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...keep it covered with a piece of absorbent gauze. Proud and sensitive, Tom managed to keep the secret of his feeding difficulty from all but his closest friends, got through six grades of parochial school, even played backyard football. He went to work first as a plumber's helper, married and had a daughter...
Percy Lawrence, a South London plumber, was a 50-a-day chain smoker. He had worked up to this forced-draft rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
...beat again on being massaged. Dr. Glenn cut through the right pulmonary artery (see diagram) at its beginning near the ventricle, carried the free end around to a hole, half an inch across, cut in the side of the superior vena cava, and stitched it in, like a plumber's elbow joint. Then he tied off the vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried by the superior vena cava) bypassed the right heart completely, went directly to the lungs for oxygenation, then into...
...situation. "The emerging Ph.D," he said, "is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...Economics, medical expenses have actually dropped. Back in 1936, as Dr. King figures it, an electrician had to work 2½ hours to pay for a physician's daytime house call. In 1956 it took him only 1½ hours. To pay for an appendectomy in 1936, a plumber had to work 73½ hours v. a mere 44 in 1956. But the general practitioner who needed 1.28 house calls in 1936 to buy his wife a new pair of shoes now needs 2.28. Where a surgeon could pay his stenographer for a year with fees from 12.36 appendectomies...