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...also testament to the massive medical advances of the past 300 years. The Silver and Steel Gallery juxtaposes clunky antique surgical tools with the sleek instruments used in operating theaters today. Be grateful that the 18th century skull-trepanning brace-and-bit and the brutal mid-19th century "tumor snare" are safely relegated to a blood-spattered past. tel: (44-20) 7869 6560; www.rcseng.ac.uk/services/museums
...really special is the diversity of the audience. Expect to see suited office workers and bedraggled backpackers, elderly couples and trendy young things, all enjoying everything from toe-tapping swing to bebop. "Tasmanian people aren't afraid of the elements," says Bosak. Neither will you be, when the snare drums are smacked and the saxophones start to blow...
...have become accustomed to hearing every space filled up, and they're throwing everything in. More is there to make you think less. I'm trying to find a balance. You know the old Sun Records, the way they would sound with just the upright bass and guitar and snare drum? That's the sound I love the best. My sound is basically backbeat and Stratocaster guitar or an old Martin guitar. Playing with a synthesizer is not really as much fun as playing with an instrument. I guess those machines are for people who are more inclined...
...Reagan was in an operating room for what was a minor surgical procedure that did not even require a general anesthetic. Doctors inserted into his colon a tube with a wire snare attached to remove the polyp they knew about, and an optical device to allow close examination of the intestine. The second polyp they discovered was too large (about the size of a baby's finger) to be removed in that manner; all they could do then was scrape off some cells from the polyp's periphery for a biopsy. Though Reagan was conscious, he knew none of this...
...this procedure, performed under light sedation, doctors used a colonoscope, a flexible hollow tube with fiber-optic threads, that can be inserted to the full length of the large intestine. Inside the tube is a wire snare that emerges in a loop at the far end. Maneuvering the colonoscope, they placed the loop around the suspect polyp and passed an electric current through the wire which cauterized the polyp, freeing it from the intestinal wall. Held to the end of the colonoscope by suction, the polyp was withdrawn. Using the same instrument, the doctors visually scanned the rest...