Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American College of Surgeons-which, like the Brigham. is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year-is composed of specialists who believe that the exercise of their art or craft requires concentrated training. The A.C.S. now has more than 25,000 fellows
...that definition even while an undergraduate, Francis Moore wrote both book and music for the Hasty Pudding's 1934 show, Hades, the Ladies, and played a male lead. He now plays many leads: as the one man ultimately responsible for all the surgery done at the Brigham by scores of highly trained surgeons; as secretary of Harvard's joint surgical 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...
Knife in the Heart. Perhaps partly by chance, but largely because of Moore's drive and leadership, the great eruption of pioneering progress that is still continuing at the Brigham began soon after he took over as chief. Says one of its most articulate surgeons: "This little place, with only 284 beds, has made more contributions...
...toughness of the human heart and its ability to withstand intrusion had made a deep impression on Brigham Surgeon Dwight Harken during World War II, when he removed shell fragments from servicemen's hearts. His main postwar concern has been with heart valves, especially mitral valves that have been damaged by rheumatic fever. In 1948, he was one of a few bold surgeons who first dared to slip a finger, with a tiny surgical knife at the tip, into a beating heart to separate the leaflets of a mitral valve partly closed by scarring...
...valve replacement. By now. Dr. Harken has implanted 47 heart valve replacements and many hundreds of similar heart valve operations have been done across the U.S. Human Substitute. Aside from Dr. Harken's work, most of the pioneering in heart surgery has been done away from the Brigham, though some of it only a block away at Children's Hospital. There in 1938, Dr. Robert E. Gross led the way toward heart surgery with his pioneering patent-ductus operation (to shut off a vessel that is necessary during fetal life, but should close automatically soon after birth...