European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The most incredibly dense concentration of medical resources Ive Ever seen by Terry Kirkpatrick associated press on the Southern horizon of Houston a Cluster of tall buildings juts out of the coastal Plain like a Small sister it is called the medical but that seems an almost every disorder of the human body is studied and treated it is just one of the most in credibly dense concentrations of medical resources Ive Ever a doctor on the staff of a Senate health sub committee its Fame is two of the nations bes known heart surgeons practice its cancer one of the worlds has made significant advances in radiotherapy and its facilities for trans porting and treating critical patients could serve As a National its inventory of nuclear and computerized gear is a technicians its students Range from High schooners to mid career surgeons from other its several dozen institutions employ people and record million patient visits a thirty rive years ago very Little but Trees and grazing sheep broke the Flat expanse from Houston to the Gulf from pasture to prominence in just a the Texas medical Center has become one of the nations the 35 buildings on 210 acres House four general Hospi five specialized two medical a dental a school of Public a graduate school of biomedical a an Institute for the study of religion and medical and a handful of other organizations dedicated to research and they were built in Large part with the same Cotton and Oil Money that turned a cattle town into a Center of world they were inspired by the same civic drive that made a City so Miles Inland an International port and built the Astrodome its a Cando says Richard the centers when i came Here one of the things i was impressed with we that the older Leaden More often than not talked about when we would do rather than whether we would do its like says Don a medical film maker now compiling the centers anybody who cant make it in this medical Center cant make along with a state of Houston has infused the medical Center with millions of last Pri vate Grants provided an estimated million of its Moo million operating private philanthropic support such As has always been available to Baylor researchers can mean the Dif especially in these recent years of decreasing Federal support for Basic Roger Guille now with the Salk Institute in san said last fall after winning the Nobel prize for he began research on brain hormones that led to the working on millions of hypothalamus glands from hundreds of tons of sheep when he was professor Michael Debakey performing coronary bypass at i of Medicine at Baylor College of one of the medical centers largest six months ago Stanley who was trained in old medical establishment institutions in new came to Houston to Bead Baylor neurology department because the Challenge and Opportunity were far greater he moved into the new Neur sensory a three Tower building devoted exclusively to there int any other place in the country that can afford a million neurological he the major fund raising was done in Only about million came from the Federal its first generation Money and the people have a feeling of obligation to the City that provided them with an Opportunity to earn its one of the reasons the medi Cal Center has grown so in 1947 the medical Center consisted of one 134 acres bought from the and a lot of while classes met in a converted Roebuck Bay lors big while building was under construction in what the Dean called a virtual he could watch sheep grazing cars pass through the medical Center each its buildings and grounds represent an investment of in addition to its operating million is spent annually on research in quest of everything from an artificial heart to an understanding of How rats meet in the desert and transmit the medical Center draw patients from All so states and Many foreign eighteen percent of the patients in Lukes episcopal Hospital and Texas childrens Hospital last year came from these hospitals can summon interpreters in is All of this began in the Early 1940s with the donation of the million estate of a Cotton merchant named Baylor to move from its Dallas and the appropriation of 000 by the Texas legislature for a cancer the Anderson Money provided land and Startup and some things begin to develop a we of their a certain critical like a says or 1 Larry an Urban planner on the Center staff Kach institution that came remained autonomous but found advantages in cooperation they maintain a con trial closed circuit to links each programs for Allda child residence and polks i Hermann hospitals in few in the country with a doctor and nurse on can carry critical patients destined for any Iraq Tuttoi Ben Taub Hospital needs doctors for i talents and Baylor needs a Hospital to train i they Are linked by a Long its one Ous school Hospital relationships in the 8lu and Texas childrens hospitals share Many 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