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...press, he spoke freely of the patient's bowel movements. To many, this was shocking, but White, a sage and proper Yankee, was speaking with a purpose: he was getting across to a mass audience the value of normal body functions as a sign of a cardiac patient's recovery. White was often accused of sensationalism and publicity seeking, but this candor was his way of promoting the cause of preventive cardiology...
...specialists in breadth, rather than depth," says Dr. Jerry Hughes, 35, a Viet Nam veteran who serves as director of emergency services at St. Mary's Long Beach Hospital in California. "I may open a patient's chest to massage his heart, but it's the cardiac surgeon who is going to put in the plastic aorta. Our job is to keep the patient alive...
...occur before age 65 and are thus considered premature. Most of these younger victims, as well as a portion of those who are over 65, could have useful, satisfying years added to their lives if their hearts were repaired. Otherwise, even if they survive, they are likely to become cardiac cripples...
...life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes through it all beautiful and oblivious, doing a dirty job with imperturbable elegance...
...takes only 20 to 30 minutes without circulation to damage the heart--precious time when the organ is being rushed to a specialized operating room and a suitable patient. Organ banks will only make the shortage of donors more dramatic, and hospital wards will continue to be filled by cardiac patients hoping for the extraordinarily good luck of a healthy stranger running into extraordinarily bad luck nearby...