Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GRAHAM GREENE...
Evarts Ambrose Graham, a Chicago surgeon's son, fainted when at twelve he first saw his father operate. But he soon conquered his queasiness, went through Chicago's Rush Medical College ('07), became a World War I Army surgeon and made a distinguished record. Example: he discovered that faulty surgical technique in the Army was the main cause of death in thousands of cases of massive chest abscess following influenza. In some camps the death rate hit 98%; after Major Graham's findings, it fell...
...setting a notable precedent: he was to be a full-time professor, operating only for the instruction of junior surgeons, or in cases affording opportunity for scientific advance. Previously, professors had been part-time teachers and part-time surgeons making a living in private practice. At the university Dr. Graham made no more than perhaps a tenth of the income he could have commanded from fees. He became an outspoken and effective foe of such evils as fee splitting and ghost surgery. To his scientific achievements he soon added a dependable X-ray technique for diagnosing gall-bladder disease...
Cavities & a Grave. Dr. James L. Gilmore, a Pittsburgh obstetrician, had consulted Graham about what he believed to be a lung abscess. Graham jolted him with the news: it was cancer. Gilmore went home to Pittsburgh to decide whether he wanted an operation to remove the diseased part of his lung. In a few days he returned, ready for the operation, and told Surgeon Graham that while in Pittsburgh he had had some teeth filled. Said Graham with a laugh: "I like an optimistic patient." Replied Gilmore: "Yes, but I ought to tell you that I also bought a cemetery...
Under coach Graham Taylor in 1954 and 1955, the varsity ranked eighth out of 25 members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association. Last year under graduate student Don Kennedy, the team again finished eighth...