Word: surgeon
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...lowering of blood oxygen. The other patient was having an operation on his knee when he swallowed his tongue and started to choke. The chart gave warning in time. The machine has proved especially useful in long operations and in all operations on the heart. It can tell the surgeon, even before he sews up the incision, whether an operation on the heart of a blue baby is a success or a failure...
Knife & Radiation. "External forces" are the business of Sloan-Kettering Institute and all the other centers of cancer research, which are spending something like $50 million in the U.S. annually. At present the only known cure for cancer is destruction: the surgeon's knife or radiation (X rays and radium). Such methods work well with some forms of cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital...
Differential Effect. Surgery cannot help the other 9,000,000. Many cancers involve vital organs that cannot be disturbed, or metastases which spread so quickly and widely throughout the body that the surgeon cannot find and remove them all. To deal with such cancers some agent is needed that has a strong "differential effect," i.e., that kills cancer cells without hurting normal tissue. A few such drugs are already known, but they are only a start, and not good enough...
Surgery "of a somewhat crude nature" then does what it can to repair the damage. It can shut off some of the abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape...
Last week Sir Heneage, who is 61 and senior surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London, was working a 14-hour day, as usual...