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Unique Service. The MIST duty rosters are manned by experienced physicians on the faculty, including some with national reputations. They include Dr. John Kirklin, former chief of surgery at the Mayo Clinic and now chief of surgery at the medical college; Dr. T. Joseph Reeves, chief of medicine at the college and a renowned cardiologist; and Dr. Thomas W. Sheehy, formerly a medical adviser for the U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, now director of MIST and professor of medicine at the college. They take on the extra duty without pay, have already dealt with scores of cases ranging from...
...John Kirklin, a specialist in open surgery, will examine Yovicsin, will probably perform an open-heart to correct the murmur...
Yovicsin entered Peter Bent Brigham in February for three days of . Doctors there advised him to enter clinic to be treated by Dr. Kirklin, has performed more than 150 operations succesfully...
...Surgery," says Heart Surgeon Kirklin, "is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go." But today, patients who have no place else to go are vastly more fortunate than their predecessors. To virtually all of them, surgery offers more hope than it ever did before. And to many of them with heart defects or in need of transplants-those for whom there never was any place else to go-surgery now offers the first and the best hope...
...almost always a team effort. But there in the operating room, his team on hand, his patient anesthetized, all the surgeon's knowledge must be instantly available for decisions upon which life depends. "At a given instant," says the Mayo Clinic's famed Heart Surgeon John W. Kirklin, "everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up." Because of his own contributions to surgery's body of basic knowledge, his phenomenal...