Word: radiologist
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...understand that you cooked my breast with microwaves?" the woman angrily asked Dr. Norman Sadowsky, chief radiologist at Boston's Faulkner Hospital. Sadowsky reassured her that he had not. Yet her concern is typical of the initial response to the hospital's breast-cancer detection program. To help in the all-important early discovery of a disease that has reached epidemic levels in the U.S. (90,000 cases a year), Faulkner radiologists are using microwaves to spot breast cancers...
...little antenna built by Barrett and an M.I.T. colleague, Philip Myers, is placed against nine different sites on the breast and held at each for about 10 seconds. If one spot turns out to be significantly hotter than a comparable area on the other breast, the supervising radiologist is alerted and can make other checks for a tumor, including X rays...
...soviet team, which includes three surgeons, a pharmacologist, a radiologist, a therapist, and a professor of social hygiene, is headed by Alexei G. Safonov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of Public Health...
...Malcolm Tweed, 59, a casketmaker from Chula Vista, Calif., visited a general practioner in 1972, complaining about a pain in his right shoulder. The doctor diagnosed his problem as arthritis, ignored a suggestion by a consulting radiologist that "a tumor must also be considered," and gave him 41 costly shots of a steroid drug over a three-month period. As the pain in his shoulder intensified, Tweed consulted an orthopedic surgeon, who X-rayed him and misdiagnosed the problem. Eight months later, an associate of the orthopedic surgeon happened to see Tweed's X rays and identified the illness...
...Nixon's left leg in areas other than the femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were new ones) were found higher in his leg. Dr. Scott H.M. Driscoll, the Memorial Hospital radiologist who did the venogram, described Nixon's deep venous system as "99 and 44/100% clotted...