Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getty is the most famous patient among 150 who have acquired new ears through the specialized skills of Plastic Surgeon Burt Brent, 39. His case is also among the most difficult that have confronted Brent, because of the savagery with which the ear was hacked off and the infection that followed, leaving Brent very little natural tissue to work with. So far Getty's ear form has been substantially recreated, but further surgery to refine both its form and appearance remains necessary...
...crucial facts. One part reported on "psychic surgery," in which Filipino healers supposedly diagnose tumors and other problems, then use psychic forces-not scalpels-to make incisions and treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...
Brainard should know. The St. Paul surgeon is one of millions of Americans who chronically suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
Once upon a time, when she was a student at Brown, Cipolla thought she was headed for med school. Her father is a surgeon, and the other seven children in her family are all doing things scientific. It took her some time, she says, to "stop criticizing and analyzing, to just react, spontaneously," a change she feels had to come if she was to get serious about...
...moment, Panama does not have the skilled manpower to take over the canal. But it has 23 years to train pilots, technicians and mechanics-a sufficient amount of time, one would think, since it takes a mere twelve years to train a brain surgeon. Panama has also said it would hire other nationals if there are not enough native citizens...