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Tuesday, December 4. 1979
University Daily Kansan
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educate the public and hospital personnel about the need for donors.
Crain, who coordinates such programs for the Midwest Organ Bank, agreed that educating the hospital staffs to the need for medical donations, such as careworn, is important.
Public awareness and public attitudes about the potential risks of infection if enough kinks or corraes are going to be available, said Byron Smith, chief resident at the ophthalmology department at the State Hospital.
"There never have been enough donors," Smith said. "Enough means to me, if I saw a patient needing one (a corneal transplant) in a couple of weeks, not several months."
The results of corneal transplants are excellent, Smith said. They can change a blind person to a seeing person.
"Finding donors for corneal transplantists is never pursued enough by the medical community," Smith said. "I wish we could physically need to help with the better doctor."
One of the problems is that people have the attitude "It's never going to happen to me." Smith said, people did not want to think about what would happen when they were born.
In Kansas and Missouri, persons who want to donate any of their organs can sign a donor pledge card, a uniform anatomical lab badge, or a driver's license. The driver's license, said Mary Neel, executive
director of the Kansas City, Mo., Eye Bank A person must be at least 18 years old to be a donor.
"If they carry any of these cards, the chances are good that the hospital staff will discover the card and call an organ bank," she said.
The cards are considered to be legally binding. However it is standard medical practice for hospital permission to ask the next of kin to sign a consent form. Neil said,
"It is helpful for the potential donors to inform their next of kin of their decision so they can inform the staff," she said.
Greathease told, "To avoid any type of legal situation, or misunderstanding, the next of kin is asked to sign a consent form and provide details about the use or suing it should be the whole program back."
"It's just not worth saying yes, this person said it has his kidney了 kidney used. It still pretty well accepted that the next of kin has the legal right to the body."
Pat Hannon, a Lawrence resident who works with the Kidney Foundation, said she could not understand why so few people were simming donor cards.
"Only eight percent of the population have signed their cards," she said. "I'm convinced if everyone knew about it they would all sign."
Mrs. Hannon's family decided to sign donor cards several years ago, but a personal tragedy made the importance of donors even more onerous to them.
Three years ago, Mrs. Hannah's 17-year-old son, Mike, died in a motorcycle accident. When the doctor asked the family if they
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"There still are lots of complications and problems with transplants," she said. "It's not a sure-fire cure, a good part of them don't work."
"People are dying daily, if a particular action can be a part of lessening the sense of loss, it can be a very comforting aspect."
Greatheath spoke cautiously about the success of transplants.
"The primary reason that kidneys do not work is rejection by the body," she said. "Just because a kidney is working does not mean it has been healthy, and good enough to keep a patient off dialysis."
"I want to live my life, I don't want to sit around wasting away, so I try to be as active as possible.
"I maintain we're not different from anyone else. It's a good thing to do, it's just that simple.
In the future, as the problem of organ rejection comes under control and techniques for tissue-tissue and organ transplantation become available, a number of donors may be eased, according to Cran.
"There is a great deal of bitterness involved, a huge disappointment when the kid gets caught up in the psychologically and emotionally it is very hard on the patients and everyone else inside."
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Similar doubts have crossed Tony's mind.
"If I did get one, would I feel any better?" he said.
"At the time," she said, "and afterward, I got the sense that something good was happening, something positive.
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Tony has made the adjustment to living without his kidneys. A little more than a year ago, he was the first patient at St.
"I'd like to get back into the normal stream of life."
Tony said he hopes to go back to school in January to finish his degree in business administration.
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"I finally resigned myself to the fact that this is part of my life, nothing I can do about it," he said. "So I might as well make the best of it.
Finding records that date earlier than the 1948s is difficult in the area surrounding Lawrence. However, in Jefferson County early information was recorded in neen and
"To say, 'Here's a system. Follow it,'—that won't solve the problem, because cities don't have the time or money to organize a system, unless it's relatively simple."
"I feel like I've aged 20 years since I
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Bill Douglas, a lobbyist for the League, said, "In smaller cities, it is often a one-man office where the clerk does everything from entering the building to keeping track of minutes and correspondence.
State Architect Terry Harmon said the survey of state records would be a "huge undertaking and a matter of finding the motor to do it."
MANY CITY clerks said that when they had questions about what to do with records, they contacted the League of Municipalities.
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"It would be a big job to look at each type of record," he said. "It's not easy to judge the historical significance of information it will have historical value in a few years."
make recommendations for preserving records," he said, "and would make a survey of the state. He would indicate which records were non-current and out of these, the state archivist would be the official and would negotiate for the records."
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FOR MANY are town sets, DeSoto seems to be the model example for storing records. All current court dockets, city ordinances, and municipal records are council minutes and payroll records are stored in a newly built room that is large enough to accommodate several shelves. The entire room is fireproof.
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The Spencer Museum also acquired the Eudora council minutes from 1857, the year the city was incorporated. Arlene Lane, Eudora city clerk, said a former mayor of the city was keen concerned about the records and was instrumental in having them preserved.
But the storing conditions have not always been so good, according to Joann Dinger, DeSoto clerk. She said she succeeded a city
As good as the town's system may be, many of the city documents still cannot be found. The establishment in 1857, but the city ordinances on file date only
ink in a book titled, "Enrollment of Ex-Soldiers and Sailors, Their Widows and Orphans—March 1, 1889."
The book showed that Logan Hickerson, a Jefferson county resident, spend 15 months in the Andersonville prison, encountered gangrene and scurvy, but was not granted a pension. Another county resident, John Hicks, moved from piles and was given a 44 month in pension.
Recently one book was found that showed property descriptions and ordinations from government sources, as well as regulations and defined "vehicle" as "equestrians, led horses and everything on horseback."
It took a $12,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to change the situation. Desbuilt a new fire station that was completed last December.
"He was often too busy digging ditches or fixing water pipe leaks to organize the city's records," she said.
She described the city office then as a "depressing place to work," because it was very small, disorganized and had been painted pink and green.
Two old filing cabinets were used to store the records, she said, "and you could barely get the drawers opened." Other records were stored in a small room. The mail was stacked on top of an old bookcase.
clerk who also had served as the city maintenance man.
Pages of the book were yellowed and brittle, and Dinger said, "I don't quite know what to do with it."
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