Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jolting a patient repeatedly with 20,000 volts of low-current electricity block the effects of a venomous snakebite? Dr. Ronald Guderian has no answer; he knows only that the treatment seems to work. "After we help people, we can ask questions," says Guderian, an American missionary physician working in the Amazon rain forests of Ecuador. Snakebites account for 4% of deaths in the region, and survivors sometimes suffer tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully...
...astronauts probably survived the explosionand breakup of the shuttle orbiter and could havehad 6 to 15 seconds of "useful consciousness"inside the crew compartment after the blast, saidDr. Joseph Kerwin, an astronaut-physician whoinvestigated the cause of death for the crew...
...minor ailments and suggesting over-the-counter medications. Even so, they can spare patients many costly trips to the doctor, and they often make house calls. These nurses are especially helpful to the elderly and people with chronic diseases, who may need close watching but not always by a physician...
...sometimes prescribes a pot of her own chicken soup, which she drops by a patient's home. Jean Sweeney-Dunn, who runs Community Nursing Services for the Elderly in Elmira, N.Y., asks $2 for a urine test and $5 for a blood-sugar analysis, a fraction of what a physician would charge...
...assault of fame. "There are too many letters and phone calls," he laments. "After a while I long to get away." He has just done so, visiting his home in London. One's roots can, after all, inspire one to keep going. His father is a physician who still practices...