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...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...
Long Arm. In Invercargill, New Zealand, Kenneth Blackmore, 19, escaped from prison, fled 140 miles to Dunedin, took refuge in a tree, discovered too late that he was in the backyard of Sergeant Alex McRae, the police officer who had been detailed to look...
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...Welshman and a Polynesian noblewoman, Dr. Davis went to New Zealand when he was eleven. He got his M.D. in 1943, was a house surgeon in Auckland, practiced psychiatry in Dunedin and studied tropical medicine in Sydney before he went back to the Cook Islands with his New Zealand wife. There he found only eight health workers, none of them medical graduates, to care for 16,000 people on 15 islands. scattered over 300,000 square miles of the Pacific...