Word: neurosurgeons
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...announcement comes on the same day that Konstantinov, the star defenseman injured in a June 13 limousine accident, emerged from his coma to what doctors described as a state of semi-consciousness. "He's more alert, but he's not fully conscious yet," said Dr. Karol Zakalik a neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. Perhaps Konstantinov, who played seven seasons with the Soviet Central Red Army Team, will derive some inspiration when the trophy on which his name is now inscribed pays a visit to his homeland...
Hokeyness, though, is a prime ingredient for a successful beach book, and it rears its head in another Grishamesque page turner: Likely to Die (Scribner; 393 pages; $24), a novel about a murdered neurosurgeon written by Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Where else will you find the line "In your dreams, Blondie. In your dreams...
...U.Va., Reeve came under the care of a noted neurosurgeon and teacher of neurosurgeons, John Jane, who would operate on Reeve himself. Before that, however, Reeve needed to be stabilized to prevent any more compression in the spine. He was placed on a bed with a kind of halo attached to his head and a heavy weight that kept him immobile. He was given morphine. Sometimes he would attempt to flail and would jerk his head from side to side, and more sedation would be necessary...
DIED. VINCE EDWARDS, 67, actor; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. As Dr. Ben Casey, he was surly, sarcastic, short-tempered--and that's just how he treated his friends. Yet TV viewers in the 1960s couldn't get enough of the neurosurgeon or of Edwards, who portrayed the combative Casey as the polar opposite of his ratings rival, the saintly Doctor Kildare (played by Richard Chamberlain). Prior to Ben Casey, Edwards was a B-movie gangster. After, he appeared in forgettable film and TV work, including the inevitable Return of Ben Casey...
University of Washington neurosurgeon Dr. George Ojemann has discovered, by probing the brain with electrodes, that some neurons turn on when one is silently naming an object to oneself but not during reading and vice versa. In one bilingual patient he found neurons that were activated by Finnish but not English. In another he found neurons that changed activity with English but not Spanish. And, marvels Ojemann, "the neurons that are active when you hear a word are not active when you express...