Word: anesthesiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volunteers themselves acknowledge, what drives them to undertake such missions of mercy -- and others far more perilous -- is not something easily explained or understood. "I know it is not possible to save everybody in the world," says Dr. Jean-Louis Menciere, a French anesthesiologist working in Sri Lanka, "but to do something about it is better than doing nothing." As more and more people become committed to the idea that, as Bernard Kouchner puts it, "mankind's suffering belongs to all men," the day may not be far off when there will be a substantial pool of medical personnel...
...operation is salvaged. It is wrung out by hand from the saturated sponges directly into a bowl of saline solution. The solution is filtered and then passed into a centrifuge, where the red blood cells are separated. Within 15 minutes the reclaimed blood is back in circulation. Says Northwestern anesthesiologist Ann Ronai: "We're trying to salvage as much blood as possible during the operation, because it's better than somebody else's." The savings can be enormous: when the sponge method is combined with conventional suction, 90% of lost blood can be returned...
...point code of ethics, and a committee is available to punish those who might spice their lyrics with a double entendre or even a Swedish joke. The panel hasn't had to meet in years. "People like to ridicule us as a bunch of squares," declares Sarasota, Fla., anesthesiologist Hank Vomacka with a wink. "But they keep coming back to listen...
...rather does not deal with it. His choice of profession summarizes his psychology: he becomes an anesthesiologist. Another way of putting it is that he tries his best to follow his family's tradition of quietism and indifference to large events. But Holland is a small country, and it is impossible to escape from people who are part of his past. If he will not pursue the evidence that will help explain his life's crucial occurrence, the evidence, as it turns out, will pursue him. Like the furies, the facts are inescapable...
...learned his trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn Miller. And before his education was done, he had also played with Jack Teagarden and Maynard Ferguson. Then for 38 years he was a dentist and anesthesiologist in Hempstead, on Long Island. He produced two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry, and Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry, neither of which is as much fun as, say, Stomping at the Savoy...