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...during the darkest days of 1993, it is still a grinding round of poverty, hunger and dead-end jobs. Even the cradle-to-grave health, education and welfare systems, once proudly held up as the "achievements of the revolution," are badly compromised. Prostitution, that humiliating hallmark of the Batista years, is back in force; dollar legalization has undermined social equality; the centralized economy has yet to deliver basic necessities to most citizens. Unemployment, not known for decades, looms for hundreds of thousands of redundant workers. Dissidents languish in jail...
...Although Batista is best known for his heart-trimming procedure, he is taking his beliefs about size to other areas as well. Eisenmenger syndrome is a disease caused by a septal defect, or hole in the heart. As the condition progresses, fresh and deoxygenated blood begin to mix, with the latter seeping through to the body, causing pressure to build in the lungs and stretching the lung tissue. In the U.S., the defect is usually closed up right away, but in the developing world children often grow up with the hole. Until now, the solution was a heart/lung transplant, which...
...medical innovator, Batista is variably described as a madman, a genius--or both. Says Dr. Noedir Stolf, director of the surgical division of the Heart Institute in Sao Paulo: "With his many more ideas for new surgeries, Dr. Batista is likely to keep controversy alive and well in the surgical world for a long time to come...
...visit to the U.S. to present his findings to leading cardiac surgeons, Batista was rushed off to Baltimore, Md., to see a 32-year-old woman with congestive heart failure who was not expected to survive the weekend. In a moment of reflection, Batista offered a glimpse of what makes him tick: "The big thing for me is that an institution like Johns Hopkins can't do anything for this woman. And here I am, all the way from Brazil, and I have something that may be able to save her." Sadly, the woman was too sick to save...