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Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon Moses Benmosché of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Surgeon Benmosché believes that patients have more guts when they are told more about them. This week Dr. Benmosché published the first popular primer of surgery: A Surgeon Explains to the Layman (Simon & Schuster; $3). His book is chock-full of bold diagrams, simple descriptions of operations. Dr. Benmosché's bookside manner is calm and reassuring, should serve as a tonic for healthy-minded patients. Sample information...
Gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, "are rather pretty to look at once they are out -very similar to roughly rounded, uncut, semiprecious stones . . . [in] various shades of yellow, pink or green with red flecks. . . . Some may be microscopic in size, others as large as a hen's egg. And a patient may be suffering from just one large gallstone or from a thousand tiny ones...
...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...
Stomach Ulcers. An ulcer is a sore on the stomach wall, always accompanied by an excessive flow of hydrochloric acid. To the question "Why ulcers?" Dr. Benmosché frankly answers: "We don't know." Most doctors blame alcohol, cigarets and nerves...
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