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...independent operating clinics [Sept. 5] reminded me of my home leave from Africa six years ago, when I consulted a physician about removing a benign but unsightly tumor from my arm. He said I would have to enter the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, have surgery Thursday afternoon (general anesthesia), and maybe I would go home Friday afternoon. I opted not to have the surgery. Back in Africa, I consulted a physician at a mission hospital, where I went in for surgery at 4 p.m. (local anesthesia), walked out at 5:30 p.m. and never had any problems...
Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...
...uses about 30 dogs annually; the Physiology department expects first year medical students to participate in it, and provides no alternatives to witnessing the dissection and ultimate death of these dogs. Cases of vivisected dogs in the lab waking from anesthesia have been recorded; the surgical procedures can last several hours; these procedures are well explained in textbooks; and the end product is not healing, but rather death. How unfortunate that medical students' first brush with surgery counts life so cheaply...
Members have branched out to their own groups as well in subjects such as egg painting and book discussion. Shelley Sage, who recently came to Harvard from New Zealand with her husband, a Medical School instructor in anesthesia, says this group and the Neighbors helped her find friends and adjust to this country...
...were going to have.' I'm not grim, but I'm still basically cringing from the defect. I remember kids sniggering and smirking-they called me Hopalong-and it has only been in recent years that I've pulled myself out of a certain anesthesia...