Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago, I might have read about cutbacks for teaching hospitals and said, "What a shame!'' Today I am lying in a bone-marrow transplant ward in a Cleveland hospital. I have acute leukemia. As I watch the teams of dedicated doctors and nurses collaborate to make me well, as I realize all the research that has taken place to make my life and comfort possible, as I participate in studies to help others, I see that the crisis at teaching hospitals is more than "a shame'': it's a tragedy. If all the people working for Medicare...
...political point of view. When Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts stated during the 1992 presidential campaign that his lymphoma was in remission and he had been cancer free for five years, he neglected to mention at that time a single recurrence just a year after receiving a bone-marrow transplant to treat the disease. Even though the selective disclosure became a media issue after Tsongas had already quit the race, he continues to be, to this day, quite healthy...
...country is the lack of organs for the number of people who need them. Many potential recipients die while on the waiting list. UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) estimates that of 21,982 patients on the waiting list in 1990, 2,200 of them died before receiving a transplant...
...monetary compensation includes placing a potential donor higher on a list of organ recipients should he or she ever need a transplant, or providing services such as grief counseling to the families of organ donors. Although it seems a much better plan than monetary compensation, it still bears some flaws...
...publicize the nightmare of China's prison system. Using a hidden camera, he once sneaked into a Chinese tanning factory and filmed naked prisoners standing in vats of toxic chemicals. Last year, while he posed as a wealthy American searching for a kidney for a relative, the BBC filmed transplant recipients who told Wu that their organs had come from executed prisoners...