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...doctors who used alcohol and drugs on duty, even letting nurses perform major surgery when doctors were absent. The resulting furor ended with the resignation of Milledgeville's chief surgeon and seven other doctors. The hospital superintendent retired, and the hospital was removed from the jurisdiction of the graft-ridden public welfare department and transferred to the public health department. Nelson's Milledgeville exposé won him a Pulitzer Prize "for distinguished local reporting under deadline pressure...
...such graft that led to the conviction of his predecessor, Hugh Addonizio, on 64 charges of extortion and conspiracy. The offers to Gibson are being investigated for possible prosecution of the would-be donors...
...means of sutures, much as surgeons rejoin damaged arteries or torn muscle tissues. Another, the nerve crossover, requires the use of an undamaged nerve-usually the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue movement-to innervate facial muscles as well. The third and most difficult procedure is the autogenous nerve graft: surgeons remove a piece of nerve fiber from elsewhere in the patient's body and use it to replace the section of facial nerve cut away in tumor surgery or damaged by injury...
Complex Procedures. Nerve surgery is frustratingly complex. Many nerve fibers are finer than sewing thread, have branchings that are difficult to locate and even harder to suture. The nerve fiber used in an autogenous graft is rarely more than two millimeters wide. Surgeons use a ten-power microscope, hair-thin sutures and exceedingly delicate instruments. The microscope magnifies the nerve enough to make it look as large as a piece of string...
...taken or left for what it is as long as Friedman sticks to the mimicry of detective-story dialogue, journalism cliches, police-blotter prose, and the series of burlesque lech-skits that give The Dick its basic shape. But when, as he does at the end, Friedman tries to graft existential pur pose onto his low-comedy hero, the ques tion becomes an embarrassment. Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik...