TRANSPLANT ‘VULTURES’
Doctor's Reply To Accusation (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 12. A senior colleague of Professor Christiaan Barnard, the South African surgeon, today replied to the British doctor who described heart transplant surgeons as “a gang of vultures.” Professor Arthur Bull, head of the department of anaesthetics at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, said he had been disturbed by remarks attributed to Dr Geoffrey Spencer, head of the intensive care department of St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Professor Bull, who is in London for the fourth World Coegress of Anaesthesiologists, said specialists in South Africa attending a donor were “completely separate” from the cardiac transplant team until they handed over the patient as a donor. He stressed that there was no discrimination in his hospital in the treatment of any racial group.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 15
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