Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth floor, for brain surgery, is much like the second, but with some added equipment that only the neurosurgeon needs, such as a stereotactic device for placing electrodes at precise points deep inside the skull...
Smaller Bubbles. Dr. Kruse discussed the happenstance treatment with another skindiving friend, Dr. James R. Atkinson, then at the University of Washington. Working with cats, Neurosurgeon Atkinson found that tilting succeeded repeatedly in clearing up air embolism. He now thinks that in the head-down position, the brain receives more blood, so that its small vessels dilate and are better able to push the air bubbles along. The bubbles then split up until they become so small that they can be dissolved in the blood...
...neurosurgeon's knife. With every patient, the pain-clinic team has to answer two basic questions. How much of the unbearable pain is really the physical sensation, the pain itself? How much of it is reaction to the pain, a far more complex and elusive psychophysiological process? These are questions, says Dr. Bonica. that many more medical men should be asking themselves. But in all the U.S., there are only two or three clinics like Seattle's. There should be many more, says Dr. Bonica-at least one in every major medical center-because pain is the common...
...Moscow Hospital No. 50 that day last January was Lev Davidovich Landau, 54, one of the world's greatest physicists. "Dau" was no ordinary patient, and he got no ordinary care. His friends unabashedly called for help from the free world. Canada's famed retired Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield flew from Montreal at a few hours' notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further on Landau's brain...
...Sweden for next month's ceremonies. But the great physicist is in a Moscow hospital, his memory still partially gone, his health still seriously impaired by the skull fracture and the eleven other bone breaks he suffered in an automobile accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped make their first atom bomb, but has been an important part...