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Severed Circle. As a technical procedure, however, vasectomy is simplicity itself. After administering a local anesthetic, the doctor locates the vas deferens, the thin (3-mm. diameter) tube that carries sperm from the testicle to the seminal vesicle, where it is mixed with other components of the semen (see diagram...
When the Governor was carried into the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., last May, the doctors' immediate concern was a bullet lodged somewhere in Wallace's abdomen. To probe for that bullet, the surgeons made a vertical incision, beginning just below Wallace's rib cage...
But the major danger to the patient remained internal infection. Despite the surgeons' heroic cleanup of the intestinal spillage from the first bullet, some bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the...
It was only 7 a.m., but the operating room in Cleveland Clinic's cardiovascular unit was going full tilt. Nurses, technicians and visiting doctors watched as members of a surgical team took their places around the operating table. With confidence born of experience, the surgeons made a vertical incision...
Nolen makes no secret of his contempt for surgeons who perform unnecessary operations because insurance companies pay more for major surgery than they do for diagnostic procedures. And he frankly describes a surgeon's key motive: impatience. "The guy that goes into surgery," he writes, is the fellow who...