Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went to work on Piper. For over five hours, they followed the crowbar's path, repairing damaged organs as they discovered them through two incisions in the Building Wrecker's abdomen...
...students aren't happy with the administration. They almost had a quiet student power demonstration last week to get a student representative into faculty meetings. But plans were cancelled at the last minute. Students haven't been allowed to smoke cigarettes since the Surgeon General's Report. They are allowed to smoke pipes...
...moth's digestive system. Analysis of the moth's digestive apparatus showed that there was a large amount of protein-digesting enzyme present but it was not certain this was the same enzyme as in the liquid. To confirm that the enzymes were the same, Kafatos became a bug surgeon, removing the midgut of twenty moths. As expected, none of the moths produced any liquid. Yet he was not satisfied with the result: it seemed too easy. He later realized that the pupae he used had been refrigerated for some time to prevent them from developing into moths...
...starred in basketball and made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Texas. After getting his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University, he stayed on as an intern and resident at the Hopkins' University Hospitals and served as what he calls "a very junior assistant" to the great surgeon Alfred Blalock, who was soon to perform the world's first blue-baby operations. That association determined Cooley's future course, and he has been a heart man ever since...
Miniaturized Surgery. After a year in London working with Britain's noted heart surgeon Lord Brock, Cooley returned to his native Houston and was associated at Baylor University College of Medicine with Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28, 1965). The DeBakey-Cooley team at Methodist Hospital pioneered many innovations in heart surgery before Cooley moved next door to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, which is also affiliated with Baylor. There he has established an independent reputation as one of the greatest of heart surgeons and almost certainly the world's greatest in the incredibly difficult...