Word: cardiologist
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...heart; Russell will be only 45 this week. Also, Blaiberg's heart disease was of long standing and had damaged other major organ systems before the transplant, but Russell's heart attacks, in 1962 and 1965, had caused no such widespread difficulties. Finally, in 1968, Indianapolis Cardiologist Robert Chevalier diagnosed heart disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower had worked at Stanford University with Dr. Norman Shumway devising, in animals, the transplant technique...
...rosters are manned by experienced physicians on the faculty, including some with national reputations. They include Dr. John Kirklin, former chief of surgery at the Mayo Clinic and now chief of surgery at the medical college; Dr. T. Joseph Reeves, chief of medicine at the college and a renowned cardiologist; and Dr. Thomas W. Sheehy, formerly a medical adviser for the U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, now director of MIST and professor of medicine at the college. They take on the extra duty without pay, have already dealt with scores of cases ranging from heart blocks to overdoses...
Later, complains Cardiologist Irvine H. Page, a past president of the American Heart Association, the "circus trappings and glitter" surrounding the transplants set off a rush among surgeons to join "the me-too brigade." Many surgeons concede that by no means were all of the 36 medical centers in 16 countries that have tried transplants well-enough staffed or equipped to do so. Yet despite all the failures, Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other man, defends the operations. He points to what happened after early, unsuccessful attempts at heart-valve surgery...
...certainty whether a man will have a heart attack, or when. Until such prevision becomes possible, doctors must rely heavily on the electrocardiograph, which, although not much of a predictor, is a smart detective. It can usually reveal whether a heart has been damaged, and with these clues the cardiologist can prescribe care and treatment for patients who seem to run the greatest risks of heart attacks. Yet the electrocardiograph has identified only a fraction of the nation's ailing hearts...
...simplified electrocardiograph. By comparing a subject's graph with fixed standards that have been programmed into the machine beforehand, it can detect abnormal electrical activity in the heart. When it -does so, warning lights flash on, and the technician knows that this patient must be referred to the cardiologist...