Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profile,' Surgeon Michael -DeBakey objected when Painter Henry Koerner asked him to turn his head aside...
Koerner painted his subject for this week's cover in four sittings at the Texas Medical Center's Methodist Hospital in Houston. One sitting was abruptly halted when DeBakey was summoned to a nearby operating room to help revive a patient whose heart had stopped beating. In surgical gown and mask, Koerner also studied and sketched DeBakey while he was performing several operations. For the background, Koerner chose the overhead lamp of an operating room and an oscilloscope that monitors a patient's heart and pulse. "I learn something from every operation," DeBakey says...
NEXT to operating, Dr. DeBakey likes most to talk about operations. In a recent session with fellow surgeons he had a new-old story to tell. In May of 1868, he said, a mounted scout rode up to an adobe building in Trinidad, Colo., marched into the office and asked: "Dr. Beshoar, will you please be here in two hours when General Carson will arrive by ambulance. He is very...
World Town Meeting. In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as a closeup of Houston's great Surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in the streets of Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town. The Town Meeting of the World turned international as Barry Goldwater in New York, Dean Rusk and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in London, and Maurice Schumann in Paris...
...David Wolper documentary examining some of the men involved in today's most exciting scientific and artistic projects: Dr. Michael DeBakey, developer of an implantable artificial heart; R. M. Worthy, who has programmed a computer to write poetry; Lukas Foss, composer of avant-garde music: Paolo Soleri, architect of a "total community...