Word: chesting
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General Ridgway, the grenades that he carries on his chest glistening in the rain, stepped to the center flagpole. After a momentary hitch caused by a wet lanyard, a huge blue U.N. banner was unfurled, dominating all the flags of nations...
Part of being nice is being simple. Truman recalls a colleague who told a patient: "You have an area of stringy shadows from your hilar region extending to the base, and I can hear a few crackles in your chest." Says Truman: "Actually, 'Aba-ca-dav-snaba-pooh' would have conveyed as much meaning to the patient [who had a mild bronchopneumonia...
Truman's better way: "You remember when you had a sore throat how the inside of your throat looked and felt; well, the same sort of condition exists farther down in your chest...
...When I myself lie dying," said Dr. Alvarez, "I hope I will have by me some wise, kindly physician who will keep interns from frequently pulling me up to examine my chest, or from constantly puncturing my veins, or from giving me enemas or drastic medicines. I am sure that at the end I will very much want to be left alone...
...could cut a man open with a deft touch, lay his vital organs on his chest and put them all back inside again . . . He straightened noses painlessly with a pine broomstick and a hammer. In all things that counted in medicine, he was up to date...