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Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cures That Kill | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

This power of detailed synthesis was not the end of drawing, however, only the means. Leonardo could bring a steely exactitude and transparent freshness of observation to a botanical drawing, like the star-of-Bethlehem plant that he drew as a study for his lost painting of Leda and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Apocalypse on a Postcard | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

To determine what substances are primary irritants, clinical ecologists isolate the patient in a carefully controlled environment. At Brookhaven, for example, Rossall lives in a ceramic-tiled room (she will later move to one covered with porcelain). Her mattress is pure cotton, as are her pillows, sheets and clothes, all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Totally Allergic | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

The Hour of Our Death takes on the last stage of life. The book is a majestically ambitious attempt to isolate, define and synthesize a thousand years of attitudes about dying, burying, grieving and remembering. Ariès has burrowed through centuries of literature, folklore, religious history and civic and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skeletons in the Closet THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Frei noted that cosmetic treatment meant to improve the quality of the patient's life after treatment has gained in importance. Instead of amputation of a 15-year-old's leg, for example, doctors now will isolate only the part of the bone affected by cancer and treat it with...

Author: By Susan L. Donner, | Title: Cancer Cures Improve | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

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