Word: neurosurgeon
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...victim of a head-on car crash lay speechless in a Los Angeles hospital. On the 21st day of silence, the neurosurgeon tried a desperate measure: "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" he asked. The reply was immediate: "Eh, just fine, Doc. How're you?" A question to Porky Pig ) elicited a similar response: "Just f-fine, th-th-thanks!" In his otherwise light-headed autobiography, Mel Blanc recalls, "It was as though Bugs and Porky, into whom I had breathed life three decades earlier, were returning the favor...
Deaver's President is every bit the benignly self-assured, uncurious fellow portrayed by many less friendly observers. Deaver notes approvingly that Reagan was so fascinated by the craft of his neurosurgeon father-in-law, Dr. Loyal Davis, that he "could diagnose a brain tumor just by hearing the symptoms on a soap opera." On a soap opera...
...surgical plan, initiated by Rogers and Pediatric Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, combined several intricate procedures. To avoid major hemorrhaging in the brains, they proposed to drain the boys' blood supply completely and stop the hearts. To prevent the brains and other organs from starving during this period without blood-borne oxygen and nutrients, metabolic demands would be reduced to a minimum by lowering the babies' body temperature to 68 degrees F, putting them into a state of suspended animation. Because their brains are resilient, children below the age of 18 months have a remarkable capacity to recover from induced hypothermia, which...
Peter Weller, who was the neurosurgeon-nuclear physicistrock star hero of Bucakroo Banzai, plays Murphy, an average police grunt in 1990s Detroit. After a gang of cop-killers wastes him, Murphy is brought to a laboratory where an ambitious yuppie brings him back to life...
...Although Neurosurgeon Milton Avol usually lives in comfort in Beverly Hills, at the moment he can be found among disgruntled tenants in his own vermin- infested tenement in Los Angeles. Avol, 64, has been sentenced to live in his building for 30 days while monitored by an electronic device on his leg. The physician earned the nickname "Ratlord" after accumulating hundreds of health- and building-code violations on his four Los Angeles apartment houses since...