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Family Doctor Meyer Cohen listened to Stanley's chest, heard noises suggesting bronchial pneumonia; Stanley's temperature was 101, his abdomen was rigid, and he had lost 20 lbs. Dr. Cohen insisted that the patient should be in a military hospital, arranged for his admission to Great Lakes Naval Hospital (where, under unification, the Navy cares for Army patients). There was a delay, however, while the family waited for a Chicago Tribune photographer. On admission, Stanley's temperature was 103. He had virus pneumonia...
...would damage his brain beyond repair, so there was no time to take him to a sterile operating room. The anesthetist promptly slipped a tube through the patient's mouth into the windpipe, started pumping oxygen into it. Dr. Owens grabbed a scalpel and cut open the left chest. He reached in, pushed the left lung aside and grasped the patient's heart. Sixty times a minute he squeezed the heart, "with the pressure applied from the bottom up, like milking a cow backwards." With each squeeze, blood was pumped through the arteries, carrying oxygen to the brain...
...breathe, faintly and slowly. Twenty-two long minutes later, Owens felt a movement in the heart. He took his hand away, slowly and tentatively. The heart kept on beating. He felt for the pulse. It was good. The man was alive again. Dr. Owens hurriedly sewed up the chest and rushed the patient to an oxygen tent...
...cellmates. Most of them he knew only by their first names and most of them were obscure writers and back-lot workers. The whole affair, said Hayden, now seemed "the stupidest, most ignorant thing I've ever done. Believe me, it's a load off my chest...
...makes a person's chest expand with pride to see the foresighted measures that the University is taking to make sure we are REALLY prepared no matter what comes. And none of your loud street-corner shouting about it to tip the wrong people off as to what is really going on either...