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...when an anesthetist was usually an undertrained nurse-technician, who merely slapped a mask on a patient's face or jabbed a needle into his arm, has passed. Modern anesthesiology has been developed, mainly in the past 15 years, to a complex discipline. In the best medical centers, the anesthesiologist ranks with the internist and the surgeon, has equal responsibility for the patient's care and survival. Said a noted chest surgeon recently: "The anesthesiologist is the forgotten hero. The surgeon gets the glory, but without the anesthesiologist's skill the surgeon wouldn't get very...
...outpatients. In addition, its four roadside bus clinics took care of 33,817 villagers. Widely recognized as one of the best in India, Vellore Hospital has topflight specialists from four continents and dispenses the latest wonder drugs. But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition...
...room, the King was injected with an anesthetic (probably sodium pentothal) by Anesthetist Robert Machray. He was wheeled to the operating room and, if Surgeon Price Thomas followed his customary procedure, laid out three-quarters prone, his left side propped up slightly with pillows...
...sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread, but not removed, to give the surgeon's hands more room.) The snipped rib was laid in a waste pan for the "un-sterile nurse" to take away. Anesthetist Machray placed a rubber tube in the King's windpipe to supply an anesthetic gas (such as cyclopropane), under positive pressure, to keep the lungs inflated...
Secretly the Shah summoned Dr. Claude Forkner of Cornell University to Iran and, on Forkner's recommendation for an immediate appendectomy, sent off to the U.S. for New York Hospital's Surgeon in Chief Frank Glenn, plus another U.S. surgeon, plus an expert anesthetist, plus three U.S. nurses...