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Williams' eyes were black, and there was clotted blood on his face, on his scalp and inside his mouth. Dr. Fournier, thinking the blood covered abrasions caused by a blackjack or brass knuckles, sent his patient to be X-rayed for possible skull fractures. The radiologist took one look at the X-ray print and gasped: "This man has a head full of lead." He had found five low-caliber, low-velocity bullets. Beneath the clotted blood were wounds that could hardly have been caused by anything but bullets...
...Michigan Radiologist Hugh T. Caumartin, for one, decided the sacrifice was more than worthwhile. As a World War II victim of leg injuries from machine-gun fire, he had to get a fitness clearance. When Orthopedist Hugh L. Sulfridge Jr. checked Caumartin and pronounced him fit, Sulfridge himself caught the volunteer spirit. Both doctors flew out last month, Caumartin to read X rays and teach radiological techniques in Saigon, while Sulfridge went to the 70-year-old complex of decaying buildings that makes up the hospital at Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of the capital, in the steaming Mekong Delta...
...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...