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Reader Comments
Facts and ideas
I love your "Facts and ideas from anywhere" columns. The
July 2017 column (1) deserves some comment. On page 387,
you mention Dr. Starzl. In 1966 or thereabout, I was aware that
he was planning a liver transplant in an infant. I was unaware
then of the 1963 attempt. I sent him an infant with biliary
atresia, named Paula. Starzl, whom I talked to several times,
planned to do the transplant in Paula as his ﬁrst infant. While
waiting for a donor, the staﬀ got very attached to Paula, he told
me. He knew that he would lose the ﬁrst case and did not want
to demoralize the staﬀ excessively. He decided to do another
transplant ﬁrst in an infant with a large liver tumor. He later
performed the transplant in Paula and had all sorts of technical
problems, and she died.
Russian leeches: I was a guest of Professor Stan Doletski in
Moscow in 1979. My family was in the operating room when he
corrected an esophageal atresia. We toured the premier children's
hospital with him. It was like the USA in 1890. No money!

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Climate change, p. 387: I think that guy Tom Snyder is on
drugs. . . . We do have climate change that even rabid anti-CO2
people agree that we cannot aﬀect regardless of what we do. I
remember the 1970s when we were told that another ice age was
upon us. I am not sure that the planet is now warming. Mount
St. Helen got more CO2 into the air than all of the coal-burning
power plants in China can do in 100+ years.
Cost of pets, p. 386: I am a dog lover, but not a cat lover.
I shudder at the way people spend time and money on dogs.
Worst, they substitute them for human infants. You know the
demographics. We had three, but it should have been ﬁve. We
had several poodles also.
Your other items were well discussed. Thank you.
-Dick Ellis, MD
Fort Worth, Texas
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