European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rival surgeon Cooley Brief family on outcome of open heart surgery. Is Center. Runways Are connected in such a labyrinth that the lire odor coded. Be Mikei specialization possible and that at on hot Iron heats another East Taring is the atmosphere that three hospitals and pal dinks not officially part of the Center have set Rosiu Estreet tree tag specialists Benefit by finding them g together to one place. The Eye Center at her Mann provides everything from Eye glasses to the mos advanced Eye surgery. Al the Neur sensory Center Dis orders of ail five senses Are treated under one roof. . Anderson Hospital and tumor Institute doctors were among the first to have a team of surgeons radiologists and other specialists plan an individual s treat ment program. Community health problems such As nutrition and air pollution Are tackled by groups of experts in the University of Texas health science Center health physicists psychologists sociologists veterinarians dentists geographers and administrators regrouped by project not their Field in the school s build the Mere Are duplications such As in expensive diagnostic equipment. But so far Eastwood says the demand for the duplicated services has justified  Are two medical schools he says. In Many ways they complement each other in Many ways the compete. I be got enough free Enterprise in me to believe that Success stimulates  most talked about duplication involves two celebrated heart surgeons. Perhaps More than anything else the medical Center s International reputation can 1 attributed to what these two have done with the human heart repairing it bypassing it. Assisting it Patching it. Transplanting it working on an artificial replacement for i chore in emergency room. It. O n a typical Day at the medical Center a muggy thursday 341 people checked to Hospital rooms an another 4,180 were outpatients. Before the Day ended there would be 437 emergency cases 16 births 11 deaths. ,.,. U i at 7 . That Day a 2m.-year-old girl with a Hole be tween two Chambers of her heart was sedated an wheeled into one of eight operating rooms in the Texas she scheduled first in the Day because a surgeon never knows exactly what hell find in a child s heart Denton a. Cooley. A tall Man with a Wisp of White at the sideburns finished the operation in two hours. He worked onl3 More patients that Day. Rotating among three oper Siw rooms his staff helped with ail but the most Crit Salord completed a Ren More operations. Cooley and to staff win perform More than 4.000 operations this be Olev 57 son of a wealthy Houston dentist and a this spare time worked for nine years under e Debakey 69. Baylor s president an the Cen Ier renowned heart surgeon. On that thursday who usually would have had a schedule of sur lengthy As Cooley a was hospitalized in theod Vej i Brown building recovering from smoke head rushed into Bis buying lome Nutak. Cooley moved 1.000 re St Luke s a set up the Texas heart Institute of Yard might As Welfle 1.000 Miles today. " anybody who can t make it in this medical Center can t make it " Ocba key and Cooley did t perform the first open heart surgery or transplant the first heart. But they contributed refinements to operating technique and artificial devices used in heart surgery. They raised huge sums of Money for operating and recovery suites. They gathered skilled staffs. They saved lives. It conies Down to individual artistry a hear surgeon in another state says. Artistry is seen More in surgery than any other Branch of  lot of people play the piano. Why Are a few so Good the publicity Man for another institution says those Guys have done great things for Medicine but there Are 30,000 other people  goes on in the operating rooms of Debakey and Cooley is medical Glamor. Things Are different at another part of the Center Ben Taub general Hospital run by Harris  emergency room handles about 250 patients daily and it is also Houston s major emergency treatment enter 95 percent of the critical injury cases come there. There s a room just for heart patients one for drug Over doses and two trauma rooms where specially trained teams can operate on the spot it  the Hall three paramedics with a Bank of radios direct first Aid treatment performed by paramedics Riding the fire department s 29 ambulances. Last year they treated nearly 10.000 people this Way a third of the brought to Ben Taub. This is the Only Hospital that will take people that Don t have an insurance card in their hand 1 Curtis Watson a paramedic says. Weekends to s a War inthe streets of z million  another kind of War is waged across the Way behind the Pink Marble Walls of the . Anderson Hospital and tumor Institute where 350 patients Are admitted anywhere Are another boo to 900 outpatients Are treated each Day where 450 students observe where 850 researcher pursue 350 research projects involving the More than 100 separate disease entities known As . Emil Freureich is a big gregarious Man who Speaks with an evangelist s Fervour. Among other duties he Heads the department that develops new anti cancer  s analogous to the feelings of a Captain leading his men into Battle he says. You have a sense of  certainly expect to succeed. Very few people undertake something they expect to fall in. We re going to control cancer in our  Tofoi the stars and stripes Page is