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...itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them will end up on the beds of my hospital. I suppose one day I could...
...many years now, oral and maxillofacial surgeons have been warning smokeless-tobacco users of the potential health hazard posed by these products. We are extremely pleased that many lawmakers are now considering legislation requiring warnings on smokeless-tobacco products sold in their states and that the Surgeon General has appointed a panel to study this issue. William E. Hall, D.D.S., President American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Chicago...
...operation was hailed as a marvel of technical virtuosity and medical logic. Cerebral bypass surgery was designed to circumvent one of the most common causes of strokes: a blockage in one of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. To reroute blood around a blocked vessel, the surgeon uses a nearby, less vital artery to build a bypass road. Taking this detour, blood continues to flow to the brain, and the risk of a stroke's occurring is presumably lessened...
DIED. Anthony Mandia, 44, recreation director who was the first human to receive Penn State's total artificial heart last month and ten days later was given a human heart transplant; of organ system failure and infection; in Hershey, Pa. Said Transplant Surgeon John Pennock of Mandia: "He was an extraordinary person to work with. His will to live was as strong...
Weisel, a Milwaukee native whose father played professional hockey while studying to be a surgeon, won several national speed-skating titles as a teenager. After studying economics at Stanford and earning his Harvard M.B.A., he helped form one San Francisco brokerage firm in 1967 and quit four years later to start the forerunner of Montgomery with three colleagues. By 1979 the tenacious Weisel had taken command of the firm...