Leading Actors in Medical Drama Blaiberg Condition Improves Daily CAPE TOWN-Dentist Dr. Philip Blaiberg is expected to go home from Grote Schuur Hospital in three weeks, one month after his heart transplant operation, the second in medical history. The first was Louis Washkan- sky, who had been a patient of Dr. Blaiberg in the South African Medical Corns during World War II. Mr. Washkansky, also a Jew, died of pneumonia 18 days after the transplant, which in itself was successful. Dr. Blaiberg saw his wife Eileen Sunday for the first time since the operation, although their five-minute meeting was separated by a window looking into the germ-free room. The heart that is now Dr. Blaiberg's This photo of Dr. Philip Bla'berg was taken just before the retired dentist underwent the historic, successful heart transplant operation In Cape Town, South Africa. He is expected to leave the hospital in three weeks. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Jamey 12, 1968-25 BLAIR STUDIO Music the Stein-Way DICK STEIN Weddings - Her ItUtreas & ORCHESTRA We tome to Your Homo LI 7-2770 With Samples UN 4-6845 TY 5-3805 •• • • • • ••• ..2• • Nril• •ep/O • ••• •• • • • • • 11•111•••••111••••411111•••••••••••••••••••6•00••••••••• • Danger to Ethics Warned by Surgeon FRANKFURT - Nobel Prize- transplant patients being select- winning German surgeon Dr. Wer- ed on the basis of wealth, in- ner Forssmann warned in a news- fluential friends or politics. "Unt'l now," wrote Dr. Forss- paper article last week that human heart transplants could violate mann, "only two persons-doctor "the supreme commandment of and patient-were linked in medi- surgery" and recalled the atroci- cal treatment. Now a third person ties committed in Nazi concentra- is drawn into this venerable rela- tion camps in the name of medi- tionship and this third person must . . inevitably die. cal science. " He who operates under such Dr. Forssmann wrote in Frank- furter Allgemeine that the "loss preconditions," said Dr. Forss- of moral substance" was too high menu, "ignores the supreme com- a price to pay for heart trans- mandment of surgery, 'nil nocere' ' nothing')." plants. The article was written be- (Latin for harm fore the second heart transplant operation on Dr. Philip Blaiberg. Dr. Forssmann, chief surgeon of the Dusseldorf Evangelical Hospital, said that heart trans- plants raise the prospect of am- bitious surgeons sacrificing the lives of donor patients, criminals being executed so that vital or- fans can be transplanted and of part Negro. They both had the relatively uncommon blood type B positive. Doctors have encountered no signs of infection, which killed Mr. Wachkun.sky, or of rejection of the heart by Dr. Blaiberg's body. According to hospital bulletins, Dr. Blaiberg has been bright and cheerful, proceeding to a normal diet and his condition "very satis- factory." (Three more operations have been held since Dr. Blaiberg's. The most recent, performed by Dr. Andrew Kantorowitz on Louis Block, was unsuccessful The heart, from a 100-pound girl, was too small for 170-pound Mr. Block, who died Tuesday in New York.) • DR. CHRISTIAN BARNARD was transplanted froin a 24- year-old man, a Mulatto. Before the operation in race-couscous South Africa, Dr. Blaiberg said that it made no difference to him that the donor had been 0. • Phones 353-9353 A, excluii„,i, 5/0K41411/ • sAhs ear.-- eims tics • ffactais ncoursesit4 NORTHLAND CENTER Ca The !mondial-able in Musk MICKEY STEIN and his CHORDOVOX EN/a y : oulr 11:4 1ext 2- 11729 - Jill Blaiberg, 26, Dr. Blai- berg's daughter, phones her mother in Cape Town, before returning to her classes in Haifa, jubilant over the success of the operation. on 6 Ree Catering. The Regency has facilities for 100, but patrons are requested to limit their guest lists to 75 as the art of preparing and serving food graciously is too delicate to accommodate a greater number. 13301 West Eight Mile Road • 341-3333 Ask for Gary Marcus Eileen Blaiberg, wife of heart transplant patient Dr. Philip Blaiberg, is staying In a furnish- ed room at Groot* Schuur Hos- pital, where the operation was performed. She was allowed is see her husband for the first time Sunday-but only through a window. ANNUNI9 SALEt One Week Only Toronto Teen's Refusal to Shed Skullcap in Class Starts Wrangle (Direct JTA Teletype litre to The Jewish News) TORONTO - A Jewish 17-year- old high school student has been forbidden to wear a skull cap while attending class because school officials said it was in violation of a department regulation prohibit- ing religious symbols in a class- room. The incident took place this week at Bathurst Heights High School in North York, a suburb here. Sydney Midanik, chairman of the community relations committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a member of the Canadian Cavil liberties Association, protested on behalf of the youth, Arnold Green- spoon. He took the matter to North York's department of education, arguing that a skull cap is not a religious symbol. Jewish students at the school are permitted to don skull caps only in the cafeteria during their lunch period. Said Murray Chusid, a North York alderman, "The board of education is wrong. The prin- cipal is wrong and the regulation is wrong." • • • • imammimmasmatmmotammaiimomammaeommmotimmmaimammaeil Women in His Life Watch . . . and Wait LEARN Now Teachi•g MX W. 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