Word: electrocardiograph
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...that the electrocardiograph has become a standard fixture in consulting rooms, doctors and patients often feel that a checkup is incomplete without its routine ceremonial-daubing with salty goo, taping on electrodes, and letting the machine make wavy lines on squared paper. Confidence in this useful machine has gone too far, says Dr. Francis F. Rosenbaum of Milwaukee. Sometimes it sounds a false alarm, sometimes its "all's well" gives a false sense of security...
...itself, says Dr. Rosenbaum, the electrocardiograph cannot tell the heart's whole story. If the graph shows a minor deviation from normal, the doctor usually mutters something about "strain" and orders the patient to give up some of his favorite activities. This exaggerated caution causes many patients "serious psychologic and economic suffering...
...Rosenbaum does not recommend junking the electrocardiograph. He insists that its evidence be accepted as only part of the story-along with laboratory tests and thorough physical examination...
...enough to baffle an electrocardiograph; a strange outbreak of heart and circulatory diseases seemed to be sweeping through the oddest levels of the St. Louis social structure. Police Commissioner John T. English, of East St. Louis, just across the Mississippi in Illinois, announced that he had a heart condition. Leo Dougherty, the Democratic boss of East St. Louis, checked into a Chicago hospital with "a coronary." Then Charles J. ("Kewpie") Rich, a big bookie, discovered that his ticker was acting...
...farther away from pioneer conditions, Dr. Reeves has lent the hospital an electrocardiograph. Last week the partners installed a $5,000, hospital-sized X-ray machine to replace a portable model they had been using. Come spring, they will start building an office of their own to replace their present rented quarters (which replaced a wooden shack where Dr. Reeves had to practice at first). It will be big enough to serve as an outpatient clinic. In it will be still more modern equipment, notably diathermy and basal metabolism machines. ("With those," says Dr. Reeves, "we'll have...