Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurtured a frontiersman's egalitarian ideas: residents in surgery (M.D.s who have finished their internship and are in specialist training) should be encouraged to use both their hands and their heads. The most brilliant product of Halsted's revolutionary residency system was the great brain surgeon...
...departments, covering five hospitals; as director of a many faceted research program. There is even a trace of the thespian in the way he lectures-never still, always holding the students' eyes as well as their minds, somehow managing to draw a laugh with such lines as "the brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous...
...restore full circulation to the brain when there is critical narrowing in an accessible artery in the neck. His colleague, Dr. Cooley, did the first operation to remove an aneurysm (a thin, ballooned-out section) from the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. He tried putting a patient on the heart-lung machine two years ago while he removed a "pulmonary embolism," a usually fatal blood clot in the pulmonary artery. Now. with three successes logged, Cooley believes the procedure should be made generally available, with disposable oxygen kits ready in all major hospitals...
...insulin, would be a boon to a diabetic. Dr. Moore is already making experimental transplants of whole livers between dogs. In Denver, two months ago. Colorado General Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital surgeons attempted the first human liver transplant, from a girl of ten. who died of a brain tumor, to a boy of three. The boy died of profuse bleeding...
...pain in his legs. He did not know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...