Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghost surgeon in this case was the hero of Erich Maria Remarque's bestseller about prewar Paris, Arch of Triumph, but medical ghosts walk not only in fiction. They perform operations in U.S. hospitals every day. It works this way: the family doctor tells a patient that an operation is necessary and either says flatly, or strongly implies, that he will do it himself. But after the patient is under the anesthetic, in comes a more skilled specialist in surgery. He may know nothing of the patient's history and never see his face. Before the anesthetic wears...
...Paul Hawley, the American College of Surgeons has been urging county medical societies to crack down on ghost surgery and fee-splitting. Last week the San Diego society did so. It slapped a one-year suspension on Physician Egbert Morris Hayes of Palm City and Surgeon Wesley Walters of Chula Vista. This would not keep them from practicing, but barred them from leading hospitals in the country...
...fingering the shackles that once held him. Then, quick as an amoeba, he splits in two: the man as seen by his contemporaries and the hero posterity thinks him to be. He sets out on his mission partly because of the arrival of a mystical dove (representing the Holy Ghost), while beyond the seas, certain Mexican deities stir up frightful waves to discourage the expedition...
...Left Bank hotel. Even proud, logical Lucienne reacts with a look of stupor and alarm to the baffling news, but expresses a violent professional conviction: nobody could be alive after 48 hours under water. The guilt-stricken Ravinel takes it harder; he is convinced his wife is a ghost, and he goes to pieces puzzling over how Mireille can be dead and alive at the same time...
...Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command their forces for them!" For U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, he had sarcasm and condescension: "When Mr. Foster Dulles conjured up in Paris the ghost of a dramatic revision of American policy ... I am sure he could not help smiling. With the same smile, I answer him today: 'Do not mind us, dear friend. Go right ahead...