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...latest addition to the shelf is JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (Signet; 205 pages; $4.99 paper) by Charles A. Crenshaw. It is the first account written by a doctor who was part of the Parkland Memorial Hospital trauma team that tried to save Kennedy and, two days later, his assassin (sorry, alleged assassin), Lee Harvey Oswald...
...reason for the surging popularity of videoscope surgery is simple: correctly performed, it can dramatically reduce surgical trauma. Since 1987, when the first diseased gall bladder was removed in this fashion, rave reviews from patients have made it almost rare for a gall bladder to be removed the old-fashioned way. And for good reason. "Before," says Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that...
...year or two ago might have imagined. Already, of nearly 600,000 gall bladders that are removed in the U.S. annually, an estimated three-quarters are removed laparoscopically. Other common operations, from hysterectomies to hernias, seem likely to follow suit. At Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago, a trauma team has begun using the technology to diagnose injuries from knife wounds and automobile crashes. Soon the team expects to move from diagnosis to laparoscopic repair of tears to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Eventually, if doctors become convinced that operations performed in this manner do not inadvertently spread malignant cells...
...agony? Why the trauma of discovering you're (oh my God) not popular after all? I looked at my friends screaming at each other over Adams or Kirkland and decided to screw the lottery...
...cool Clinton is suffering from the pressure of the campaign. The furor over his alleged romance with Gennifer Flowers and his draft status during the Vietnam War nearly sank Clinton's candidacy. Though he staged a gutsy comeback, neither his campaign nor his image has fully recovered from the trauma. Says his campaign manager, David Wilhelm: "Because of what happened to us, we lost for the time being the aura of the serious, thoughtful candidate...