Word: lahey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adson still felt a need to protect patients against those medical men whom he accused of having "surgical genes-an inborn bias in favor of surgery." To this, Surgeon Kenneth W. Warren of Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most...
David Merrick recently took his annual physical examination at Boston's Lahey Clinic, and his friends may be relieved to learn that he does not have a long red pointy tail. In other respects, however, David is a devil of a fellow...
...continuous process, continuous infusion of anti-cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock...