Word: anesthetist
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...Quick Cut. A few minutes without oxygen would damage his brain beyond repair, so there was no time to take him to a sterile operating room. The anesthetist promptly slipped a tube through the patient's mouth into the windpipe, started pumping oxygen into it. Dr. Owens grabbed a scalpel and cut open the left chest. He reached in, pushed the left lung aside and grasped the patient's heart. Sixty times a minute he squeezed the heart, "with the pressure applied from the bottom up, like milking a cow backwards." With each squeeze, blood was pumped through...
...later Dr. Stanley finally got the up-to-date, four-story hospital San Quentin boasts today. Over the years he had also brought a new standard of medical care to the convicts. Stanley began using spinal anesthesia (which he could administer unaided) long before most doctors, because the prison anesthetist (a convict) was a drunkard who habitually drank up all the medical alcohol in the surgery...
...night in 1908, for instance, at a time when confinements, complete with delivery, grossed him $8 apiece, he traveled by streetcar through a blizzard to help a young mother give birth to triplets. All were forceps deliveries. Midway through the business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne epidemic that felled almost a fifth of his town...
Last week Herndon told the District of Columbia Dental Society how he deals with sufferers from "burr psychosis": he puts them to sleep. He has an anesthetist and two other assistants to help him, and a dental chair that can be converted into an operating table...
...week and still no Mayor. With 841 sterile ballots to their credit since January 5th, the nine-man City Council is eagerly looking forward to the thousand mark, at which time, it is reported, each member will receive a complimentary copy of "Laughing Gas" by Dr. O. H. Schneiderman, anesthetist at Bregman Memorial Hospital...