Word: radiologist
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With a license from the Atomic Energy Commission, a radiologist named Harris Levine began some dangerous tinkering at his New Jersey home. Using the radioactive isotope americium 241, he devised a technique for spotting counterfeit money. The trick was to contaminate the engraver's ink with a trace of a radiation-free isotope, boron 10, activate it with americium and then pick out the bills that did not properly respond to detectors...
...victim's body. While contagion is virtually impossible, this is only slight comfort to the victims. As americium spreads through the body, it may linger in such areas as the liver, spleen and lymph system and eventually settle into the marrow of the bones. According to Pittsburgh Radiologist Niel Wald, a leading radiation specialist, the effect over a year-long period is roughly equivalent to the radiation produced by ten X rays. No one is quite sure about the ultimate damage to the chromosomes. The only treatment: intravenous injection of chemicals known as chelating agents (named for the chelae...
...lifetime care to a patient for a flat or annual fee, and thus rules out prepayment by an annual dues system. It means that when a patient goes into a hospital for an operation, he must pay the admitting doctor's bill, a separate surgeon's bill, a separate radiologist's bill for X rays and a separate anesthesiologist's bill...
...inaccessible places is the labyrinth of arteries inside the brain. But at the latest meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Sadek K. Hilal demonstrated a catheter with a magnetic tip that "swims" through small and tortuous arteries and can be guided to the exact spot that the radiologist or neurologist wants to reach...
...racist environment," says Manhattan's Dr. John V. Cordice Jr., "a Negro is better received where there's a minimum of contact with patients. For example, a radiologist-all he does is look at X rays. A pathologist is acceptable because he deals only with cadavers and specimens. A pediatrician is pretty well received; somehow, it's all right for a black man or black woman to handle children-an extension of the black-nanny syndrome...