Word: scalpels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hand In. Schmidt is still chugging away on an active schedule. Up at 6 a.m., he makes his hospital rounds, sees office patients, holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
That lightning rational sharpness which is among Olivier's surest assets may also account for a weakness. He freezes such a jet of enchantment as Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered with cold irony; but on the words, Are you honest? he is like a scalpel. He is a particular master of the sardonic, of complex reaction and low-keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with...
...Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he said, the book seriously discusses sexual experiences recollected from early childhood without taking into account all the forces, like dreams, that can distort children's memories...
...weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
...patients admitted every year to U.S. hospitals, about half go in for some kind of operation. That is a fact. Many of those operations should never be performed; and some are performed by bunglers who should never be allowed to handle a scalpel. That is the shocking charge...