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...Howard Tucker, 45, had not felt so well in years. Member of a family in which mother, sister and an uncle had died from polycystic kidneys,* she herself was the first patient to receive healthy kidney transplanted from the body of another woman who had just died (TIME, July 3). Nearing the anniversary of her landmark operation, Rut Tucker had gained 20 Ibs., was doing her own housework, even to washing & ironing, and going out evenings, full of pe. Then the blow fell...
Hazelnut Size. Said McNulty: the operation was a failure. The grafted kidney was not functioning and never had. It had shrunk, he said, to the size of a hazelnut. The reason, Dr. McNulty said, was that the donor's tissues were incompatible with Mrs. Tucker's. His statements were given to reporters, and one of them phoned Mrs. Tucker...
Says Mrs. Tucker: "If I had a weak heart, this shocking news would have killed me. What a way to get your death sentence-from a newspaper reporter! But Mrs. Tucker refused to take the word as a death sentence. "The doctors have always told me everything because they know I can take bad news," she said. "Why would they build me up to this letdown...
More Mad Than Anything. The last time Surgeon Lawler checked on the transplanted kidney was April 1, when he performed a follow-up operation to widen the ureter where it was being narrowed by scar tissue. He told Mrs. Tucker then that he was well satisfied with it, hoped that it would work so well that her own remaining kidney, which is also diseased, could be removed later. Back from Europe, where he heard about three human kidney transplants, made since his operation, Surgeon Lawler was keeping his mouth shut last week. He was expecting to publish his own report...
...Knew Freud Few psychiatrists ever took Sigmund Freud as calmly as did James Tucker Fisher. Perhaps it was his background. Fisher spent the best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...