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...painkillers may be administered to ease the patient's lot and the surgeon's task. Even in minor surgery, drugs are used lavishly to prevent discomfort. But even the best of the new techniques carry their own hazards. Last week two top Boston anesthesia experts, Henry K. Beecher and Donald Todd, laid down evidence that modern anesthesia is killing not only pain but is still killing a shockingly high percentage of patients...
Should curare and other risky medications (e.g., thiopental, cyclopropane) be banned from the hospitals? Beecher and Todd think not. But they urge that the drugs "available at present be considered on trial . . . employed only when there are clear advantages to be gained." The doctors regard anesthesia as a public-health problem. Applied to the entire U.S., the mortality rate uncovered by Beecher and Todd indicates that some 5,100 Americans die each year from anesthesia...
...been eleven weeks since the great tornado ripped through the suburbs of Flint, Mich., killing 113, injuring 547, and destroying $12 million worth of property (TIME, June 22). The residents of Beecher Township, hardest hit by the storm, had been struggling to rebuild their homes. But only foundations and a few frames stood among the ugly scars of destruction. Then, in less than 48 hours last weekend, Beecher Township rose from the ruins...
Sunday night the volunteers brought in an orchestra and danced in the Beecher school gymnasium, roofless since the tornado. The night was furnace-hot. Everyone had worked for two days in near-100° temperatures, and tomorrow was Monday. But no one seemed to mind. The rebuilders of Beecher Township felt just fine dancing under the stars...
...nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved to Boston to become the salaryless co-editor and co-owner of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent...