Word: dunedin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACKSON PARKS Dunedin...
...Zealand surgeons report in the British Medical Journal that they have had close calls with two patients. A man of 68 had been doing well in Dunedin Hospital after a week on an external pacemaker. The surgeons were installing an internal model that was designed to work indefinitely, but when they cut into the patient's heart sac to put an electrode in the heart muscle, the external pacemaker went wild, and the heart twitched ineffectively. The doctors traced the trouble to high-frequency interference from the diathermy machine that powered the electric scalpel they were using. This...
IVAN A. MITCHELL Dunedin, New Zealand...