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This personal world of housecalls and stethoscopes in black bags is gone. "Instead of spending forty-five minutes listening to the chest and palpating the abdomen, the doctor can sign a slip which sends the patient off to the X-ray department for a CT scan," Thomas observes, continuing later that "the doctor can set himself, if he likes, at a distance, remote from the patient and the family, never touching anyone beyond a perfunctory handshake as the first and only contact...
...fall outside, Clark was wheeled into a specially equipped surgical suite. Already assembled was a 17-member team with Jarvik as an observer. Working quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from the breastbone to the abdomen and carefully completed the delicate task of connecting Clark to a heart-lung bypass machine that would pump and oxygenate his blood until the plastic heart was in place...
Late that afternoon, it is learned that the baby Palestine is living safely with her father's sister's family in Syria. Oddly enough, however, a new Lebanese baby has just been born under similar circumstances. The mother, shot in the abdomen, died as the child was delivered. The father is unknown. The boy, called Samer by the nurses, is olive skinned and weighs barely 4 Ibs. One has to hold it close to the chest to prevent it from slip ping through...
...brought in with part of his abdomen hanging outside his body. He was fully conscious. With his left hand he tried to scoop his intestines back inside...
Seeking an explanation for these findings, Kissebah examined fat and muscle biopsies taken from the abdomen and thighs of his subjects. He discovered that fat cells taken from the abdomen of upper-body-obese women were enlarged, appearing like so many overstuffed pillows. In lower-body obesity, by contrast, fat cells were normal in size, though excessive in number...