Word: neurosurgeon
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...says that his biggest insight came one night in 1967, when he realized that if evolution had confined speech areas to the left side of the brain, corresponding parts of the right side must have been cleared for some other powerful function-perhaps the ancient voices. He remembered that Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield had done some classic tests of the right side of the brain. "I have a key to the Princeton library, and I rushed down there at midnight," says Jaynes. "I got Penfield's article, and I almost fainted. There it was. When you stimulate certain parts...
Died. Wilder G. Penfield, 85, pioneering neurosurgeon and cartographer of the cerebral cortex; of cancer; in Montreal. While treating an epileptic, Penfield probed her brain electrically, setting off recollections of the birth of her child. Subsequently, he mapped the control centers of various kinds of memories and bodily functions and developed surgical techniques that cured many cases of epilepsy. The Montreal Neurological Institute, which he founded with a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1934, became a mecca for doctors and patients from around the world...
...neurosurgeon at Stanford University Medical Center, "I've been well accepted by professionals and patients all along the way. If you pull your own weight, do a competent job, you're accepted." Conley is both amused and irritated when she goes to a party with her husband Philip, a financial analyst: "Everybody asks him what he does, and conversation revolves around that. Nobody asks me what I do. They think they know...
...turned off by his pedantic political analyses at the breakfast table that she walked out in 1948 with their two children, Maureen, now 34, and Michael, 30. Four years later he married a former starlet who shared his political convictions: Nancy Davis, daughter of a wealthy Chicago neurosurgeon. They have two children, Patricia, 22, an aspiring singer, and Ronald Prescott, 17, a student at a private boys' school...
DOCTORS' HOSPITAL (NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.D.T.) has George Peppard as Ben Casey redivivus-another resident neurosurgeon who sprinkles ground-up interns on his crunchy granola for breakfast, gnaws on the leg of a hospital administrator at lunch and fries incompetent colleagues for dinner. Hospital-show scripts are as predictable as hospital menus-and bear precisely the same relationship to real drama as institutional food does to haute cuisine...