Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuel Quezon operated by H. H. Young Oct. 26. Patient en route operating room was very good spirits joking with intimate friends. Spinal anesthesia with novocaine was used also oxygen inhalation by mask. Although fully conscious throughout operation, Quezon stood same excellently, talking at times with surgeon, physicians regarding progress operation. Half hour before a good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid...
While two prison doctors tried to pull the blade from the brain, the prisoner, who had not lost consciousness, smoked a cigaret, chatted quietly. The handle broke off from the blade. The prisoner proceeded to a hospital, with a Catholic chaplain administering final rites. A surgeon with a pair of strong pliers pulled out the blade, leaving Joe Fatigate apparently none the worse for his experience...
...them belong to the "Race's" National Medical Association, and a somewhat lesser number to the all-inclusive American Medical Association. But not one of them belongs to the exclusive American College of Physicians or, until last week, to the equally exclusive, but more progressive, American College of Surgeons. By his election to fellowship Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright of Manhattan's Harlem becomes the nation's No. 1 Negro Surgeon...
...Wright's distinction as a surgeon lies in his handling of fractured skulls, of which hurly-burly Harlem has supplied him with more than 1,000. His special duty as a fellow of the College of Surgeons will be to regiment Negro doctors behind the College's policy of fostering insurance policies to pay hospital bills. As with every intelligent Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited...
Early this year the Medical Society of New York County suspended Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee because the doctors believed that this famed bone surgeon had unethically helped the Seaboard Air Line Railway to publicize his big new sanatorium at Venice, Fla. (TIME, May 21). Dr. Albee denied the charge, claimed that the county society had no real evidence against him, brought suit in a civil court for reinstatement...