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Each year Doctors Robert Crosthwait and Robert Angel perform more than one hundred and twenty coronary artery bypass operations at Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. Once the patient is anesthetized, his chest is opened and his heart is connected to a heart lung machine which will maintain the body's circulation while the heart is stopped. In the photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other...
...theory, overshadowed by mounting evidence that atherosclerotic disease was a major cause of cardiac attacks. Then, in 1970, doctors got "the first eyeball look at an episode of coronary spasm." At the University of California in Los Angeles, Cardiologist Albert Kattus and his team were doing a coronary bypass operation on a woman when suddenly one of the vessels began to constrict. As that happened, Kattus recalls, "we could feel that her coronary artery was tough like twine instead of soft and pliable...
...committee supported Wilcox's proposal to allow students who only qualify for one Core exemption to choose for themselves other course they may bypass...
...Educational Resources Group (ERG) heard of the committee's troubles this week and panicked. ERG members sent the committee a letter reminding it of Rosovsky's guarantee. Some Core committee members believe that "hard science" concentrators will not be able to bypass the "life science" part of the Core. These concentrators then would only qualify for a half-course exemption in Science A, reducing their Core requirement to nine, not eight half-courses...
...Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum is having difficulty determining which portions of the Core students may bypass because of concentration requirements, Edward T. Wilcox, spokesman for the committee, said yesterday...