Word: chalfant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surgeon Graham that while in Pittsburgh he had had some teeth filled. Said Graham with a laugh: "I like an optimistic patient." Replied Gilmore: "Yes, but I ought to tell you that I also bought a cemetery lot." The patient had with him a gynecologist friend, Dr. Sidney A. Chalfant, who sat in the gallery of Graham's famed Operating Room No. 1, looking down on the proceedings...
...What he saw brought him up sharp. The cancer was not, as he had expected, confined to one lobe of the left lung but had its origin in the bronchus (one of the two major branches of the windpipe) supplying air to the entire lung. Graham looked up to Chalfant. "I'm not going to be able to remove the cancer without removing the whole lung," he said through the muffling layers of his mask. "What do you think about...
...Chalfant asked: "Has it ever been done before...