Word: cardiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Nebraska Cardiologist Robert Eliot, on how to cope with stress...
...burst of adrenaline got their muscles primed, their attention focused and their nerves ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response is inappropriate to today's social stresses," says Harvard Cardiologist Herbert Benson, an expert on the subject. It is also dangerous. Says Psychiatrist Peter Knapp of Boston University: "When you get a Wall Street broker using the responses a cave man used to fight the elements, you've got a problem...
Though the Utah team is looking for a second artificial-heart candidate, it plans to proceed slowly. "The artificial heart today is at the stage that the transplants were when those operations began 16 years ago," says Stanford Cardiologist Philip Oyer. "Then no one knew how a patient would do, and there was a lot of skepticism." An encouraging note is that the world's first mechanical-heart recipient survived nearly six times as long as the first heart-transplant patient, who lilived only 19 days. And Clark, for all his suffering, said he would not hesitate to recommend...
...Diethrich, and many other surgeons, performing on-camera was nothing new. His operations had been videotaped for doctors and nurses for nearly a decade. The cardiologist agreed to a request from KAET-TV in Tempe, Ariz., to do a televised operation as part of a month-long health series on the public station. The two-hour segment, picked up by some 100 public TV stations in 33 states, had "a twofold purpose," said KAET Spokeswoman Kathy Banfield: "To alleviate the fears of those who face this surgery" and "to encourage others to give up smoking and other bad habits...
There are as yet no formal ethical guidelines on TV surgery, but a number of doctors reacted with personal criticism of Diethrich. "This was strictly a publicity stunt," said Tucson Cardiologist Burt Strug. "It degrades the medical profession to the level of used-car salesmen." Observed Harvard Heart Surgeon John Collins: "Until now the performance of an operation had been viewed as a private matter between surgeon and patient. We're sufficiently depersonalized in our society already without showing someone's operation on television...