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Insomniacs who shy away from pills have created a new industry. They can spend up to $480 for a hospital-type bed that cranks up at head and knees, down at the buttocks and feet. For $69.95 they get a gadget, the size of a table radio, that makes white noise-"a scientific blend of all sounds"-to drown out intruding racket. Other machines swish like the restless sea, or, in midwinter, hum like summer's air conditioner. There is a whole catalogue of ear plugs, His and Her reading lights, even a togetherness cigarette holder so that...
...sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
Prosthetics experts from the U.S. learned six years ago that the Russians were working on such an arm, but then the gadget needed a 500-lb. electrical-power unit to drive it. Now, Charles E Yesalis, an executive of Michigan's S. H. Camp & Co. (surgical appliances), has returned from a trip to Moscow carrying pictures and information about a far-advanced model that is completely portable and self-contained...
...York to honor a friend. "I want you to know how deeply I'm obligated and grateful to you," Ike told Dr. Paul Dudley White, 77, as he presented the heart specialist with a gold-plated stethoscope from the International Cardiology Foundation. Ike knew the gadget really worked, had already checked White's heart with it. The doctor was in the mood for gentle fun, too, calling Ike his "ideal" patient, who "through his most felicitous recovery-for which I thank him-promoted cardiology the world over...
...diagnoses as a would-be suicide; she borrows a pair of scissors from the operating room and nearly sends an appendicitis case back to surgery for a reopening when the shears turn up missing in the instrument count. Mercifully, she does not get her possum-petting hands on a gadget in the operating room that goes "ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa" while Dr. Cheswick assists on a tricky heart operation ("The microvalve is becoming more atresic," he mutters...