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Surgeon Kept Heart Transplant Field Alive
Times Staff WriterDr. Norman Shumway, the Stanford surgeon recognized as the father of heart transplant surgery, died Friday morning at his home in Palo Alto of complications from cancer, the Stanford University School of Medicine announced. He died one day after his 83rd...Tags: Defense, University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Henry Ford, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mixed News for Parents of Twins
Times Staff WriterNick Draper, the 7-month-old who struggled to live after receiving a transplanted heart at UCLA Medical Center last week, is improving so fast that doctors plan to sew up his chest over the next two days, his surgeon said Wednesday. Nick's improvement...Tags: Heart Attack, Heart and Circulatory System, Health, Education, Death
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She trusts the fiction to make her point
![THE heart may be deceitful above all things, but sometimes it can tell a truth hidden to the mind — as in a slim book published in 2000 by French political philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The text, titled "The Intruder," was a meditation occasioned by the heart transplant the author received in the late '80s, and the complications that arose when his immune system stubbornly rejected this life-saving intrusion. His sickness enabled him to describe with clarity the painful changes that come when the heart — physical or metaphorical — breaks and must be discarded if life is to carry on.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-03/22470113.jpg "THE heart may be deceitful above all things, but sometimes it can tell a truth hidden to the mind — as in a slim book published in 2000 by French political philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The text, titled "The Intruder,\" was a meditation occasioned by the heart transplant the author received in the late '80s, and the complications that arose when his immune system stubbornly rejected this life-saving intrusion. His sickness enabled him to describe with clarity the painful changes that come when the heart — physical or metaphorical — breaks and must be discarded if life is to carry on.")
Special to The TimesTHE heart may be deceitful above all things, but sometimes it can tell a truth hidden to the mind — as in a slim book published in 2000 by French political philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The text, titled "The Intruder," was a meditation occasioned by...Tags: Edith Piaf, Philosophy, Heart and Circulatory System, Safeway Inc., France
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Mark Landau dies at 59; he and his wife believed to be first couple to have heart transplants
Mark Landau, who with his wife, Sandra, were believed to be the first married couple to have had heart transplants, has died. He was 59. Landau, who lived in Ladera Ranch in Orange County, received a second heart transplant Dec. 17, 2007. He never...Tags: Heart and Circulatory System, Health, Death, Anaheim, New York
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'John Q.'
Times Staff Writer"John Q." is an all-stops-out rabble-rouser that hurls a broadside at America's medical insurance crisis. It takes aim at the HMO hell that so many Americans have experienced firsthand and drives home its message with the subtlety of a sledgehammer....Tags: Laura Harring, Heart and Circulatory System, Health, Ted Demme, James Woods
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