Word: ochsner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
...cases where the blood clots quickly, an anti-clotting agent to slow the process might be the answer. But Ochsner warned that such agents are "too dangerous." His suggestion: alpha tocopherol phosphate, "a normal antithrombin found within the blood [which] appears to represent a satisfactory substance to correct an antithrombin deficiency...
...Ochsner was not, he said, speaking against antibiotics, "the greatest thing in medicine": their good points dramatically offset their bad. The main thing, he said, is that doctors must know the bad points, and deal with them so as to take full advantage of the good ones...
...smoking, argued New Orleans' Dr. Alton Ochsner, can be blamed for the increase of cancer of the lung. Surgeon Ochsner, a nonsmoker, was positive. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, A.C.S. medical and scientific director, who does smoke, was not so sure. For every expert who blames tobacco for the increase of cancer of the lung, he said, there is another who says tobacco is not the cause...
Back in his clinic last week after the carnival, Dr. Ochsner quipped: "Once a King, but never a Kingfish." He referred to his ousting from Charity Hospital by Huey Long (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930) because he refused to make a political appointment. Known as "The Chief" to his colleagues and "The Great White Father" to his students, Ochsner sometimes thinks that he would like to be fired again: it might give him time to do more research...