{"id":2371,"date":"2012-10-25T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2015-01-08T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T21:36:25","slug":"dr-thomas-starzl-performs-transplant-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/10\/25\/dr-thomas-starzl-performs-transplant-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thomas Starzl performs transplant surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 13, 1985:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl has always downplayed his hero image. \u00a0In April 1984, the Post-Gazette ran a profile of Dr. Starzl. \u201cHis life, said his family and friends, is like few others, an endless stream of long workdays followed by equally long worknights.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Even those who know him best are amazed at his endurance and perseverance. He seldom needs more than five hours of sleep a night, often going days with only naps on planes between back-to-back operations. His eating pattern is just as sporadic.”<\/p>\n

He is a workaholic, thriving on his work. \u201cStarzl thinks nothing of working on a medical article after a night of surgery; he\u2019s written more than 500 so far. He forgets none of his patients\u2019 names, remembering even the dates they were operated on,\u201d the article said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018He has great sensitivity and awareness. I\u2019ve seen him cry when he had to tell a family he\u2019s lost a son or a daughter,\u2019 said Paul Taylor, the University of Colorado\u2019s transplant coordinator, who worked with Starzl for two decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl has always downplayed his hero image. <\/p>\n

Look at the picturesDr. Thomas Starzl performs transplant surgery<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1066],"tags":[964,980,1035,1036,1258,1050],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mbfznslY4Q1rr5swxo1_400.jpg?fit=250%2C369&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2374,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/10\/25\/dr-thomas-starzl-sleeps-in-an-ambulance\/","url_meta":{"origin":2371,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Thomas Starzl\u00a0sleeps in an ambulance","date":"October 25, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"A physician and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Thomas Starzl pioneered in the field of liver transplantation.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mbfzgi6jiG1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9302,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2018\/12\/24\/pittsburgh-christmas-photos-old-traditions\/","url_meta":{"origin":2371,"position":1},"title":"Photos from Pittsburgh’s Christmases past","date":"December 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas is a holiday of traditions, and every city has its own. 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