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Heart Pump Creates Life-Death Ethical Dilemmas

After bypass surgery and two heart attacks, the 62-year-old's heart was failing. Desperate, he grasped at his last hope: a surgically implanted heart pump. But following infections, kidney failure and other complications, along with months in the hospital, he returned home weaker than ever.
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By Rob Stein

 
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