Word: brodeur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis' Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, to have kidney tests. Terrified that new X-ray pictures would show her chronic condition to be getting worse, she lay rigidly on the examining table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that his hands were empty, Brodeur reached down and pulled a cotton ball from...
Employing a combination of show business and sleight of hand to charm and relax his patients is routine for Brodeur, 51, who is both a radiologist and an active member of the Society of American Magicians. Aware that a hospital is a bewildering and often frightening place for a sick child, he has been trying, since assuming his position in 1959, to minimize children's fears by making "this place and myself not look Like a hospital...
...Brodeur began by redecorating his department. He placed a sign reading ROENTGEN STREET (after the discoverer of X rays) in the corridor leading to the radiology unit. Bare hospital walls were covered with giant murals of characters from children's books and television programs-Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown and his friends, and the Flintstones. The X-ray machine was labeled "Batman's Superanalyzer," and nurses were given brightly colored smocks...
Arthur W. Brodeur, director of Public Information at Cornell, said yesterday that the sake of the 93,500 shares was in keeping with the investment policy statement drafted by the Cornell trustees in April...