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...haters delight in announcing that a Siamese will not faithfully drool in your lap for a kind word like a Labrador retriever. Even the most fervid owners of felines can be surprised-almost to cardiac arrest-by their pets' peculiarities. Your cat lurks in the dark attic just when you thought you were alone. As a form of endearment, he may jump on your shoulder from the top of the refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit...
...deal with the explosion in technological and scientific knowledge. Among the 8,128 continuing medical education courses available this year, doctors can choose such seminars as a five-day sports medicine conclave at Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, or a three-day course in "Management of the Acute Cardiac Patient" at Chicago's not so glamorous Cook County Hospital. Colleges and universities have also entered the seminar business. At U.C.L.A. 1,800 people paid $80 each last spring to attend weeklong symposiums on molecular biology...
...evening the child was having convulsions and had lost consciousness temporarily. She was rushed to nearby Baptist Hospital of Miami, where a neurologist performed a lumbar puncture, inserting a needle between vertebrae in the lower back to get a sample of cerebrospinal fluid. Within an hour Becky went into cardiac and respiratory arrest. She was put on a life-support system, but soon after was declared dead...
Typically the clinics handle 60 patients a day. A customer simply walks in, fills out a registration form, then sits down in a large, well-lit room until the nurse ushers him into one of several treatment areas: a "crash room" equipped with cardiac defibrillators and respirators for the rare patients who arrive with serious problems, an orthopedic room equipped to deal with fractures and sprains, a "suture bay" for minor lacerations, or an X-ray room...
...unfortunate that your article put its total focus on medication and surgery. One of the newest forms of treating heart disease is cardiac rehabilitation, which focuses not only on heart patients' physical well-being but also on their vocational and emotional status...