Word: orthopedist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a routine measure to restore symmetry and balance when one limb, particularly a leg, has been shortened by disease or accident. But there is always a danger of infection; the bone ends may not unite properly, or there may be complications in the soft tissues. An orthopedist will not lightly undertake such operations for the sole purpose of reducing height. Ann Rowston's extreme tallness, however, justified the procedure, and Sur geon Griffiths satisfied himself that she was healthy enough to stand the strain...
Last week the Jets' surgeon, Orthopedist James A. Nicholas, made a diagonal incision on the inner side of the kneecap and exposed the joint. When he opened the joint, he found that the medial meniscus was not simply torn: it was shredded. But he had intended to cut out this whole piece of cartilage anyway, because if any part of a damaged meniscus remains in place it causes erosion of the bone and has to be removed in a later operation. The cyst came out with the meniscus...
...strain on their other children. A few even went so far as to say that distribution of the drug had been the government's fault; therefore it was also the government's responsibility to provide for the children. Then, last year, Dr. Gustav Hauberg, an energetic orthopedist from the state of Lower Saxony, produced a comprehensive plan for taking care of thalidomide babies. Today that plan is a working reality, and throughout Germany, despair for the thalidomide victims has given way to understanding and hope...
...Charnley, is either pressure that shuts off blood flow, or moist skin sticking to the bedsheet, which in turn sticks to the waterproof sheet beneath so that no moisture can escape. Dr. Charnley thought of trying a spongy sort of sheet made of nylon and polyvinyl chloride. But U.S. orthopedists had beaten him to the idea, with animal skins. Milwaukee's Dr. Frederick G. Gaenslen, copying an idea used by his orthopedist-father, uses close-cropped sheepskin...
...damage the organs of sight. If anybody wants to leave his glasses off, that is all right with the permissive Dr. Kaplan, even though "the patient may not see well without them and may consequently fall down steps and break a leg." But that is a problem for the orthopedist, not for the ophthalmologist...