Word: radiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a new and far less traumatic option for some disk patients. Known as percutaneous automated diskectomy, it is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia through a tiny (2 mm long) incision in the back. Developed by Radiologist Gary Onik and Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the operation breezed through its clinical trials, and has been performed on some 15,000 patients around the country -- at approximately one-third the cost of conventional surgery...
...novel that otherwise breaks new ground for him. Imago (Penzler; 244 pages; $16.95) is a mystery that offers no real mystery, no official detective, no police action of consequence and no crime -- yet is flavored with an authentic elixir of suspicion and dread. The central character is a radiologist caught up in what his psychiatrist colleagues would label a mid-life crisis: thunderstruck by the nubile daughter of old friends, he undertakes a frenzied search for signs of reciprocity. The result is either hysteria or someone's genuine plot to drive him crazy. Imago lacks the sociological acuity and command...
...application is sitting on somebody's desk while a great many people are suffering intolerably," said Dr. Thomas Crowe, 73, a Northampton radiologist who retired 10 years ago when his involuntary blinking rendered him unable to work. He is one of 2,000 patients who have written appeals to the FDA and Congress to speed approval of the drug...
...multimillion-dollar liability suit, the six-member partnership faced a shortage of able-bodied attorneys to handle depositions. St. Clair's solution: the firm hired six lawyers for the job as temps. In the same fashion, when St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., needed a qualified radiologist to work for just a month to cover for vacationing staff, they rented the services of a physician who had most recently done similar stints at hospitals in Fort Kent, Me., and Ketchikan, Alaska...
...Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger." According to Gale, "thousands" of Ukrainians could suffer radiation-induced cancer in the future...