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> caught up in the surgeon's desire to make a name for himself. Clinical trials often give people a ray of hope and I would imagine this trial was done without
by johntiger1 3y ago
> caught up in the surgeon's desire to make a name for himself.
Clinical trials often give people a ray of hope and I would imagine this trial was done without coercion. Remember that insulin, coronary bypass surgery and literally every medical treatment today was once experimental.
- hsuduebc2 3y agoExactly. If there is something new to learn and both sides are somehow beneficial there is no problem.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoThe first heart transplant (1967, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062759/ ) made newspaper front page headlines and was not smooth sailing: "Although the patient, Mr. Louis Washansky, died after only 18 days, Barnard soon carried out a second transplant, and this patient led an active life for almost 19 months. Remarkably, Barnard’s fifth and sixth patients lived for almost 13 and 24 years, respectively."
- doubleg72 3y agoThat is very interesting..
- johntiger1 3y agoUsually, candidates considered for heart transplants don't have a great alternative - i.e. healthy enough to survive the surgery but without the surgery these candidates would have deteriorated regardless