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...went smoothly. A team of six doctors headed by Navy Captain Dale Oller, chief of general surgery at Bethesda, snipped out a 2-ft.-long portion of Reagan's colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during or shortly after major surgery, such as excessive bleeding or infection of the wound. More important, there was no sign...
...petered out slowly. The first one, held in almost complete, shocked silence, as Wilson's mind wandered, came six months after the stroke. During the course of these meetings, Edith was always close by, and Wilson's attending physician would pop in every few minutes to check on his patient...
...read with fascination about the Soviets doing eye surgery in an assembly-line fashion [MEDICINE, July 1]. However, I was surprised to notice in your photograph that one eye surgeon had his nose outside the sterile mask. I guess that person has three minutes to infect each patient. Richard C. Back Clemson...
...cranky exchanges stemmed partly from the White House decision to limit reporters' access to the President's doctors and not to release a full pathology report on his condition. In public, however, Reagan's doctors have so far been commendably open in discussing their patient's condition. As for the reporters, few would deny Reagan the right to a certain amount of privacy. Still, many of them feel that Speakes did a clumsy job of defining the boundary between the public's need to know about its leader's health and Reagan's rights as a patient...
This means that all the President's doctors can do is watch their patient carefully and hope to catch any recurrence in its earliest stages. Doctors have recommended that six months after the President's discharge from the hospital he should undergo another colonoscopy, a visual examination of the colon (see diagram). They will check his blood regularly for carcinoembryonic antigen, a chemical marker that may indicate the presence of cancer cells, and examine his lungs, liver and other organs by means of X rays and CAT scans...