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The Presidential Incision
Sir: Has our Great Society made dignity and good taste oldfashioned? The nation has been cheered by news of the President's speedy recovery from his operation, but is it necessary to subject us to a picture of the presidential incision along with our morning coffee? I hope L.BJ...
The clock read 6:15 a.m. when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under...
The most daring, and still somewhat controversial, of Dr. DeBakey's innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result...
Atlas of Anatomy. The surgeons needed free access to the patient's neck region, so they cut a hole into his windpipe and inserted a tube through which he got all later anesthesia. They clamped his jaws tightly shut and fastened his head in a frame to hold it...