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...only 7 a.m., but the operating room in Cleveland Clinic's cardiovascular unit was going full tilt. Nurses, technicians and visiting doctors watched as members of a surgical team took their places around the operating table. With confidence born of experience, the surgeons made a vertical incision from the patient's collarbone to his diaphragm, sawed through his breastbone and then, using a framelike mechanism, spread the rib cage and exposed the pericardium, or heart...
...operations worked moderately well. But what revolutionized revascularization was a procedure developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. René Favaloro, now 48, an Argentine-born surgeon who joined Effler in 1962 to study coronary-artery disease. In an operation first performed four years ago next week, he removed a section of his patient's saphenous vein, attached one end to the blocked right coronary artery at a point below the obstruction, stitched the other to a spot on the aorta above the blockage. The procedure allowed blood to bypass the blockage and greatly improved the heart...
...Here he finds engineers and behavioral scientists assembling a future that they intend to inflict upon us whether we want it or not. Others before Thompson have pointed out the horrors of technocracy, but seldom with such a combination of pique and precision. (Example: "M.I.T. needs a large psychiatric clinic because the effect of technological training is to do to the psyche what industry does to the environment.") Thompson's perceptions may be partly explained by the fact that he once taught humanities at M.I.T., surely a soul-shattering experience...
...nine years, Wacker worked part-time in a clinic to treat alcoholics, where his primary task was to "establish some sort of confidence with the patient...
...associate professor of Medicine, Wacker teaches part of the "Introduction to Clinic"-the Medical School's equivalent to a General Education requirement at the College. For the past two and one-half years, he has directed PBBH's house staff committee of interns and residents-a post involving a great deal of contact with recent medical school graduates...