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During surgery, bloodless practitioners often do everything they can to stave off any blood loss that might require a transfusion. Among the techniques: cryosurgery to freeze tissue to be removed, or use of a harmonic scalpel, a vibrating laser that simultaneously cuts tissue and clots blood. Brain surgeons treating tumors and repairing blood-vessel malformations are also using a state-of-the-art gamma "knife" that delivers a high dose of radiation to precise points in the head through tiny holes in a helmet that resembles a salon hair dryer...
...doctors to refine their operating techniques enormously with the aid of more sophisticated medical technology. Today they can chart a far safer passage to tumors hidden deep in the brain. But, more to the point for Schuler, Dr. Keith Black, the man who stands over her exposed brain with scalpel in hand, is one of the world's most talented brain surgeons, known for working with the most difficult of brain tumors...
...just another routine case," says Dr. Mahlon Johnson. In 1992, as the Vanderbilt University neuropathologist was removing the brain of a man who had died of AIDS, his hand suddenly slipped. The bloody scalpel sliced through his glove and deep into his left thumb. Because of that "freaky little slip of the scalpel," as Johnson ruefully characterizes it, he endured seven "nerve-racking" months. He took several HIV tests--all were negative. Then the result that he had been dreading came in: he was HIV positive...
...suppose that, all in all, watching Chicago Hope is probably not the best way to prepare for surgery. Just about all the doctors do on that program is complain about their lives or argue with one another about who left the scalpel in some poor bozo's lower intestine. I pointed out a long time ago that if anybody you knew in Chicago found himself in that hospital, the best thing you could do for him would be to put him in an ambulance and get him across town to the doctors on ER. Those guys seem to cure just...
...this point that I, Corey Holiday--magnificent, admired, talented and feted the world over--after countless years of enthusiastic compliance with the rigors of beauty and the surgeon's scalpel, decided at age 50 it was time to obey Mother Nature's gentle call...