Word: cardiologist
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...star of the show was Cardiologist Edward Diethrich, 47, the deeply tanned, photogenic director of the Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix. Among his previous credits: performing triple-bypass surgery on Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater last year. Diethrich's co-star and patient was Bernard Schuler, 62, a retired insurance salesman, who spends his winters in an Arizona trailer park. Schuler, a smoker for 41 years, had suffered a mild heart attack in 1977. A continued buildup of fatty deposits in his coronary arteries made him a prime candidate for a more serious second attack. Schuler's physicians recommended...
With that exuberant commendation, Cardiologist Paul Walter of Emory University endorsed the selection of his former colleague John Darsee for one of the biggest plums in academic medicine: an appointment to the Harvard Medical School faculty. Darsee's career to that point had been a nonstop flight from modest origins in Huntington, W. Va., to professional glory at age 31 as a research fellow at Harvard. Arriving in 1979, he performed brilliantly, producing five papers in 15 months, all published in major journals. In 1981 Dr. Eugene Braunwald, an eminent cardiologist at the university, began action to place Darsee...
...lawyer, William McKenney: "The public thinks that when they see a blue uniform they can take a punch at it, that the police officer can take it. But police officers want to be treated as human beings." Nor was money the whole point when Elliott Jones, widow of Washington Cardiologist and Author Michael Halberstam, sued her husband's killer, a millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones won a $5.7 million award, but the IRS has first claim on Welch's assets. Even if she never gets a penny, Jones found a different recompense. "It gives you a certain...
This was a dramatic change indeed for the man who had been so close to death that his heart implant was performed ten hours ahead of schedule. Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, the Utah cardiologist who had arranged the fateful first meeting of his patient and DeVries, recalls that when Clark's heart was carefully cut out of his body and set in a stainless steel tray it was still quivering. Says Anderson: "It was an irreversible step. From then on everyone was going on faith that the machine would work...
...admitted he kept in touch with Chock Full through his wife. They said he had not attended a directors' meeting since August 1981, and knew the names of only four of his fellow directors. They charged also that Chock Full's president, Leon Pordy, Black's cardiologist, still ran a Park Avenue practice...