Highlights
- The first person in the world, whose heart is beating in the chest, is now surrounded by controversies
- The woman said that the doctors should get the full surgery, that person does not deserve it
- In 1988, a man had imposed a tax on the woman’s brother, due to which the brother became paralyzed.
David Bennett, the first person in the world to successfully live a new life through a heart transplant using a pig’s heart, is now in controversy. A woman has said that she did not ‘deserve’ the operation. The woman is the sister of the same man who was paralyzed after Bennett’s attack. Last week, 57-year-old David Bennett had a charismatic heart transplant. He was convicted for attacking Edward Shumaker. This incident is 34 years old.
While playing pool at a Maryland bar in April 1988, Bennett saw his wife Norma Jean Bennett sitting on the shoemaker’s lap and the two drinking and talking. Bennett stabbed the shoemaker seven times in the back, abdomen and chest, leaving him paralyzed. He lived for 19 years before suffering a stroke in 2005 and died two years later at the age of 40. Shoemaker’s sister Leslie Shoemaker Downey criticized the praise received by the man responsible for her brother’s death during an interview with the BBC.
Bennett doesn’t ‘deserve’ this surgery
Downey said he didn’t “deserve” the operation and that she doesn’t like him as a hero at all. Asked whether Bennett should have been the first person to benefit from this medical breakthrough, she said ethically I believe not. Downey said that it is a great thing for the medical community to achieve this breakthrough and it is indeed a historic achievement. But they are promoting Bennett as a hero when nothing like it is.
Doctors should get full praise
He said that I think the doctors who operated on Bennett should get all the praise, not Bennett. The whole story is that for the first time in the world, doctors have transplanted a pig’s heart as a last attempt to save the life of a human at the Maryland Hospital in America. The hospital said on Monday that the patient who received this pig heart is feeling very well after 3 days of this amazing surgery. Even after this success, it is still too early to say whether it will work or not.
Animal heart can work in human body
With this operation, doctors have taken a step forward in the long-running effort to transplant animal organs inside humans. Doctors at the Maryland Medical Center said the transplant showed that a genetically modified animal’s heart could function in a human’s body, without being immediately ruled out. Patient David is told that a pig’s heart has been implanted in him.
Said before surgery – death or transplant
His son told that the father knows that there is no guarantee that this experiment will be successful but the doctors had no other way to save his life. Bennett had said a day before this surgery, ‘It is either a matter of death or a transplant. I want to stay alive I know it is like shooting an arrow in the dark, but it is my last option.
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