Word: neurosurgeons
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...example, Langer and neurosurgeon Henry Brem devised the first dime-size chemotherapy wafers to treat brain cancer. These wafers release powerful cancer-fighting drugs slowly in the site where a tumor has been removed in order to kill any cancer cells the surgeon has missed. By confining the drugs to the site of the tumor, the effects on other organs are minimized--always a major consideration in chemotherapy. The same concept has since been applied to prostate, spinal and ovarian cancers...
...operation to remove half a child's brain sounds like something that only a mad--not to mention sadistic--scientist would dream up. And yet Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., is neither insane nor cruel. His reason for performing the surgery--known as a hemispherectomy--is quite compelling. For young patients with rare seizure disorders, it is often their best chance of living a more nearly normal life...
...prove that cell phones are safe, and it may take decades to identify which users, if any, may be vulnerable to the radio waves. "Nobody knows the consequences of using cell phones from childhood and having radio waves reaching far into the brain," notes Dr. Leif Salford, a Swedish neurosurgeon who has found evidence that cell-phone radiation may weaken the brain's protection against potentially harmful substances in the bloodstream. Salford calls widespread cell-phone use "the world's largest biological experiment ever." He adds, "It would be sad if people found out 20 years from now that they...
Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...
Didn't the alphabetic voting system of Sean, a neurosurgeon, legitimize the myth that pre-meds are great at memorizing 26 phonetic symbols, but they are not so good at making utterances that resemble coherent, logical statements? Didn't it make you feel a little guilty that, despite adorable Colleen's uncontested status as America's sweetheart, you couldn't help but have lustful dreams about her mud-wrestling Susan the truck driver? Finally, didn't you secretly hope that the episode featuring Richard's naked birthday extravaganza would simply last forever...