Word: anesthesiologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family practitioner who refers him to a nearby cardiologist, who then refers the patient to a tertiary center like Duke. He's evaluated by a clinical cardiologist, then goes to a group of diagnostic laboratory cardiologists and radiologists. If the patient is to be operated on, the surgeons, the anesthesiologist, the pump team, the blood bank in the institution that feeds the pump are involved. The patient goes to a special recovery room with specially trained people to watch him. He's there five days with round-the-clock care. He goes to a rehabilitation unit for the rest...
Nevertheless, the single source of dramatic energy in this crude thriller is Crichton's exploitation of the audience's rational and irrational fear of doctors and hospitals - the always reliable "Let me out of here!" reaction as the anesthesiologist's gas mask clamps down over the face, and the familiar "Yuck" effect as the surgeon's bloody hands dip into the body cavity. This is arrogant moviemaking: its assumption is that the proles will buy their tickets and march unprotestingly through the fun house no matter how evident is the contemptuousness of the barkers...
...surgeons but by a medical-equipment salesman who had no more than an eighth-grade education. Calling it "the most scandalous case it has ever been my duty to prosecute," the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney has already obtained indictments against the two doctors, as well as the anesthesiologist, supervisory nurse and hospital, charging them with second-degree assault and the attempted cover-up of a crime. The four individuals have pleaded not guilty. But state investigators say that the case is only a beginning, and that there will be similar revelations of surgical wrongdoing in other places...
...Anesthesiologist; New York City...
...Anesthesiologist Carl Coppolino, acquitted of killing his lover's husband, but later convicted, despite another Bailey defense effort, of murdering his wife...