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...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. A rogue philosopher whose comic novels also bite, Burgess conducts a tour along the perimeters of reality...
...contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast around the stump and up Myers' thigh. Into the cast they built an aluminum socket, ready for insertion of a temporary aluminum column of adjustable length...
...boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate Myers' leg and get him walking-fast...
...British Novelist Anthony Burgess flew home from Brunei, where he had spent five years as an educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
Prime Vintage. A late-blooming novelist whose thoughts invariably run deeper than his plots, Burgess, 49, seems to be rekindling the nominalist argument that ignited scholars in the Middle Ages: Does a thing achieve reality only after it has a name...