Word: neurosurgeon
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...World Conference on Medical Education, meeting in London, heard an eminent British neurosurgeon, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, denounce the practice of having medical students sit in the gallery watching operation after operation. "A shocking waste of time," said Sir Geoffrey. "They would be much better employed in the wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities...
Hospital at Stoke Mandeville, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, a German neurosurgeon who came to Britain in 1939. During the war Surgeon Guttmann became interested in the plight of paraplegics, invalids whose cases were sometimes written off as hopeless by the medical profession. In 1944, Guttmann went to Stoke Mandeville, with one patient, to see if some form of physical activity could help...
...most case-hardened doctors sat on the edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
...climactic operation there was a medical team of 15. Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar had four surgeons to help him with the heads while two others handled transfusions; there were two anesthetists, two pediatricians and four nurses. For nearly ten hours they worked, cutting a little here, retracting there, stitching and always transfusing. Rodney, the little one, stood the strain better; Roger was in shock three times...
...Colonel Meirowsky first proposed such teams last year, higher echelons frowned on the idea. It was felt that skilled nerve men are too hard to come by to risk exposing them in combat areas, that intricate operations cannot be per formed in field hospitals. Meirowsky, 41, a German-born neurosurgeon who volunteered for active duty, refused even to consider the first objection. He argued until the Army agreed to let him "study" the possibilities...