Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a Long Island, N.Y., service-station operator named Franklin Mirando checked into a suburban hospital in July 1975 for the implanting of an artificial hip joint, he had little reason for concern. Such operations are routinely performed more than 100,000 times a year in the U.S., and have kept countless people on their feet who might otherwise be left permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches...
Mirando's surgery was performed at Smithtown General Hospital, a private, 274-bed doctor-owned institution about 40 miles from Manhattan. According to the investigators, the operation started out smoothly enough. It was only after Mirando was wheeled into the recovery room that the doctors discovered the artificial joint had popped out of place...
...mechanical whiz. He regularly demonstrates products for doctors' groups, reads medical journals diligently, spends hours in his garage practicing surgical procedures with animal bones-and has "ghosted" for surgeons in the past. MacKay agreed not only to repair the cracked bone but also to replace the artificial joint. As he told the Long Island newspaper Newsday: "I kept repeating in my mind, 'Let's get this guy's hip back together right.' He had been under anesthesia since 8 a.m., and could have stopped breathing any time." Indeed, before Mirando left the operating room again...
This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...
...prohibited; once inside, the only way to distinguish prisoners from visitors is that inmates alone are allowed to wear jeans. Again, the warning: bring in nothing on your person. Only a few weeks before, someone entering the prison to tutor inmates--a Harvard student, in fact--accidentally left a joint in his coat. The authorities banned him from ever re-visiting Walpole...