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BORN: Oct. 8, 1947, Hillsdale EDUCATION: Loma Linda U, B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Congregationalist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Community facilitator POLITICAL CAREER: Sought G.O.P. nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5317, Traverse City...
...Gresham Bayne practices medicine in some pretty unusual places. Just last month the San Diego physician was worshipping at the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church when a fellow parishioner collapsed in her pew. Rather than call 911 to rush the 96-year-old woman to the hospital, Bayne asked the ushers to take her to the church parlor. The doctor, who is something of a gadget freak, was equipped for any contingency. Stashed in his black bag--actually a blue-and-gray fishing-tackle box--was a miniaturized version of every diagnostic tool he needed to assess her symptoms...
Bayne took full advantage of the new technology that Sunday morning in Point Loma. Although he could not feel a pulse at his patient's wrist, he was able to determine that it had fallen from a normal 80 beats a minute to 38 by placing a digital pulse monitor the size of a lemon on the woman's finger. He then touched her chest with a portable EKG machine and analyzed her cardiac rhythms. Had there been any indication that she was suffering a heart attack, Bayne would immediately have called 911. When he determined that wasn...
Science may never be able to pin down the benefits of spirituality. Attempts by Benson and others to do so are like "trying to nail Jell-O to the wall," complains William Jarvis, a public-health professor at California's Loma Linda University and the president of the National Council Against Health Fraud. But it may not be necessary to understand how prayer works to put it to use for patients. "We often know something works before we know why," observes Santa Fe internist Larry Dossey, the author of the 1993 best seller Healing Words...
Investigators from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Universities of Toronto, Minnesota, Loma Linda, Limburg (the Netherlands), Uppsala (Sweden), the State University of New York at Buffalo and the TNO Nutrition Institute in the Netherlands collaborated on this study...