Word: physicians
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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...
...Cain understandably called in a Mayo Clinic surgical team whose members he knows well and with whom he has learned to work smoothly. Chief Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck, 50, son of a former Mayo physician, is a man of whom his wife says: "His outstanding quality is that he is always composed under stress"-a quality that was highly useful when he slit open the belly of the President of the United States at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. To assist him in the operation, Dr. Hallenbeck brought his Mayo colleague, Dr. Donald C. McIlrath, 36. Behind his distinguished...
Live Without It. X rays ordered by the White House physician, Vice Admiral George G. Burkley, confirmed his suspicion of a poorly functioning gall bladder. A second set of X rays, forwarded to the President's longtime friend and personal physician, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, gave added evidence that the gall bladder contained stones. Since some bile always passes directly through the common duct from the liver to the duodenum, and the duct seems able to develop some storage capacity of its own, man can live without his gall bladder. Thus surgery to remove...
...hundred years ago, one learned how to heat the sick by apprenticing oneself to a physician and watching how he did things. The best medical schools, Harvard included, simply corporated this system into a loose academic homework, supplementing it with some formal instruction. Apparently, this instruction was at very thorough; it ran four months of the year, and the final examinations (oral) were would to have been scandalously easy. Faculty members collected their salaries directly from students, who had to buy tickets for each course they took...
...excellent education in medical science and clinical medicine. But those who hope to find at it a sort of general education in science, we want to be Renaissance Men, who hope to find on to their College ties, or who simply to have a good time learning to be physician thought to prepare for considerable frustration and difficulty in achieving their goals