Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore a man with a delicate head wound could be gotten to a neurosurgeon back in Tokyo. The chances of infection are great in head and spinal wounds; too many of the first cases died or suffered crippling paralysis. Nowadays, thanks to forward-area teams, wounded men are being treated in a matter of hours...
...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...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 34: Los Angeles Neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Lindstrom, 42; after twelve years of marriage, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (see CINEMA...