term survivor with another man's lung but with his own heart has been Alois Vereecken, a Belgian metalworker who lived ten months after a 1968 transplant. Edward Falk quickly regained consciousness, his new lungs took up their work of oxygenation, and at week's end his condition was described as good...
Tommy Strunk, a 28-year-old Kentucky railroad worker, was slowly dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
When the boys' mother asked a court to authorize the transplant operation, the guardian appointed by the state to represent Jerry in the case objected. The state, he argued, had no power to approve the removal of an organ from a mental incompetent. Even so, the court approved the surgery on the ground that Jerry's well-being "would be jeopardized more severely by the loss of his brother than the removal of a kidney...
...ANTIBODIES by Peter Baker. 377 pages. Putnam. $6.95. A transparent and pedestrian attempt to make the bestseller list, using the theme of medical malpractice in transplant surgery...
...lavish with four-letter words. This is the largesse of an impoverished mind. It is a hair transplant on a would-be manly chest...