Word: medicalmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worried Lungren called in Dr. Wiley F. Barker, an expert in venous-systems diseases and professor of surgery at U.C.L.A., and Dr. Eldon B. Hickman, deputy chief of surgery at Memorial. After consultation and another venogram of their patient, the medicalmen agreed that immediate surgery was essential to keep the clots from breaking off and moving upward to Nixon's heart and lungs. They showed Nixon the venogram, explaining that, as Hickman put it to reporters later, "it was a threat that the clot could become a pulmonary embolus." After discussing his condition with Pat Nixon and, by telephone...
| 1 |