Patients

1. Amegneza Edorh, female, age 57. Mrs.Edorh, a renowned poet and novelist from Nigeria, received the 1987 Nobel Prize for literature. Mrs.Edorh has been confined to bed for the past five months with steadily deteriorating health. (Married: four children between the ages of 30 and 37)

Reasons she should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons she should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

2. Soohan Kim, male, age 12. Soohan, a junior high school student from South Korea, was born with a congenitalheart defect. Doctors wanted to wait until he was a teenager to replace his heart, but his condition has worsened dramatically. He is being kept alive on a heart-lung machine.

Reasons he should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons he should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

3. Alicia Fagan, female, age 27. Ms. Fagan’s heart problems, though recent, seem to have a genetic basis in as much as her twin sister (patient 4) is similarly affected. Although Ms. Fagan is a promising Ph. D. student in biochemistry at Georgetown University, her failing heart and kidneys have caused her to drop out of school temporarily. (Unmarried)

Reasons she should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons she should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

4. Galia Feinstein, female, age 27. Mrs. Feinstein is Ms. Fagan’s twin sister. Mrs. Feinstein, who holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in computer science, currently operates a computer business with her husband. (One daughter, age 4) Mrs. Feinstein’s condition differs from that of her sister in that her kidneys have not been affected.

Reasons she should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons she should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

5. Leonid Gromykovich, male, age 34. Mr.Gromykovich works for US government as a researcher for the Central Intelligence Agency. Born in the Soviet Union, Mr. Gromykovich is considered the Agency’s foremost Kremlinologist (Russian expert). Like patient 2, Mr. Gromykovich is being kept alive on a heart-lung machine. Unmarried (his wife died in an automobile accident), he has three children (ages 6, 3, 2).

Reasons she should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons she should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

6. Martha Rosales, females, female, age 23. Mrs. Rosales’ heart problems originated from a bout he had with scarlet fever while growing up in the slums of New York. Unemployed and on welfare, Mrs. Rosales raised money for her operation through the contributions of those in her neighborhood. Never married, she has four children (ages 8, 6, 5, 1).

Reasons she should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons she should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________

7. Peter Jacobsen, male, age 42. Mr. Jacobsen’s family has a history of heart disease (his father died from a heart attack at age 39). Considered the leading scientist in the world in the area of bacteriological diseases, Mr. Jacobsen has already had one heart transplant operation. Since his body rejected that heart (three weeks ago), Mr. Jacobson has been kept alive by an artificial heart. (Never married, no children)

Reasons he should receive the heart:___________ ______________________________________________________________

Reasons he should not receive the heart:________ ______________________________________________________________

Ranking of heart transplant team:_______________ ______________________________________________________________