Word: neurosurgeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distracted tension, as if caught in an elastic web of attractions and repulsions, a web constantly in motion, in adjustment of distances. The visitor studies their hands, which are so human, so adept and articulate that they could be trained for neurosurgery if good hands were all that a neurosurgeon needed...
...rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other human disorders, ranging from blood diseases like thalassemia to paralysis caused by spinal-cord damage. Says Neurosurgeon Barth Green of the University of Miami: "This field isn't growing, it's exploding...
What is all this hype about healing? Dr. Ben Casey, the stuffy TV neurosurgeon of yesteryear, would surely be stunned. While many doctors still keep a low advertising profile, the rest of the health-care industry has suddenly gone for the hard sell. To fill a growing number of empty beds and to stand out amid increased competition, hospitals and clinics have started embracing modern marketing techniques. Result: a wave of come-ons for everything from cancer treatment to fat removal...
...principle of making the punishment fit the crime has rarely been taken so literally. After Neurosurgeon Milton Avol, 61, was found guilty of failing to correct repeated violations of health and fire-safety codes in the ramshackle, rodent-infested apartment buildings he owns, Los Angeles Municipal Judge Veronica Simmons McBeth sentenced him to spend 30 days in a public cell and 30 days in a private one: a grungy one-room apartment in one of his own buildings...
...small riverfront park, the veterans laid wreaths at a gray stone monument that recalls the 1945 encounter in Cyrillic lettering. Robertson, now 61 and a neurosurgeon in Los Angeles, and Silvashko, also 61, and a secondary school headmaster in Minsk, re-enacted their 1945 embrace. Said Silvashko: "I have a peaceful profession now, and so does...