“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said Neil Armstrong when man landed on the moon. That statement is what comes to my mind when I read Legacy Daring to Care. It seems to fit the risks, ideas, challenges, and discoveries that have been made or taken throughout Loma Linda’s history. The doctors and staff at Loma Linda University have taken steps or leaps into advancements or discovery of medicine from the very beginning of Loma Linda Universities birth. The history that Mr. Richard A. Schaefer presents in his book Legacy Daring to Care will leave any reader begging for more. The developments and discoveries that have happen at Loma Linda University have laid the path to modern day medicine, all the way from new cancer treatments to transplanting an animal heart into a human, but not without a plethora of controversy.
Cancer being one of the most common causes of death today, there is no doubt that majority of people fear it. Previously, cancer was…show more content… Loma Linda University received enormous amounts of media coverage with everyone wanting to know what was going to happen with Baby Fae. She was scheduled to have a heart transplant October 26th, 1984, performed by Dr. Leonard Bailey (Shaefer, 2012, p. 15). The interest from around the world was because the heart donor was a baboon. With many years of experience and research Dr. Bailey and his team gave Baby Fae her last fighting chance at survival. Baby Fae lived a glorious 20 days after surgery, and “died from complications from antibody production” (Shaefer, 2012, p. 19). This was a courageous experiment that resulted with some good and some bad. On one hand, it brought awareness to the public about newborn fatality rates of and the lack of organ donations, on the other hand, Loma Linda University took some risks with very elaborate detailed research and attempted to save Baby Fae’s life. The media and the public exploded with
