Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timber-topped mountains. To date, Washington has poured $1.2 billion into its Appalachia program, mostly for 3,350 miles of new roads; the aim is to lure new industries to Appalachian cities and give mountaineers ready access to the jobs thus created. But, as evidenced by the few person-to-person anti-poverty projects that have been launched thus far under the program, the challenges of transforming the mountaineer into a middle-class American have become even more evident...
...million operations performed in the U.S. each year, from charity patient to President, one feature is uniform and unchanging. The last in dividual the patient sees and hears be fore he "goes under" is the person who gives the anesthetic...
Today that person is often a physician. Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform and whose only function was to render the patient in sensible to pain. Today's anesthesiologist is responsible for the whole man-his breathing and his circulation. In the past dozen years, the growth of knowledge and skills among anesthesia specialists has been greater than in practically any other branch of medicine. When the American Society of Anesthesiologists held its annual meeting in Denver last week, the trade talk of members made it clear that...
...Role. "People used to think of the anesthetist as a faceless person who suddenly appears in the surgery, does his little assignment, and then disappears," said Dr. Volpitto. "It's different today. Anesthesiologists see the patients in advance, and we play a role with the surgeon in preparing them for what is to come." The A.S.A.'s incoming president, Dr. John J. Bonica, drew attention to another vital role of the anesthesiologist-where surgery is not involved or at least not scheduled. "Suppose," he said, "a patient comes in with barbiturate poisoning. All his automatic nervous system reactions...
...Forming a speakers' bureau and asking every possible group in the Boston Area--women's clubs, service organizations, schools, and churches, for example--if they would like to hear a discussion of the Vietnam question by one person or several with different opinions...