Word: neurosurgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promise of Firsts. Because tradition holds that the best medicine and research grow around a medical school in a major university, and Arizona is one of the few states that have no medical school, Phoenix seemed an unlikely place to start a neurological institute. But to Neurosurgeon Green, 47, it seemed ridiculous to wait for one to burgeon and bloom like a century plant. He longed for a local institute to save patients from having to travel hundreds or thousands of miles...
...behind the gun was Georgetown University's Neurosurgeon John P. Gallagher, who wanted a safe way to treat aneurysms in the brain. Aneurysms are like blisters in tubeless tires: at a weak spot in its wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops...
...Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). TV's larger-than-life neurosurgeon picks the brain of an ailing industrial czar who has entered the hospital under a phony name because he fears his company's stock will drop if investors hear that the great man is shaky...
...other medical show, Ben Casey, however, written by James (Medic) Moser and starring Vincent Edwards, is one of the great events in the long, hallowed annals of videosurgery. Neurosurgeon Ben Casey is so bright that his giant brain is already grappling with the most advanced encephalopathological problems of 1975. Meanwhile, he is a first-class, unsutured, 1961-style son of a bitch. Handling several cases an ABC-hour, his kindest words for his fellow physicians are: "What the hell do you use for brains?" Rabid women bite him. But, for all his foaming at the mouth, Casey is a marvelous...
...years of the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, girls have been the winners almost 2 to 1. Last week in Washington, the championship went to a boy: John Capehart, 12, a Tulsa neurosurgeon's son who competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from 5,000,000 entrants. Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart's winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine (of or pertaining to emerald...