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I ijie Tigers fouowed their game Wj& JsP'l Deadly habit WBMJwk Making I frShs? t5AM ' JjfWml PGambrlineg csan sgeteyous. Ansd sif i. t MUfM sHersinwgs, herSo'ugmts. u. hes? wica? ves HHBHHHHHh I i llSLiri'Bd'K tf& 3t& m' IB W'sjie message from a 64-- MK DunscSmbe conductor ofK ETIbKI I SoonerV wSS!? SJffS BSl & TT -- re- 0! 1 "" bia man who KjK University's Student Philhar-- A JMfc J I MtteStabbn Mi & J started gambung at 17 and has jKMF momc Orchestra. Read about HiMHb I S buTwS KjJ& M? ' rec managed to lack the i Dunscombe - and what his ftlBHK. TtfHrS. fsseeeePpaLgeelBIB. ' iHfeM4 EHgi dheaabditly. RgreiapdinaPbeoouptleg, aPmabglein1gC'. s 31Wft? - MJ sPtaugdeen2tsof Vtihbirnaktionosf. him -- on HBRfffiHmfe. ; lifc-- Columbia " Rf 76th Year No. 123 Good Morning! It's Sunday, February 5, 1984 5 Sections 48 Pages 50 Cents BBaaaaaBBaBLaBBaaaaaBaaaBBaaBBaaaaaanBsVr twy 3HVki& tiiMatffJR099EiHHiHHIHIHHBE BBBBMsaBBHwBBBBaaaaaaBBBaBBaBar iBtfiCTaBbifjfjSaBMBMiMHffloBfiw3ccj JwawaaaaTEi nPsaBaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaBaaaaBBHBBffl aaBeVBseaeaaBBBBsvBaaaBBBBnF)'' l9E& 4y?- r- " jynMaaM& 9HflH ' th -- f IHHk, THBfc- - x SsraHsIS- - " c- - asfaBaMBT jaaaaVLVHflHav 1 BsBaBvBsBaBlStl? t BaasaHB SjwBhf aaaaaaaiBaaattVfr aaaHBaaaaT BHIBBjBJf HHHBSHEHHHHHBur iBBaaKSBf''''' HH T -- HIBHHn. BaBBBBBBHBBBBBBhBBKhBBBBRBBBaaBHBBaeP'' IHP jJt BaaBabBbabbWV taTmAKirn1uTtBBHHBBHBHfe BHHHHHHBHIHIIHHHBHHIHBHHHHiHHHHHIHlBBIlHHL OBHBHk HHb: RBHBHHIHH Stephens College President Patsy Sampson is enjoying an extended honeymoon period. 8t, hMonjh" n Problem solver Stephens' president tackles new job's challenges By Pam Reynolds Mlssourian staff writer On a rainy Saturday afternoon, Patsy Sampson is dallying about the house. The roof is leaking. She acknowledges the problem, but she is adept at both handling it and hiding it. Not a puddle or a pot mars the expanse of beige carpet in her living room The house is tran-quil. That is Sampson's style. Ease and poise characterize not only the way she handles household problems but the wayshe handles her job. She takes it in stride. It is this fact about Sampson, Ste-phens College president, that has made so many people at Stephens admire her so much. They describe her as low- ke- y, easy- goin- g, empa- theti- c. She is, they say, the kind of person who doesn't cower should a crisis arise and the kind of person who can eat barbecued chicken with-out worrying about the mess She is a soft- spok- en woman Her voice has almost a childish quality. Yet behind the quiet voice lies a res-onance bom of a strong mind. She has will and determination, qualities that led the 51- year-- old to take mo-torcycle lessons in the fall of 1982, to climb the faces of craggy rocks and cliffs in the summer of 1983 and, also in the summer of 1983, to move from a comfortable position as dean of hb-- eral arts at Drake University to Ste-phens. " I wasn't sure I really wanted the job at first," she recalls " I wasn't really interested in leaving Drake, but I became intrigued by what I learned of Stephens. I didn't actively pursue the job, but I was nominated by two independent people I don't even know whothey are " Stephens has been her latest chal-lenge, but not necessarily her big-gest At the age of 27, Sampson met her first challenge, nd perhaps her most difficult She was a divorced mother of two toddlers and an in-fant, living in Oklahoma and work-ing as a secretary in an oil company " I read a book by Sigmund Freud called ' Group Analysis of the Ego,' and I was so moved by that book," says Sampson " I didn't have any idea you could look at such everyday things and get such grand ideas with them. I decided that night I would be a psychologist I stayed up all night" Sampson worked out a babysit-ting trade with a friend while they attended classes at the University of Oklahoma, organizing their hours so that someone would always have charge of the children. Four years later, she left the university with her bachelor's degree. She then attended Cornell Umver-- See IMPROVED, Page 8A Cable company awaits city franchise decision By Julie Wright Mlssourian staff writer Why would a cable company with only 1,000 subscribers want to chal-lenge a division of Wesungbouse7 John Beatty, president of Boone County Cable, says the answer is as simple as picking up the phone. " We had so many Columbians calling to request our service," be says, that it only seemed logical to tap the Colombia market " We saw en opportunity and we took it," explains Steve Cream, local manager for Boone County Cable. " We live in Columbia, we know what is gong on I have Group W ca-ble at home." Boone County Cable made its move to enter the city's cable busi-ness last September, but saw little progress toward receiving a fran-chise until the company began circu-lating an initiative petition on Jan. 26. The City Council's cable tele-vision subcommission since ben has prepared a resolution that would give Boom County Cable a franchise identical to Group Ws The council may consider the resolution Monday night. I Last week, however, city counsel-or Dave Evans said that be, Boone County Cable and the cable subcom-mittee chairman, Councilman Pat Barnes, had reached a compromise that wfll be discussed at the pre- coun- cfl dinner Monday. The compro-mise would change the city's cable regulations and would delete the pro-vision requiring cable -- companies to wire areas in which there are SO po-tential subscribers per mile. That provision, Boone County Cable says, makes it impossible for the company to compete in Columbia. Boone County Cable was estab-lished in July 1981 by Columbia law-yers Larry Woods, Carl Sapp, Scott Orr and electronic engineer Andy Anderson. The three lawyers, along with Beatty, had been involved in the cable busmess- sinc- e 1966. Beatty owned and managed the Sedalia ca-ble system twice during the 1970s. The goal of the company in its in-fancy was to serve homes in north-- See FIRST, Page 7A Space shuttle delays launch of 2nd satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ( UPI) Numerous chunks of space debns trailing Challenger around the Earth appear to be all that is left of the $ 75 million Western Union satellite launched Friday by the shuttle as-tronauts, project officials said Satur-day Some of the Air Force's most pow-erful radar units located ' two large and many smaller objects," some drifting as close as about 30 miles to the shuttle The location of the de-bris was further proof that Westar 6 failed to climb to its proper orbit af-ter launch Friday A spokesman for the North Ameri-can Aerospace Defense Command said none oE the orbiting pieces posed any threat to the shuttle and ' astronaut. Vance Brand, Robert ' iHoofGlbson, Bruce McCamBess, RonftlaMcNalr and Robert Stewart. Flight director Randy Stone said there was a possibility the crew might be asked to maneuver the shuttle closer to confirm that the or-biting objects were the remains of Westar 6 Jfe said, however, that the shuttle probably wouldn't have enough fuel to conduct such an un-precedented orbital inspection. The astronauts were told to delay at least until Sunday the launch of an identical communications satellite for Indonesia Mission controllers said the eight- da- y flight could be ex-tended another day if a further post-ponement was necessary The astronauts were told at 4 20 pm CST that project officials wouldn't let them know until Sunday morning whether the Indonesia sa-tellite would be launched Sunday or be delayed until Monday Stone said there also was a possi-bility the Indonesian satellite man-agers might decide to have the shut-tle bring their spacecraft back to Earth, rather than risk deployment with the same system that apparent-ly failed on Westar E The astronauts took advantage of the delay to spend more time on ex-periments and then inspected the spacesuits that McCandless and Stewart will wear on next week's free- flyin- g spacewalks The shuttle was 9 8 miles behind and 7 1 miles above Westar when the satellite's orbit- raisin- g rocket was to have fired Fnday. The ship's win-dows, however, were pointed away deliberately to avoid exhaust con-tamination, and the astronauts could not see what happened. Engineers were trying to solve the mystery of what went wrong with the 21 foot- lon- g Westar, which was insured for approximately $ 100 mil-lion, before the spacemen launch the Indonesian satellite known as Pala- p- a Bill Zegler, Western Union's mis-sion manager, speculated that Wes-tar 6 could have spun out of control like a flaming pinwheel when the sa-tellite's solid propellant rocket mo-tor fired or the rocket could have ex-ploded Until the debris is identified, how-ever, there is always a chance the satellite could stall be close to its planned orbit and might be salvage-able, ne said. He sad attempts to contact fbe- sa- teDltetadbeenunsuce- ssful. Westars. deployment from the shuttle appeared normal, but engi-neers were unable to confirm that the satellite's rocket motor fired properly The $ 8 million rocket, called a payload assist module, was supposed to have pushed the satellite toward an orbit 22,300 miles high The Palapa also depends on such a rocket to reach the nght spot in space Four similar satellites using identical rockets have been success-fully launched from the shuttle and are now in proper stationary orbits. Western Union officials said then- tot- al investment in Westar 6 was be-tween $ 75 million and $ 80 million, in-cluding costs of the satellite, launch, the payload assist module, insurance and a penalty the company had to pay for canceling a contract to have the satellite launched by the Euro-pean Space Agency's Anane rocket Westar 6 was to be the third ad-vanced Western Union communica-tions satellite in orbit and the first of that series to be earned aloft by the shuttle Earlier Westars were boost-ed into orbit by Delta rockets, which the shuttle was designed to replace Palapa, the Indonesian satellite, is similar in design to Westar S and is to be a link in a communications sa-tellite system designed to unify Indo-nesia, the world's largest archipela-go The system relays television, tele-phone and data transmissions over a wide area of Southeast Asia, includ-ing the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bah, Singapore, Malaysia and Thai-land, and reaches as far as the Phil-ippines The death of a 4- year- - old boy By Carlos A. Briceno Mlssourian staff writer Shortly after bis birth, Daryn Wilson was diagnosed as having leukemia. For three years, he and bis mother, Nancy, traveled regu-larly from their modest, ranch- styl- e home in a rural subdivision near Moberly to the University Hospital for treatment They often stayed overnight in one of the apartments maintained for that purpose by the CandTelighters or-ganization. The cancer went into remission last year. In December, Daryn was one of three boys chosen to appear in a fund- raisi- ng broadcast for the CandJelighters on Channel 13 The Wilsons returned to Univer-sity Hospital Jan 9, this tune for Daryn to undergo- - surgery to cor-rect his undescended testicles The surgical procedure is considered safe and simple. The mortality rate is described by experts as being ' infirutesimally low." The hospital did not keep Daryn overnight He and his mother went back to the fa-- i ' It was unexpected I couldn't believe it' miliar Candlehghters apartment There, on the morning of Jan 10, Daryn Wilson died His death resulted, according to Medical Examiner Jay Dix, from " internal bleeding resulting from a complication of the surgery " Dix said he plans no investigation be-yond the autopsy because he has no indication that Daryn's deathi in-volved any wrongdoing. He added, " I don't think there was medical malpractice." Little more is known publicly about the circumstances of the death. Dix said his final report will not be finished for four to six weeks An internal review commit-tee is studying the case for the hos-pital. Neither result is likely to be made public. The Wilsons have lured a lawyer, Thomas R. Oswald of KjrksvQle, to investigate The operation, which is called an orchiopexy, is " usually an easy op-eration to perform with an infini-tesimal mortality rate," said James E Bumgarner, the senior physician at Urology Consultants, 3401 Berrywood Drive " Any risk involved from this type of surgery is usually from the anesthetic, but not from the opera-tion," he said When told that a 4- year- - old boy had died from an internal hem-orrhage after such an operation, he replied, " I have been m business for 30 years, and I have never heard of one death " Gilbert Ross, a staff surgeon at the University Hospital, agreed that the mortality rate from an or-chiopexy is " infintfesimally low, mcrediblylow." The National Center for Health Statistics in Washington does not record mortality rates for orchio-pexy. The center's figures show only that in 1982 there were 32,000 of the operations performed in this country Ross estimated that 40 to 50 are performed each year in Co-lumbia As safe and as common as it is, the operation requires hospitahza- - l tion, Bumgarner said " I personal-ly feel all patients should stay over-night"' It is " more than an appendix op-eration but less than a gall bladder operation, both of which require hospitalization." Usually, he said, " patients that undergo this type of surgery should be kept in the hospital up to a week Only if it's extremely easy to bring down the testicles should the pa-tient be released sooner." Ross said that " depending on the complexity of the operation, the pa-tient can go home that evening, but in many cases that's impractical since the child may experience dis-comfort and the parents may not be able to help." Donald Silver, head of surgery at the University Hospital, could not be reached for comment despite numerous attempts The hospital would not release the name of the surgeon who performed the opera-- See HOSPITAL, Page 8A I
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Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-02-05 |
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Item.Transcript | I ijie Tigers fouowed their game Wj& JsP'l Deadly habit WBMJwk Making I frShs? t5AM ' JjfWml PGambrlineg csan sgeteyous. Ansd sif i. t MUfM sHersinwgs, herSo'ugmts. u. hes? wica? ves HHBHHHHHh I i llSLiri'Bd'K tf& 3t& m' IB W'sjie message from a 64-- MK DunscSmbe conductor ofK ETIbKI I SoonerV wSS!? SJffS BSl & TT -- re- 0! 1 "" bia man who KjK University's Student Philhar-- A JMfc J I MtteStabbn Mi & J started gambung at 17 and has jKMF momc Orchestra. Read about HiMHb I S buTwS KjJ& M? ' rec managed to lack the i Dunscombe - and what his ftlBHK. TtfHrS. fsseeeePpaLgeelBIB. ' iHfeM4 EHgi dheaabditly. RgreiapdinaPbeoouptleg, aPmabglein1gC'. s 31Wft? - MJ sPtaugdeen2tsof Vtihbirnaktionosf. him -- on HBRfffiHmfe. ; lifc-- Columbia " Rf 76th Year No. 123 Good Morning! It's Sunday, February 5, 1984 5 Sections 48 Pages 50 Cents BBaaaaaBBaBLaBBaaaaaBaaaBBaaBBaaaaaanBsVr twy 3HVki& tiiMatffJR099EiHHiHHIHIHHBE BBBBMsaBBHwBBBBaaaaaaBBBaBBaBar iBtfiCTaBbifjfjSaBMBMiMHffloBfiw3ccj JwawaaaaTEi nPsaBaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaBaaaaBBHBBffl aaBeVBseaeaaBBBBsvBaaaBBBBnF)'' l9E& 4y?- r- " jynMaaM& 9HflH ' th -- f IHHk, THBfc- - x SsraHsIS- - " c- - asfaBaMBT jaaaaVLVHflHav 1 BsBaBvBsBaBlStl? t BaasaHB SjwBhf aaaaaaaiBaaattVfr aaaHBaaaaT BHIBBjBJf HHHBSHEHHHHHBur iBBaaKSBf''''' HH T -- HIBHHn. BaBBBBBBHBBBBBBhBBKhBBBBRBBBaaBHBBaeP'' IHP jJt BaaBabBbabbWV taTmAKirn1uTtBBHHBBHBHfe BHHHHHHBHIHIIHHHBHHIHBHHHHiHHHHHIHlBBIlHHL OBHBHk HHb: RBHBHHIHH Stephens College President Patsy Sampson is enjoying an extended honeymoon period. 8t, hMonjh" n Problem solver Stephens' president tackles new job's challenges By Pam Reynolds Mlssourian staff writer On a rainy Saturday afternoon, Patsy Sampson is dallying about the house. The roof is leaking. She acknowledges the problem, but she is adept at both handling it and hiding it. Not a puddle or a pot mars the expanse of beige carpet in her living room The house is tran-quil. That is Sampson's style. Ease and poise characterize not only the way she handles household problems but the wayshe handles her job. She takes it in stride. It is this fact about Sampson, Ste-phens College president, that has made so many people at Stephens admire her so much. They describe her as low- ke- y, easy- goin- g, empa- theti- c. She is, they say, the kind of person who doesn't cower should a crisis arise and the kind of person who can eat barbecued chicken with-out worrying about the mess She is a soft- spok- en woman Her voice has almost a childish quality. Yet behind the quiet voice lies a res-onance bom of a strong mind. She has will and determination, qualities that led the 51- year-- old to take mo-torcycle lessons in the fall of 1982, to climb the faces of craggy rocks and cliffs in the summer of 1983 and, also in the summer of 1983, to move from a comfortable position as dean of hb-- eral arts at Drake University to Ste-phens. " I wasn't sure I really wanted the job at first," she recalls " I wasn't really interested in leaving Drake, but I became intrigued by what I learned of Stephens. I didn't actively pursue the job, but I was nominated by two independent people I don't even know whothey are " Stephens has been her latest chal-lenge, but not necessarily her big-gest At the age of 27, Sampson met her first challenge, nd perhaps her most difficult She was a divorced mother of two toddlers and an in-fant, living in Oklahoma and work-ing as a secretary in an oil company " I read a book by Sigmund Freud called ' Group Analysis of the Ego,' and I was so moved by that book," says Sampson " I didn't have any idea you could look at such everyday things and get such grand ideas with them. I decided that night I would be a psychologist I stayed up all night" Sampson worked out a babysit-ting trade with a friend while they attended classes at the University of Oklahoma, organizing their hours so that someone would always have charge of the children. Four years later, she left the university with her bachelor's degree. She then attended Cornell Umver-- See IMPROVED, Page 8A Cable company awaits city franchise decision By Julie Wright Mlssourian staff writer Why would a cable company with only 1,000 subscribers want to chal-lenge a division of Wesungbouse7 John Beatty, president of Boone County Cable, says the answer is as simple as picking up the phone. " We had so many Columbians calling to request our service," be says, that it only seemed logical to tap the Colombia market " We saw en opportunity and we took it," explains Steve Cream, local manager for Boone County Cable. " We live in Columbia, we know what is gong on I have Group W ca-ble at home." Boone County Cable made its move to enter the city's cable busi-ness last September, but saw little progress toward receiving a fran-chise until the company began circu-lating an initiative petition on Jan. 26. The City Council's cable tele-vision subcommission since ben has prepared a resolution that would give Boom County Cable a franchise identical to Group Ws The council may consider the resolution Monday night. I Last week, however, city counsel-or Dave Evans said that be, Boone County Cable and the cable subcom-mittee chairman, Councilman Pat Barnes, had reached a compromise that wfll be discussed at the pre- coun- cfl dinner Monday. The compro-mise would change the city's cable regulations and would delete the pro-vision requiring cable -- companies to wire areas in which there are SO po-tential subscribers per mile. That provision, Boone County Cable says, makes it impossible for the company to compete in Columbia. Boone County Cable was estab-lished in July 1981 by Columbia law-yers Larry Woods, Carl Sapp, Scott Orr and electronic engineer Andy Anderson. The three lawyers, along with Beatty, had been involved in the cable busmess- sinc- e 1966. Beatty owned and managed the Sedalia ca-ble system twice during the 1970s. The goal of the company in its in-fancy was to serve homes in north-- See FIRST, Page 7A Space shuttle delays launch of 2nd satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ( UPI) Numerous chunks of space debns trailing Challenger around the Earth appear to be all that is left of the $ 75 million Western Union satellite launched Friday by the shuttle as-tronauts, project officials said Satur-day Some of the Air Force's most pow-erful radar units located ' two large and many smaller objects," some drifting as close as about 30 miles to the shuttle The location of the de-bris was further proof that Westar 6 failed to climb to its proper orbit af-ter launch Friday A spokesman for the North Ameri-can Aerospace Defense Command said none oE the orbiting pieces posed any threat to the shuttle and ' astronaut. Vance Brand, Robert ' iHoofGlbson, Bruce McCamBess, RonftlaMcNalr and Robert Stewart. Flight director Randy Stone said there was a possibility the crew might be asked to maneuver the shuttle closer to confirm that the or-biting objects were the remains of Westar 6 Jfe said, however, that the shuttle probably wouldn't have enough fuel to conduct such an un-precedented orbital inspection. The astronauts were told to delay at least until Sunday the launch of an identical communications satellite for Indonesia Mission controllers said the eight- da- y flight could be ex-tended another day if a further post-ponement was necessary The astronauts were told at 4 20 pm CST that project officials wouldn't let them know until Sunday morning whether the Indonesia sa-tellite would be launched Sunday or be delayed until Monday Stone said there also was a possi-bility the Indonesian satellite man-agers might decide to have the shut-tle bring their spacecraft back to Earth, rather than risk deployment with the same system that apparent-ly failed on Westar E The astronauts took advantage of the delay to spend more time on ex-periments and then inspected the spacesuits that McCandless and Stewart will wear on next week's free- flyin- g spacewalks The shuttle was 9 8 miles behind and 7 1 miles above Westar when the satellite's orbit- raisin- g rocket was to have fired Fnday. The ship's win-dows, however, were pointed away deliberately to avoid exhaust con-tamination, and the astronauts could not see what happened. Engineers were trying to solve the mystery of what went wrong with the 21 foot- lon- g Westar, which was insured for approximately $ 100 mil-lion, before the spacemen launch the Indonesian satellite known as Pala- p- a Bill Zegler, Western Union's mis-sion manager, speculated that Wes-tar 6 could have spun out of control like a flaming pinwheel when the sa-tellite's solid propellant rocket mo-tor fired or the rocket could have ex-ploded Until the debris is identified, how-ever, there is always a chance the satellite could stall be close to its planned orbit and might be salvage-able, ne said. He sad attempts to contact fbe- sa- teDltetadbeenunsuce- ssful. Westars. deployment from the shuttle appeared normal, but engi-neers were unable to confirm that the satellite's rocket motor fired properly The $ 8 million rocket, called a payload assist module, was supposed to have pushed the satellite toward an orbit 22,300 miles high The Palapa also depends on such a rocket to reach the nght spot in space Four similar satellites using identical rockets have been success-fully launched from the shuttle and are now in proper stationary orbits. Western Union officials said then- tot- al investment in Westar 6 was be-tween $ 75 million and $ 80 million, in-cluding costs of the satellite, launch, the payload assist module, insurance and a penalty the company had to pay for canceling a contract to have the satellite launched by the Euro-pean Space Agency's Anane rocket Westar 6 was to be the third ad-vanced Western Union communica-tions satellite in orbit and the first of that series to be earned aloft by the shuttle Earlier Westars were boost-ed into orbit by Delta rockets, which the shuttle was designed to replace Palapa, the Indonesian satellite, is similar in design to Westar S and is to be a link in a communications sa-tellite system designed to unify Indo-nesia, the world's largest archipela-go The system relays television, tele-phone and data transmissions over a wide area of Southeast Asia, includ-ing the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bah, Singapore, Malaysia and Thai-land, and reaches as far as the Phil-ippines The death of a 4- year- - old boy By Carlos A. Briceno Mlssourian staff writer Shortly after bis birth, Daryn Wilson was diagnosed as having leukemia. For three years, he and bis mother, Nancy, traveled regu-larly from their modest, ranch- styl- e home in a rural subdivision near Moberly to the University Hospital for treatment They often stayed overnight in one of the apartments maintained for that purpose by the CandTelighters or-ganization. The cancer went into remission last year. In December, Daryn was one of three boys chosen to appear in a fund- raisi- ng broadcast for the CandJelighters on Channel 13 The Wilsons returned to Univer-sity Hospital Jan 9, this tune for Daryn to undergo- - surgery to cor-rect his undescended testicles The surgical procedure is considered safe and simple. The mortality rate is described by experts as being ' infirutesimally low." The hospital did not keep Daryn overnight He and his mother went back to the fa-- i ' It was unexpected I couldn't believe it' miliar Candlehghters apartment There, on the morning of Jan 10, Daryn Wilson died His death resulted, according to Medical Examiner Jay Dix, from " internal bleeding resulting from a complication of the surgery " Dix said he plans no investigation be-yond the autopsy because he has no indication that Daryn's deathi in-volved any wrongdoing. He added, " I don't think there was medical malpractice." Little more is known publicly about the circumstances of the death. Dix said his final report will not be finished for four to six weeks An internal review commit-tee is studying the case for the hos-pital. Neither result is likely to be made public. The Wilsons have lured a lawyer, Thomas R. Oswald of KjrksvQle, to investigate The operation, which is called an orchiopexy, is " usually an easy op-eration to perform with an infini-tesimal mortality rate," said James E Bumgarner, the senior physician at Urology Consultants, 3401 Berrywood Drive " Any risk involved from this type of surgery is usually from the anesthetic, but not from the opera-tion," he said When told that a 4- year- - old boy had died from an internal hem-orrhage after such an operation, he replied, " I have been m business for 30 years, and I have never heard of one death " Gilbert Ross, a staff surgeon at the University Hospital, agreed that the mortality rate from an or-chiopexy is " infintfesimally low, mcrediblylow." The National Center for Health Statistics in Washington does not record mortality rates for orchio-pexy. The center's figures show only that in 1982 there were 32,000 of the operations performed in this country Ross estimated that 40 to 50 are performed each year in Co-lumbia As safe and as common as it is, the operation requires hospitahza- - l tion, Bumgarner said " I personal-ly feel all patients should stay over-night"' It is " more than an appendix op-eration but less than a gall bladder operation, both of which require hospitalization." Usually, he said, " patients that undergo this type of surgery should be kept in the hospital up to a week Only if it's extremely easy to bring down the testicles should the pa-tient be released sooner." Ross said that " depending on the complexity of the operation, the pa-tient can go home that evening, but in many cases that's impractical since the child may experience dis-comfort and the parents may not be able to help." Donald Silver, head of surgery at the University Hospital, could not be reached for comment despite numerous attempts The hospital would not release the name of the surgeon who performed the opera-- See HOSPITAL, Page 8A I |