Word: neurosurgeon
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...Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, Neurosurgeon Eugene Spitz, 37, tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...they honor Dr. Brown's dictum that the child is not just a little man. In the early years of the century, Surgeon William Ladd wrote a new chapter in the history of his dexterous profession by developing ways to revamp malformed intestinal and bile tracts in infants. Neurosurgeon Frank Ingraham has devised a highly ingenious method of draining the fluid in hydrocephalic children from the spinal canal to the kidneys through a polyethylene tube. Pediatrician Bronson Crothers has probed the causes of cerebral palsy, is now preparing a book with 1,000 exhaustive case histories...
...seems to be to lead the patient along the very brink of the abyss, hoping that he will not fall in-something like Dulles' diplomacy." Finally, affirming his own faith that the problem of schizophrenia will be solved by the biochemist, he quoted Boston's late great neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Gushing: "The task of the psychiatrists is to get back into the asylums and laboratories which they are so proud to have left behind them, and prove . . . that their concepts have scientific validity...
Married. Dorothy Kirsten, 39, Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Dr. John Douglas French, 44, neurosurgeon at Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital; she for the third time, he for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
...neurosurgeon named Earl in a Western state had always been fortune's darling; class president from high school through medical school and a professional success, he had never lost family or income because of alcohol. ("I made more money the last year of my drinking than I ever made before in my whole life.") He knew that something had to give when he found that the drinks he craved made him miserable even before they made him drunk. His wife read him an A.A. pamphlet. For the moment it had no effect. But a few evenings later...