Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedish Method. Dr. Schutte, a hormone specialist, discussed the case with Neurosurgeon Jorge A. Picaza. They decided that Senora R. might be relieved by a drastic operation developed by two Swedish doctors: removal of the pituitary gland. The Swedes thought it offered promise in some forms of cancer...
Nobody knows precisely how many cases there are like Billy's, but they number hundreds of thousands. Famed Neurosurgeon Tracy Jackson Putnam estimates the number of brain-injured persons in the U.S. at as many as 2,500,000. Of these, he says, 13% have cerebral palsy (in which the injury to the brain involves the motor centers), and for them, much is being done. Perhaps 30% are so mentally retarded (often because of birth injuries) that they can be given little but affectionate care...
...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...