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...rush among surgeons to join "the me-too brigade." Many surgeons concede that by no means were all of the 36 medical centers in 16 countries that have tried transplants well-enough staffed or equipped to do so. Yet despite all the failures, Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other man, defends the operations. He points to what happened after early, unsuccessful attempts at heart-valve surgery in the 1920s: "Because of a few initial failures, no further surgery inside the heart was done for 20 years. Those years were lost...
Concurring completely was Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has seven recipients surviving. The only note of caution was sounded by Mississippi's Dr. James D. Hardy,*who said that it might take a while to persuade certain segments of the public that the procedure is morally permissible...
...they could do better. Why Cape Town? Explained Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz: "Chris Barnard has been doing it better than all of us-that's why we are here." Barnard's aura was rivaled by the authority of Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley, who has three surviving patients, including one who is going back to work...
...donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed sessions in Cape Town, all that Spokesman Cooley could say was: "We have reached some agreement as to the nature of brain death...
...survival. But can a doctor, in good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley, "We did not establish definite criteria...