Keith Reemtsma

A surgeon, in 1964 Reemtsma tried to solve the problem with the shortage in donor organs by transplanting a chimpanzee's kidney into a human. The first patient lived for nine months, but ultimately the experimental procedure was declared a failure and abandoned. In more orthodox practice, he was the chair of the surgical department at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and helped create a leading heart transplant center there. But Reemtsma perhaps is better known for his prior experience: he was in the Navy and Marine Corps during the Korean War, and was the model for the M*A*S*H movie and television series character Dr. Hawkeye Pierce. Dr. Reemtsma died June 23. He was 74. From This is True for 25 June 2000 Suggestions for further reading: The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Bruce Cumings Amazon Price: $16.32 Customer Review: My only gripe with this book is that its title "The Korean War" is misleading. "Essays on the Korean War in Korean and American Memory" would have been a more apt, but maybe less marketable, title. Thus, interested readers looking for a quick, up-to-...   Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Amazon Price: Customer Review: I just finished reading "Lark & Termite" and I am simply blown away. Jayne Anne Phillips has created some of the most indelible characters ever to leap off of a page and into a reader's mind, heart and soul. Admittedly, the book is dense and slow-g...   Under Fire: Corps 09 by W.E.B. Griffin Amazon Price: Customer Review: I purchased the entire set on another site for a decent price. My only issue with this book is the fact that we jumped from mid WW II to the beginning of the Korean Conflict five years later. I was expecting a book that finished up WW II. it would ha...   Retreat, Hell! by W.E.B. Griffin Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book is more about interpersonal relationships between officers, politicians and their significant others. The book is also about which officer hates which other officer for mostly unexplained reasons and who trusts someone else because they se...   The Captains: Brotherhood of War 02 by W.E.B. Griffin Amazon Price: Customer Review: I bought this for a friend for Christmas because she told me of how traditionally this author's books was given to her by an important family member. She had the Lieutanants and was finishing that up and spoke of getting this one next all the way to ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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