Word: cardiologist
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...Cardiologist Felix Balasco was the pacemaker king of Rhode Island. In the 1970s he implanted more of the devices than any other doctor in the state--a practice that helped him rake in more than $100,000 a year from Medicare patients alone. Balasco's penchant for pacemakers was well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow...
...Captain Leon Hodges, learned of Billig's Monmouth troubles when an unusual circumstance forced the surgeon to come forward. According to Billig, his ex-wife was demanding $5,000 in exchange for silence about the firing. Hodges began an investigation. When he inquired about Billig's competence, a junior cardiologist volunteered that the chief surgeon had "trouble clamping small vessels." Hodges then asked if the young doctor would let Billig operate on his mother or father. The answer...
...girders of the '50s. Contrary to received opinion, Kline had a strong instinct for color, and by 1961 it was at full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave out. Thus what Kline might have done with color--like what Pollock would have produced in the return to figuration he had begun just before his death--can never be known...
...medical centers around the world and only on the most desperately ill patients. Stoffel, together with Dr. Helmut Borberg at the University of Cologne, is treating ten people, most of them with the same condition as Lewis', known to doctors as familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. In Moscow, eminent Soviet Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov is treating another ten FH patients, working closely with the Rogosin Institute in an unusual Soviet-American collaboration. Both overseas groups report that their patients' angina has decreased and that they perform better on stress tests...
...wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...