Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss. But there was no doubt about effects. The National Cancer Institute's Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber introduced methotrexate treatment, doctors found...
Author Yanovsky, 60, a Russian emigre physician and writer of seven novels published in Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader...
...Regarding Physician Armstead Hudnell's suggestion to punch a small hole in the cigarette, I tried it and discovered very little trace of nicotine in the filter on the punched half. Then I punched two holes-more effective! I then punched three, four and five holes. With a pair of scissors I snipped a hole all the way around the cigarette. Would you believe, not a trace of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide or smoke? What a Golconda...
...Mencken defined a judge as a law student who grades his own papers," writes Manhattan Internist John Prutting in the New York State Journal of Medicine. "A similar view might be taken of the physician who fails to submit his diagnostic skills to that impartial grader, the autopsy." With that, Dr. Prutting put in a plea for more autopsies, which would enable more doctors to compare more diagnoses with actual causes of death...
Modern medicine has a battery of devices that greatly reduce the dangers of heart attacks - provided they are used in time. The electrocardiograph gives the physician a continuous moving pic ture of how the damaged heart is behaving. A simple oxygen system will do the patient's breathing for him. If his heart stops, electric paddles restart...