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...team that produced this package includes writers, reporters and editors Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Kate Stinchfield, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Belinda Luscombe, John Cloud and Richard Corliss. The look of the package is the handiwork of associate art director Chrissy Dunleavy and photo editor Crary Pullen. Authors Carl Zimmer, Lori Oliwenstein and Steven Pinker also contributed stories...
...Stinchfield's specialty was total hip replacement-VIPs traveled thousands of miles to be his patients. Yet after doing one with him, he would routinely say "that was great boy, you know you can do that operation better than I can." Certainly none of us really believed this, but it still made you feel good enough to call home and tell the folks...
...complicated world of doctor-patient relationships, "informed" consent and the like, Dr. Stinchfield was refreshingly old school. To the patient facing surgery his pre-op discussion of risks and benefits was generally something like: "Anything can happen here but I give you my word that I'll do the very best I possibly can". He meant it - and they knew it - and however the operations came out they loved him. (Remember these were the early days of joint replacement and they didn't always work...
...Years before, Dr. Stinchfield had fallen off a horse, and over time his back injury and complications from surgeries left him in constant pain, barely able to get out of bed. At the time, I had to sleep in the hospital every fourth night, so it was fun to visit "the Boss" in his hospital room; the one bit of New York he seemed to have picked up was staying up late. We talked about the old operations he did, field hospitals he set up during the war, the famous orthopedists he knew (He knew them all). We also talked...
...pain? We kept asking 'what do you think?' but he wouldn't say anything. His annoyed facial expression, however, said enough. We all agreed that he must have been in pain, so we took him out the grand electric doors, back across the street. Breathing pretty hard, Dr. Stinchfield finally leaned on a parking meter near the old hospital, and catching his breath, he declared, "Well I'll tell you one thing, boy, it's not about taking care of sick people". We didn't know which particular boy he was talking to, but every one of us knew that...