Word: neurosurgeons
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...this in itself is considered major surgery, and too drastic an operation for some patients. The cord-cutting procedure has an added disadvantage: when the patient recovers, he will have suffered permanent loss of feeling in the affected part of his body. Now an imaginative University of Chicago neurosurgeon has devised a way to achieve the desired relief of pain by a relatively minor operation under a local anesthetic. His method also permits the numbed area to regain sensation after about six months...
...with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms. When the tip of the hollow needle is in about the right place, Neurosurgeon Mullan blows in a little air, then a radiopaque dye, so that the final, precise positioning will show on the X rays...
...wife, Barbara Gushing Paley, is one of the three beautiful daughters of Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She is much more celebrated than he is, always appearing on lists of the ten best-dressed or -coiffed or just looking out from a photograph with a coolly amiable glance that makes men instinctively straighten their ties. Because she reads widely and far more than he has time to, he seems to look to her for literary judgments in much the way he depends on men like Jim Aubrey for first opinions about new gumshoes, comedians and hillbillies. The Paleys...
...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...