Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Past Hasty Pudding Men and Women of the Year include Warren Beatty, Bette Midler, Valerie Harper, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hep burn, Jane Fonda and Liz Micelle...
...years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...Debbie, a pretty, blonde two-year-old from New Jersey, was playing with matches when her clothing suddenly caught fire. More than 90% of her body was burned, but doctors at Boston's Shriners Institute, a special burn center for youngsters, refused to give up on her. She underwent eight major operations, received 270 pints (128 liters) of blood and spent a total of 114 days at the hospital. Debbie still bears the scars of the accident, but she is beginning nursery school and resuming a normal life...
...Bruce, 14, and his two friends were so eager to set up a CB antenna atop his home near Chicago that they failed to notice a nearby power line. When the antenna brushed against the high-voltage wire, Bruce's two friends were electrocuted, and he was burned so severely that doctors at the burn unit of Chicago's Cook County Hospital had to amputate his legs and an arm. But their treatment saved Bruce's life, and now, fitted with prosthetic devices, he is taking golf lessons...
...William Curreri, director of the new 24-bed burn facility at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, points out that only a generation ago the chances of survival were minuscule for anyone with burns over as much as a third of his body. Says he: "Today, 30% is considered a readily treatable burn in skilled hands. Even if a young, healthy person has burns over three-quarters of the body, his chances of survival are about 50%." A major reason for this remarkable improvement is the emergence of a whole new branch of medicine. A few years ago, only...