Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other patients, a variation of the new technique may make bypass surgery feasible. Explains Cardiac Surgeon Eugene Wallsh: "When you have too many obstructions in an artery, you can't bypass each one. But with the balloon catheter, you can open up some blocks and then bypass others." Wallsh has done just that in six patients. Adds Stertzer: "It might also be possible to reopen bypass grafts that have closed down...
Rear Admiral George G. Burkley, U.S. Navy, personal physician to the President, brought her into the operating room, insisting "it's her prerogative, it's her prerogative." Doctor Malcolm Perry, the operating surgeon, wanted her out. But she said, "It's my husband, his blood, his brains are all over...
...L.H.D., surgeon, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
...human will, perhaps even creativity. In the fantastically complex circuitry of the brain, hard science may have reached the limit of its power to identify cause and effect. To go beyond the limit may be to court disaster. Restraint would seem to be in order, lest one day a surgeon will say in frustration that he had to destroy a human mind in order to save...
...abortion debate. Some attempted to make a martyr of Edelin, who is black. Others supported his accusers, who were, as it turned out, only public prosecutors doing what they considered a distasteful job. Few understood the controversy or viewed the personalities with objectivity. Dr. William Nolen, the Litchfield, Minn., surgeon who first won a national following with his 1970 book The Making of a Surgeon, was one of those...