Word: cardiologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...
Very few Americans in Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
...piled up evidence that anti-clotting drugs help to prolong the lives of heart-attack victims by preventing subsequent attacks: in five years only 20% of patients so treated died, 14% of them from heart attacks, while in a comparison group, untreated, 53% died and 60% had further attacks. Cardiologist Manchester also reported on a new anti-clotting drug, Sintrom, valuable because it can be taken by mouth in small doses and works fast...
Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...
Only 30 years ago the diagnosis of angina pectoris "was tantamount to the issuance of a death warrant." Today the panic associated with it has gone, and after 30 more years medical science may have reduced it to the status of an interesting rarity. So says famed Cardiologist Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital in the A.M.A. Journal. Angina pectoris (literally, suffocating pain in the chest) is caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries in a clutching, chronic form-less dramatic than the violent seizure of the heart attack, when a coronary artery actually shuts down...