Word: hernia
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...newsworthy doctor who is currently in trouble with Organized Medicine as a result of clumsy press relations is Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. Last winter an Omaha colleague sent Dr. Truesdale a 10-year-old patient named Alyce Jane McHenry who was suffering from diaphragmatic hernia. Before Dr. Truesdale could operate, the Press had taken possession of the McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked...
...reporter for the A. P. was tousle-headed Dr. lago Galdston (born Israel Goldstein), 41, executive secretary of the New York Academy's Medical Information Bureau and Press Relations Committee, who had, before the McHenry girl reached Fall River, assured New York editors that an operation for diaphragmatic hernia was a surgical commonplace and not worth reporting...
Diaphragmatic hernia is a not uncommon rupture of the horizontal muscle which separates the heart and lungs from the stomach and intestines. Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. repairs diaphragmatic hernia with such skill that the American Medical Association gave him a gold medal for his operative technique. Last month the Press made a great sentimental to-do about one Alyce Jane McHenry, 10, of Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise...
...lump lay beneath the scar of an incision made by a Manhattan doctor at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled six years ago. To stitch up a hernia which Warden Lawes had incurred two years before while wrestling at New Orleans with Chaplain Robert Booth of Clinton Prison, the doctor had cleverly taken a strip of muscle from the patient's leg. The rupture incision healed quickly. The leg wound, on the contrary, took three months to close and ever since had given Warden Lawes trouble. Surgeon Sweet recently diagnosed the growth as a tumor which...
...Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable...