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...Patients view the YAG as a kind of miracle," says Dr. Stephen Trokel of New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, one of about a dozen U.S. medical centers equipped with the $100,000 machine. Indeed, Florence Clemens, 74, one of Trokel's postcataract patients, reports that although no anesthetic was used, "there was no pain, just the sensation of a very bright, multicolored light." Best of all, when the $900 procedure was over, Clemens could "go right home and start dinner...
...live on towels for up to 72 hr. and on toilet seats for at least four. In one test, a seat used by a woman with thigh lesions showed live herpes viruses 90 min. later. But most doctors down-play the U.C.L.A. study. Dr. Harold Kessler of Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's, in Chicago, says herpetics should use their own towels, though the chances of passing on the infection via a towel are only about 1%. The virus dies so fast on a toilet seat, he says, that the risk of infection from that source is very slight indeed...
...Chautauqua was founded by Methodists as a boot camp for Sunday-school teachers, and even today an empty bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian House, red brick with white trim, and to the other side is the substantial United Church of Christ Center, red brick with yellow trim. On the 856 acres owned by the institution, there are more church buildings than tennis courts, and there are a lot of tennis courts...
...York City, for example, Mount Sinai and Presbyterian hospitals are planning modernization programs that when completed are projected to cost a combined total of more than $1 billion. Officials at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the nation's largest privately operated group medical complex, offer the startling calculation that, nationwide, it costs as much as $9 million to add a year of life to the seriously ill patient through such ultramodern technologies as kidney dialysis and organ transplants...
...Stuart Magruder, 47, former Haldeman aide and deputy director of Nixon re-election committee. Admitted plotting burglary and participation in coverup. Served seven months. Completing graduate study at Princeton Theological Seminary. Chosen last month over 120 other applicants to be assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif. "I paid my debt to society and more," he says. "Is anybody free...