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The experience of the California housewife has become increasingly common as hospitals in growing numbers turn to outpatient (involving no overnight stay) surgery. That procedure, designed to cope with rising costs and the great demand for beds, was pioneered by the 258-bed Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in suburban Wakefield, Mass...
Luckily, the infant had four sisters; one of them had cells similar to his. Using a local anesthetic, Good's team inserted a needle into the bone of the sister's leg and withdrew about a billion marrow cells. Then, they injected the cells into David's peritoneal cavity, relying...
This is not to invalidate the legend or to dismiss its power. It is simply necessary to see the legend whole, as a potential moral force not a national anesthetic. As William Butler Yeats observed: "In dreams begins responsibility." Over there, the dreamers conceived the American idea; they dream it...
Severed Circle. As a technical procedure, however, vasectomy is simplicity itself. After administering a local anesthetic, the doctor locates the vas deferens, the thin (3-mm. diameter) tube that carries sperm from the testicle to the seminal vesicle, where it is mixed with other components of the semen (see diagram...
The reasons for such reactions vary considerably. Oxygen deprivation during surgery, leading to identifiable brain disturbances, explains only a handful of cases. Many problems appear to be emotional in origin. Most patients go into such operations with anxiety, sometimes depression over both the risks and the results. Those who survive...