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...sound like a somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant...
...hearts are difficult for anyone to come by; for inmates, it's even harder. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons doesn't pay for transplants. Medicare will pay -- if Murphy is released. The bureau will release Murphy -- if a doctor accepts him for the necessary pre-transplant work-up. But no doctor will take him -- unless he's released...
...when he was fired from his job as a warehouse foreman in Kansas City, Missouri, for being sick too much. Suffering from what he thought was pneumonia, he got a chest X ray, which showed that his heart was greatly enlarged. He was told he would need a transplant and placed in intensive care...
...fears that a heart attack or stroke could leave him on life support rather than kill him outright. "Serving a four-year sentence on life support," Murphy shudders. "That's scary." Ironically, his life seeps away just minutes from the Mayo Clinic, home to a world-famous heart- transplant program. "It drives me crazy," he says. He stops to breathe. "I'm sitting here dying, and there's nothin' I can do about...
...week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...