Word: transplanters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transplanting human hearts is a family business in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, is famous for performing the world's first one in 1967 as well as seven others since then. Barnard's chief assistant in all of them was his kid brother-quiet, unassuming Dr. Marius Barnard, 44. Now Marius has completed his own first heart transplant, and Patient John Montgomery is progressing "exceptionally well." Off on a South American cruise with his young wife and baby, Brother Chris cabled congratulations: "I couldn't be more proud if I had done the operation...
...necessitated the removal of the organ. Now, in order to prevent a fatal buildup of toxins in his blood, he must report to the university hospital three times a week for kidney dialysis, a six-hour cleansing process that enables him to survive until he can get a kidney transplant. Since his illness wiped out his small savings, Shevlin lives on welfare payments of $178 a month, while the State of California pays for most of the cost of his treatments -which amounts to $3,000 a month...
...Transplant Bargain. Some doctors see home dialysis as a solution. This costs $15,000 in the first year, when equipment must be purchased, but drops to about $5,000 a year thereafter. Home dialysis requires training in the use of the machine, however, and adjustment to the long hours of self-treatment. "This machine ruins your ego completely," says Dr. Eugene Hoffman Sr., senior medical adviser to Blue Cross of Southern California. "People who use it have nothing else to hang...
Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town...
...Hearts, Thomas Thompson tells the story of these two master surgeons, concentrating on their unsuccessful but dramatic experiments with the heart transplant, an operation first executed by South Africa's Dr. Christiaan Barnard. Thompson, a Texan and a staff writer for LIFE, spent several months in Houston last year after the transplant frenzy had subsided. He made rounds with DeBakey, Cooley and their entourages, donned surgical green to watch operations, and talked with dozens of doctors and patients. He has put together a somewhat disjointed but compelling account of a rarefied sphere in the world of medicine...