Word: rosenbaum
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...standard fixture in consulting rooms, doctors and patients often feel that a checkup is incomplete without its routine ceremonial-daubing with salty goo, taping on electrodes, and letting the machine make wavy lines on squared paper. Confidence in this useful machine has gone too far, says Dr. Francis F. Rosenbaum of Milwaukee. Sometimes it sounds a false alarm, sometimes its "all's well" gives a false sense of security...
...itself, says Dr. Rosenbaum, the electrocardiograph cannot tell the heart's whole story. If the graph shows a minor deviation from normal, the doctor usually mutters something about "strain" and orders the patient to give up some of his favorite activities. This exaggerated caution causes many patients "serious psychologic and economic suffering...
SAMUEL R. ROSENBAUM...
There was, for example, one incomprehensible deal involving what he called "one-half interest in the down payment on the option of $100,000." Then he mentioned an outfit called the Rialb Corp. "What is that?" asked Fulbright. "That," said Rosenbaum pleasantly, "is Blair spelled backwards." Fulbright, with a gesture that got to be common during the week, shut off the witness and exclaimed: "It's too complicated for us ... It's beyond my comprehension...
Houses & Horses. So it went. Chunky Roy Fruehauf, the trailer manufacturer, who was worried about $3,000,000 still owed him on a Lustron contract, testified that Rosenbaum had once told him he had RFC Directors Dunham and Willett "in his hip pocket." Rosenbaum bounced back to the stand and denied he had ever said it. Young tried to explain that he is now in the insurance business, claimed he saved one client $40,000 a year on insurance. How? Young couldn't say-he didn't know much about insurance...