Word: barney
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Organizers in Boston and nationwide seek to raise awareness in the Boston area about apartheid, the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn, a protest leader, said Sunday at an Old South Church rally attended by 200 people. Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and U.S. Congressmen John Conyers and Barney Frank also addressed the meeting...
...there are many ways of practicing triage. One of the simplest, quite possibly illegal, is by age. One reason both Barney Clark and William Schroeder wanted artificial hearts was that they were both over 50, the unofficial cutoff point for heart transplants. Schroeder had been rejected three times. A more ambiguous standard is the idea that doctors should decide on their own who is best suited for high-tech treatment. But who should get preference?the most sick or the least sick...
From the beginning, Schroeder's treatment seemed to go more smoothly than that of his predecessor, Seattle Dentist Barney Clark, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Clark's surgery and his 112 days of life with the man-made pump were fraught with life-and-death crises. "I felt certain that he would die on the operating table," reflected Dr. Robert Jarvik, 38, designer of the Jarvik-7 heart used in both patients. This time, he said, "I felt the opposite...
...week that he will worry for as long as Schroeder lives about the risk of infection, which is a greater problem for diabetics, or about a breakdown in the equipment. "We live on the edge of possible disaster at any time," he said. By applying the lessons learned from Barney Clark, DeVries hopes that certain earlier calamities can be avoided. For example, because Clark's brain seizures were attributed to the sudden increase in blood circulation following surgery, doctors are taking a more gradual approach to increasing Schroeder's heart rate. In addition, since one of the valves...
...field of medicine. Its Heart Institute had been open less than a year when the company decided in June to work on the mechanical heart. Institute Director Allan Lansing, an open-heart surgeon, had told Jones that Dr. William DeVries, who performed the first permanent artificial-heart implant, on Barney Clark at the University of Utah in 1982, might be willing to come to Louisville to pursue his research...