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...days after their birth in Lafayette, La. (pop. 33,541), where Ashton Mouton is mayor, the twins were taken to New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital. There, for weeks, a team of doctors poked, prodded and X-rayed to map the exact extent of the girls' connection...
...Mobile, Ala., New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner was asked what he thought of½ socialized medicine. His reply: "We already have it ... in the free care of patients who are unable to pay for hospital care. What I am against is federal medicine, not because of its prospective effect on doctors, but because of the effect it would have on the type of care that patients would receive under Government control of the medical profession...
Though the assembled thousands included many of the deftest-fingered scalpel wielders and gut tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...Detroit last week, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner addressed a gathering of doctors on the recent increase in lung cancer, which he believes is directly traceable to increased smoking. Every pack-a-day smoker over 40 should have a chest X ray every six months, said Ochsner; every pack-a-day man over 50, every three months. Said nonsmoking Dr. Ochsner sadly: "A great many physicians are heavy smokers." Over his attentive doctor-audience, the air was blue with smoke...
...importance of emotional factors in bringing on stomach ulcers is well known, but one of the doctor's problems is to decide which of his patients are "the ulcer type." To help their colleagues, Drs. Albert J. Sullivan and Thomas E. McKell of New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic have written a bright, breezy new monograph, Personality in Peptic Ulcer (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield...