Word: cardiologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like all such ideas, it was tried first on dogs. Last week in Boston Children's Medical Center, a mongrel named Airplane, with a strip of collie in his bar sinister, was dubbed "Dog Research Hero of the Year," invested with a new collar and silver medallion by Cardiologist Paul Dudley White for having helped to prove the operation feasible. Airplane now leads a pampered existence in Dr. Gross's laboratory, gets periodic heart checkups...
...felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis in jigtime: a rupture, creating a tunnel between the aorta and the right auricle of the heart...
...latter year Dr. Paul Dudley White, already enjoying an international reputation as a cardiologist, reported on 200 coronary patients he had seen in his practice, emphasizing that many were still alive five to ten years following their first attack. In 1941 Dr. White, in conjunction with Dr. E.F. Bland, completed his study of these patients. Because treatment has hardly changed at all since then, these figures are still used in estimating the outlook after the first attack...
...News last week marched a strange procession. In the lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and two nurses. In the newspaper's morgue, Cardiologist Adamson opened his box and unveiled an electrocardiograph...
...disease but the patient has been senselessly partitioned. A man's brain, if he had a stroke, was in the province of the general internist. The gangrenous toes of his friend who suffered from Buerger's disease went to the angiologist. His heart belonged to the cardiologist, who grudgingly took responsibility for high blood pressure-but could do little for it. His kidneys were annexed by the urologist. Pleaded Dr. Page at New Orleans this week...