Word: cardiologist
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...camped last week at Vallecito, in Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Hemotologist Samuel Painter, who had camped in the rough before, this time had a rented trailer for his wife and four children because he wanted to save his pregnant wife the heavy work of tent camping. Cardiologist James Conrad and his wife and two children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping the children discover some wonderful birds-a hoarse raven that flapped over the yellow pines, a broad-tailed hummingbird...
...p.p.m. in the fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly got worse and proved harder to treat. The hospital engineer, without telling the medical staff, had decided to make the laundry workers happy by softening the water with a sodium salt...
...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...
Very few Americans in Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
...piled up evidence that anti-clotting drugs help to prolong the lives of heart-attack victims by preventing subsequent attacks: in five years only 20% of patients so treated died, 14% of them from heart attacks, while in a comparison group, untreated, 53% died and 60% had further attacks. Cardiologist Manchester also reported on a new anti-clotting drug, Sintrom, valuable because it can be taken by mouth in small doses and works fast...