Word: surgeon
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...special dialysis machines to treat victims of crush syndrome whose kidneys had been affected, but four days passed before visas arrived. A Japanese offer to send an earthquake rescue team was rejected without explanation, as was a Turkish proposal to send helicopters and cranes. An American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Claude Frechette, who arrived shortly after the earthquake, says he was told by a Soviet doctor in Yerevan that his help was not needed. "The problem is there is no central organization at Yerevan to dispatch people and equipment," Frechette said. "No one knows what anyone else is doing. Information...
That is a message that many Americans obviously need to heed. Although the heart-attack death rate in the U.S. has fallen roughly 3% a year since 1967, too many people are hanging on to the bad old ways. In a report last July, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned Americans that they are still consuming too much saturated fat and that their cholesterol counts are too high. A basic problem is that many Americans -- 79%, according to a Louis Harris poll published earlier this year -- do not know what their cholesterol levels should...
...opened and scraped clean. Doctors also bypass blockages by grafting sections of an abdominal artery around narrowed branches of the iliac artery that lead to the penis. This operation is similar to the one done on clogged coronary arteries, but does not have as high a success rate. Vascular surgeon Ralph DePalma of Washington thinks that vessels to the penis are more fragile because they are subjected to sudden surges in blood pressure...
...except for the gruff, grandfather-like pleas of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to encourage "safe sex" and AIDS education in the schools, the politicians and government officials have been almost universally silent...
Some physicians' incomes could also do with a little liposuction. The average thoracic surgeon last year earned $350,000 in gross income from Medicare billings -- seven times the amount taken in from that source by family doctors. Physicians' gross income from Medicare cases went up 16.3% last year alone. Employees of private industry saw a rise of less than 4% during that same period. Congress should weigh such numbers as it considers revising Medicare fee schedules. Nor are the patients blameless: Americans must come to learn that more expensive machines and elaborate procedures are not always better and that their...