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POPSFirst Horse to Human Penis Transplant A Success! When asked about the recipient, Dr. Krebs surprised spectators by allowing the patient to say a few words in person. He was helped in by two nurses and the noticeable bulge in his pajamas caused a few murmurs amongst the crowd. "I'd like to introduce Mr. Skoob who received this wonderful gift yesterday. As you can see he's getting his strenght back and will be leaving the ward tomorrow morning." "Mr. Skoob, London Magazine here, can you say a few words to our readers about your experience?" "Why yes," Skoob cleared his throat and took the microphone, "I'd first off like to thank the wonderful staff here, and I have very few problems. My crotch sure seems loaded now! But I'm wondering just how long I'll have to keep this feed bag full of oats on my face."
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POPSFace Transplant This has been a story I tried to follow when they gave info. This is so sad, but yet, could still have a happy ending.
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POPSFirst Face Transplant Recipient Shows Off Her New Face Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.
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POPSFrench hospital performs simultaneous face, hand transplants continues (more at source): The man also received a new set of hands, attached above the wrist, the statement said. The surgery succeeded in reconnecting all the relevant nerves, tendons, arteries and veins. The organs were harvested from a brain-dead donor with his family's consent. The transplant patient had been on the waiting list for the organs for one year, the authority said. A French woman, Isabelle Dinoire, underwent the first partial face transplant in 2005 in Amiens, France. Other recipients include another European patient, a Chinese farmer and a woman operated on late last year in Cleveland, Ohio.
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POPSHealth Care is Not a Right Take a heavy drinker who develops cirrhosis. He desperately needs a liver transplant in order to survive. But there is a shortage of available livers, and there are many other patients in need. Does he have a right to receive a life-saving transplant, or has he given up his right? Let's say he has, and we deny him a transplant, but there are still not enough livers to save the deserving patients. How do we decide among them without arbitrarily depriving some of their right to health care? This is the problem we face when we shift from a negative to a positive conception of rights. We encounter shortages, we face tradeoffs, and at some point we have to make arbitrary decisions. When that happens — well, to quote William Munny, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
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POPSRecognizing the Man in the Mirror "Three short years ago, the first partial face transplantation was performed in France and recently the first of these procedures to be conducted in the United States was successfully accomplished. This was only the fourth operation of its type but experts estimate that perhaps as early as next year the first complete face transplant will be attempted."
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POPSThe Mayor-Elect's New Clothes I'll have to admit that transgender is difficult for even me to understand, but it seems the whole town likes her and what the hell? She seems to get things done.
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POPSCosmetic Surgery Information on the Cosmetic Surgery Referral Network. Including a list of all procedures and geographic locations they service.
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POPSA Mother Blogs Against Cancer Why do we write? Perhaps it is a form of anger and healing; perhaps it sets one free. It's simply amazing what a thought on paper can do for the writer and the reader.
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POPS Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
"Marijuana, unlike alcohol, has no direct effect on the liver. It is however a concern ... in that it's a potential indicator of an addictive personality," said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the Institute of Human Values Dr. Brad Roter, the Seattle physician who authorized Garon's pot use for nausea, abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite, said he did not know it would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant. That's typically the case, said Peggy Stewart, a clinical social worker on the liver transplant team at UCLA who has researched the issue. "There needs to be some kind of national eligibility criteria," she said. The patients "are trusting their physician to do the right thing. The physician prescribes marijuana, they take the marijuana, and they are shocked that this is now the end result," she said. Many doctors agree that using marijuana — smoking it, especially — is out of the question post-transplant. The drugs patients take to help their bodies a
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POPSTransplant Surgeon Charged 'Hastened Death Of Patient For Organs' A transplant surgeon could face up to eight years in jail after being charged with trying to hasten the death of a patient. In what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the United States, Dr Hootan Roozrokh is accused of prescribing excessive doses of drugs to Ruben Navarro, a brain-damaged potential organ donor, so he could harvest his organs sooner. Roozrokh, 34, allegedly prescribed the drugs after Mr Navarro's ventilator was removed several days after he was admitted to hospital in San Luis Obispo, California.
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POPSPreventative Prosecution "Preventative prosecution?" What is going on here? Why isn't this all over the news instead of tucked away in a guest editorial? Why aren't people outraged? I understand that the phrase "habeas corpus" is difficult for lots of people to get upset about, but "preventative prosecution"?
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