Heart Pump Creates Life-Death Ethical Dilemmas

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Wed, 04/23/2008 - 23:00

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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