Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helmet secure, and rifle held smartly at port arms, Dr. Philip Blaiberg marched off to a meeting of wartime buddies for the first time since his heart transplant last year...
SURGERY'S most spectacular procedure, the transplant of a heart from one human being to another, marks its first anniversary this week. By the latest tally, 95 human hearts have been taken from newly dead donors and implanted in the chests of 93 patients (two of them got two apiece). Almost exactly half the recipients are still living, though some have received new hearts so recently that the likelihood of their survival cannot be judged, and another death is being reported almost daily. The world's record survivor has lived for just eleven months...
Today heart-valve surgery is common, and is successful for nearly 90% of patients. Transplant of the heart may never approach that record, but Dr. Cooley is "glad that heart transplantation has not been abandoned...
...women who have received heart transplants and apparently beaten the prevailing fifty-fifty odds of survival, all the technical questions are of little concern. Blaiberg drives his car, drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
Besides the workers who will be staying on, the Nixons may inherit another White House regular. Blanco, the President's sometimes shy and nervous white collie, has finally grown accustomed to the grounds, and L.B.J. is hesitant to transplant him to the nontransitional environment of Texas...