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Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E. however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...reason for the surging popularity of videoscope surgery is simple: correctly performed, it can dramatically reduce surgical trauma. Since 1987, when the first diseased gall bladder was removed in this fashion, rave reviews from patients have made it almost rare for a gall bladder to be removed the old-fashioned way. And for good reason. "Before," says Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that...
Might enthusiasm for videoscopes be in danger of outrunning common sense? In the past four years, 28,000 U.S. surgeons have learned how to remove gall bladders laparoscopically. "That may be too quick," acknowledges Dr. Nathaniel Soper, a general surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, since laparoscopic surgery takes considerable practice. Currently, for . instance, laparoscopic gall-bladder removal appears to carry a slightly elevated risk of bile-duct injury, but the injuries seem to be concentrated in the first operations a surgeon performs. For this reason, medical societies have begun drawing up training standards that direct novices to practice...
Videoscope surgery will never completely replace open surgery, but it may come closer than anyone a year or two ago might have imagined. Already, of nearly 600,000 gall bladders that are removed in the U.S. annually, an estimated three-quarters are removed laparoscopically. Other common operations, from hysterectomies to hernias, seem likely to follow suit. At Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago, a trauma team has begun using the technology to diagnose injuries from knife wounds and automobile crashes. Soon the team expects to move from diagnosis to laparoscopic repair of tears to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Eventually...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...