Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effect, Oregon is promising to provide universal coverage in exchange for a system of financial triage. A child will get a liver transplant; a chronic alcoholic will not. An AIDS sufferer will get treatment in the early stages of his illness but in the terminal stages will get only "comfort care." The plan would not pay for so-called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning...
...social issue, front-page crime or family trauma, and somebody is thrashing it out on a TV talk show. A listing of typical topics is a surrealistic blur of human misery, sideshow voyeurism and sheer lunacy: illegitimate kids who found their natural parents but wish they hadn't; transplant recipients who claim to have adopted the personalities of their donors; women who have been raped by the same man more than once; guys who like overweight gals; mothers-in-law from hell; doctors with AIDS; crack addicts with babies; celebrities with books. Next Donahue, next Donahue, next Donahue...
...There is one place, however, where the surname Gambino gets respect: Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., which has received a $2 million gift from Thomas and Joseph Gambino in memory of their late father Carlo. The money is funding a + pediatric bone-marrow-transplant unit, the only such facility in the state. When it opens, it will bear the Gambino name...
...Schneider officials take a practical view. "Our mission," says a spokeswoman, "is to save lives." The father of a future patient puts the issue more starkly: "I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I have a daughter who will die if she doesn't get a transplant...
...seriously as those of whites. In one study, researchers found that, regardless of income, blacks are half as likely as whites to receive bypass operations for their heart problems. Another investigation revealed that among patients undergoing dialysis for kidney disease, whites are 33% more likely to get a kidney transplant. A third study showed that blacks who were hospitalized for pneumonia received less-intensive treatment than whites...