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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...
...aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died. The striking thing, said DeBakey, is that not until almost 90 years after this could any surgeon have done anything more than did Beshoar...
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...