Word: anesthetist
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...Paluel Joseph Flagg, No. 1 U.S. anesthetist, recently warned his colleagues that in the Army & Navy the delicate work of administering anesthesia is often mishandled. Under present Army conditions the customary teamwork between surgeon and anesthetist does not exist. And without teamwork there may be trouble...
Biggest hump ahead was the personal income-tax rate. Still under consideration was Secretary Morgenthau's newest proposal: to have all who file a return pay a $5 head tax. The sales tax was asleep under an anesthetic that might wear off at any moment. Latest anesthetist was Price Boss Leon Henderson, who argued that the heaviest burden of a sales tax would fall on "persons whose standard of living is already below safe levels." But, while no one wanted to wreak injury on the very lowest income group, most New Dealers now argued that a sales...
...workers from Burma reached Manhattan last fortnight. Mrs. Seagrave was among them. She had brought her children back to the U.S. so that her husband could move freely with the Chinese Army, without worrying about his family. Until she left in January, she was her husband's chief anesthetist, once a week dodged bombs as ambulance chauffeur for a 170-mile run on the Burma Road...
...born; four years later came Charles Horace. The boys went everywhere with their father. When he performed operations, they were his assistants: Will acted as first assistant while Charlie stood by with needles and thread stuck in his lapels; before he was twelve, Charlie became his father's anesthetist. "We were reared in medicine," Dr. Will once said, "as a farmer boy is reared in farming...
...Bailey's routine: an incision is made just below the breastbone. The surgeon strokes the heart from below the diaphragm, "with quick forcible movement for half a minute." He withdraws his hand for a minute while the anesthetist injects adrenalin, then makes a bigger opening, starts squeezing the heart...