Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Heard a report on a way to relieve man's most atrocious pain by injecting hot water into a bundle of nerves behind the forehead. Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water...
Ever since January, said Dr. Samuel Shenkman, a Manhattan neurosurgeon, he had been trying to collect $9,500, his price for an operation on Campy's left hand. Campy had referred the bill to the Dodgers; the Dodgers had refused...
...many a thoughtful neurosurgeon, some drastic brain operations now in vogue are "like burning down the house to roast the pig." For two of the operations substitute methods are being suggested in hopes that the same amount of good can be done with less incidental harm...