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...Kenneth Smiley, vice-president of Lehigh and chairman of higher education, and Drs. Niles Y. Wessel of Tufts and Roger Hamilton of Northeastern of the New England group issued the statements for their associations. The last two cautioned that their report was informal...
...John F. Rogers had four patients in St. Francis Hospital recovering from operations. For their sake, he dropped out of the league. But, he added, he might quit the hospital staff when his patients were better. Drs. Martin Leiser and Paul M. Lass also decided to stay with the hospital. In his case, said Lass, it was all a mistake: he had never been a member of the league, had been consulted occasionally as a specialist in human fertility and sterility...
...findings were then turned over to Ernest Havemann, former TIME editor now with LIFE, whose often-demonstrated ability to "humanize" statistics made him a logical choice. While Havemann was writing the book, it was being checked, chapter by chapter, by Drs. Merton and West. Havemann had a field day, comparing the accepted myths (which he termed the "folklore") about college graduates with the facts revealed by the study...
...Drs. Ronald T. Grant and E. Basil Reeve found themselves caught in this confusion early in World War II, when they treated 120 victims of bombings and accidents in England. They went on to Italy and treated 190 more (both soldiers and civilians). They soon dropped the word shock from their vocabulary, because they found it not a help but a hindrance. From the varied conditions formerly lumped as shock, Grant and Reeve sorted out six kinds of circulatory upset, and their symptoms...
...Delay. The first thing to do for victims of "shock" and injury, Drs. Grant and Reeve found (as did U.S. Army medics, especially in Korea), was to see whether the patient had lost blood, and if so, how much. In some cases, even when the blood pressure was normal, there had been heavy blood loss. The actual volume of blood lost, say the doctors, should be computed (by a quick and simple dye method). Their motto: "If in doubt, transfuse...