Word: braunwald
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physics, yesterday received the American Heart Association's 1972 Research Achievement Award at its 45th annual convention in Dallas, Texas...
...award honored Braunwald as "an investigator, teacher and author whose contribution to cardiovascular physiology and clinical cardiology has been extraordinary...
...Braunwald's work has resulted in improved diagnostic techniques for coronary patients. He has also studied the effects on the heart produced by different drugs and levels of stress...
...Braunwald expanded the use of digitalis by showing that the drug could help patients with weak but functioning hearts. Prior to his study, doctors had administered it only during heart failure...
...things are gradually changing, even in surgery. "When I started medical school in 1948," Nina Braunwald recalls, "a woman would think about surgery 116 times and probably decide against it. Today she'll think about it 100 times and feel that there is some possibility of success." Like most women in medicine, Dr. Braunwald finds that acceptance by male colleagues varies. "The more intelligent a male doctor is," she says, "the less he minds...