Word: radiologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told one colleague over lunch: "If you could only see, you wouldn't be able to swallow your sandwich." He remained in private practice nonetheless; he owned a $12,000 home near Redondo Beach, was earning $12,-000 a year. But it palled, and finally he told a radiologist friend: "I'm going back. I can't stand doing hernias and hemorrhoids any more." Some Exotica. Signing on as medical missionaries for $3,230 a year, the Carlsons arrived at Wasolo in October 1963-and were promptly greeted by several cases of hernia and hemorrhoids...
Clams ? Tenacity. Now back in Seattle, Chief University of Washington Radiologist Lauren R. Donaldson and his team are trying to solve the problems raised by the high survival rate on the atolls. Part of the answer surely lies with the tropical atolls themselves, where soothing trade winds and warm ocean currents forever bring birds, fish and seeds from far, unbombed shores. But another part of the puzzle may be the manner in which animals absorb and then throw off radiation. Donaldson and company have brought back hundreds of fish and wildlife samples from the atolls, are now analyzing them...
Among patients treated at some ma jor medical centers with massive doses of radiation, the "fiveyear cure rate" is much higher. At Palo Alto, Radiologist Kaplan's team gives huge doses of radiation from a linear accelerator. Two out of three of their patients live five years or longer, and they are "dying at the same rate as the general population," said Dr. Kaplan...
...arti est of arty photographers. In his darkened studio, the temperature has to be just right-a steady 68° to 72°. He insists that subjects stretch out and relax for 15 minutes before the first picture is snapped. But Dr. Gershon-Cohen, a radiologist at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, is the extremely careful scientist, not the temperamental artist. Borrowing a technique space researchers use to take temperature readings of Venus, he photographs the human body's surface heat with a novel infra-red camera...
With the lower colon inactivated, surgeons removed the cancer. Apparently it had not spread. As a further precaution, Radiologist Orville Meland of the Los Angeles Tumor Institute implanted platinum needles containing tiny radium pellets. "For the next six months we simply waited," Powell recalls. "I had a lot of examinations but led a reasonably normal life. I did quite a few radio shows, though I couldn't make movies. The worst thing about the situation was the esthetics...