Word: cardiologist
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...recalls, for example, that his original cardiologist in Minneapolis carelessly neglected to look at his EKG for six days. Then, when he finally did, he abruptly announced that if delicate heart X rays he was about to take confirmed his suspicions, Nolen might have to undergo surgery the very next day. Refusing to be stampeded, Nolen left Minneapolis and headed for Boston's famed Massachusetts General Hospital to get another medical opinion...
...offer the scope, either financially or intellectually, that the émigrés are seeking. Says Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a former Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1958: "In Israel, you deal with Israel. In the U.S., you deal with the U.S., the world-and Israel." Cardiologist Yzhar Charuzi says that his career would have been stunted if he had remained in Israel. "Here I have my opportunities," says Charuzi, now head of the coronary-care unit at Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital...
...flight even after he quit the Air Force in 1963 and took over as NASA's director of flight-crew operations, winch made inm boss of all the astronauts. A physical-fitness nut who runs-not jogs-a brisk two miles a day, Slayton finally found a cardiologist who was willing to certify inm for space-and a coveted seat on the joint flight. Says the graying space rookie: "For some people life begins at 40; for me it's going to be more like...
After his internship, Laragh combined research with clinical practice " ("You learn more from patients than you do from samples in a laboratory"). As a cardiologist, he concentrated most of his efforts on the workings-and failings-of the heart. But he also looked elsewhere in the circulatory system, and in 1955 he made an important discovery: he learned that increases in the blood levels of potassium can stimulate the production of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that raises blood pressure by causing the kidneys to retain salt...
...fever may also bring on a form of heart dis ease. Doctors have long been looking for causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only relatively recently, however, that some have noted a link between birds and heart problems. To examine the connection, Cardiologist Christopher Ward and Immunologist Anthony M. Ward (no kin) questioned 257 patients under treat ment for valvular heart disease. They found that 125 had had rheumatic fe ver or a related ailment. But they fur ther discovered that of the 132 with no history of these illnesses...