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Such obvious thrusts at such obvious targets hardly make for brilliant satire. But as monotonously intoned by singer Jeannie C. Riley on a tiny Nashville label called Plantation Records, P.T.A. is the runaway hit single of the late summer and autumn. It seems to have tapped a new anti-middle...
Equalizing the Flow. Unlike previous work with pig organs, Groote Schuur's procedure involved not only the animal's liver but its entire circulatory system, heart and all. And the doctors did not kill the animal first. To prepare the baboon, a robust 57-lb. male, they put...
Bedside nurses become familiar faces to a patient recovering from surgery. But the operating-room nurses on whom his life once depended are at most only masked, nameless figures, seen dimly, if at all, through an anesthetic haze. Last week, at the usually unremarkable annual meeting of the Association of...
Documentary in style, Poor Cow opens with a closeup of Joy (Carol White) in pain. She writhes and thrashes, panting. A nurse puts an anesthetic mask over her face, and the camera moves down her body as the doctor's hands deliver the child and start it breathing. Though...
Pumping on Signal. Surgeons injected a local anesthetic into the patient's thigh and cut into the femoral artery. They then threaded a flexible plastic tube up the artery and the aorta until a deflated balloon at its end was about level with the heart (see diagram). The outside...