Word: anesthesiologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moneysaving aspects of the idea. Hernia repair, for example, can cost an inpatient more than $600 in costs, exclusive of doctor's fees, at Detroit's St. John Hospital. An outpatient would pay only $301, most of it for the use of the operating room and the anesthesiologist's fees...
Standing Up. Anesthesiologist Barbara Lipton encountered a typical response while interning at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She held retractors for a neurosurgeon during a particularly long operation. The surgeon, duly impressed with her perseverance, sent her a Christmas greeting: "To one of the boys." Says Pediatrician-Hematologist Darleen Powars: "There are hundreds of ways to discourage woman surgeons. There's no place for a woman resident to sleep. And if you want to urinate some other way than standing up, you have a problem...