Word: cardiologist
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...News last week marched a strange procession. In the lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and two nurses. In the newspaper's morgue, Cardiologist Adamson opened his box and unveiled an electrocardiograph...
...disease but the patient has been senselessly partitioned. A man's brain, if he had a stroke, was in the province of the general internist. The gangrenous toes of his friend who suffered from Buerger's disease went to the angiologist. His heart belonged to the cardiologist, who grudgingly took responsibility for high blood pressure-but could do little for it. His kidneys were annexed by the urologist. Pleaded Dr. Page at New Orleans this week...
...Doctors are remiss too, said Dr. Page, in neglecting the early stages of the disease in their patients. As he put it: "The cardiologist [must] assume the burden of atherosclerosis, which he has so long and so successfully avoided in favor of taking care of its consequences." And on prescribing a low-fat or low-sodium diet, Dr. Page had more bitter words for the profession which sounded sweet to many a dieted layman. Dr. Page came to his conclusions the hard way: he made a drastic cut in the amount of fat he himself consumed. True, there followed...
There was also the Oregonian who was in such bad shape in 1952 that Chief Cardiologist William Likoff doubted that he could survive surgery. He and his wife insisted on it, and he had a tricky double operation. Now he spends eight or nine hours a day on horseback. There was also a Pennsylvanian who startled the doctors by saying that he had gone back to work in the coal mines. "Hell," he said, "that's the only job I know." In schoolgirl high spirits and 40 pounds heavier was Judith Schmidt, 12, who had been chilled...
...with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles under control, most of their patients are oldsters. Although more than 30,000,000 persons in the U. S. are over 45, few doctors really know how the process of aging changes the human body. Last week in the New York Academy of Medicine, Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, Neurologist Foster Kennedy of Cornell sounded off at a symposium on old hearts, old brains...