Word: scalpeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget has put the House in so fierce a cutting mood that if a Congressman offered a bill to cut the Ten Commandments to eight it would pass. Last week the House slashed away at the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill, and its mood had a scalpel's edge. In seven days of surgery on Labor and HEW, the Congressmen trimmed $69 million off the Appropriations Committee's $2.9 billion bill. Then, before the patient had regained consciousness, the surgeons stitched back nearly 80% of what they...
...wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then he stood by, relaxed, while an assistant cut deeper. To the surgical nurse standing on a low stool at the foot of the operating table, surrounded...
Characteristic Candor. Early this year, unable to shake off the aftereffects of a bout with flu, Evarts Graham went for a checkup to Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just...
...that interrelation of characters and events which suggests more than appears on the surface. The surgeon who bends over Arcularis as he lies on the operation table reappears as another passenger on the dream voyage. And this passenger is the owner of the chisel which Arcularis likens to a scalpel, and with which he tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other characters from the hospital scene reappear on the ship: the gentle, inefficient nurse, as Arcularis' first serious love...
...surgeons have been almost unanimous for more than half a century that the thing to do was to cut out the diseased and apparently useless organ as fast as possible. In the last dozen years, many have wondered whether antibiotics might do the job as well as the scalpel, but few have dared to take a chance. In the British Medical Journal, Surgeon Eric Coldrey reports that, in three years at Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, he has taken this chance in 137 cases of acute appendicitis and has lost only one patient (a feeble man of 78, who succumbed...