Word: pathologists
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Until a dozen years ago, most crib deaths were laid to suffocation, and anguished mothers blamed themselves for carelessness. Then Dr. Keith Bowden, an Australian pathologist, did detailed autopsies in 40 consecutive cases and found that suffocation was not the cause in any of them. In most cases, he discovered evidence of a severe respiratory infection, of a type that develops incredibly fast. But for some deaths, he could find no cause...
Extra Oxygen. Because the membrane looks glassy, this condition is called hyaline (from the Greek for glassy) membrane disease. But the pathologist who does a post-mortem examination on a baby is the only man who sees the glassy membrane. If the baby pulls through his first three or four days-usually aided by extra oxygen in his Isolette, and sometimes by a forced-breathing tube pushed down his windpipe through a cut in the neck-the membrane presumably disappears. Along with it go the respiratory difficulties. A baby who survives this crisis usually suffers no permanent damage, and develops...
...doctor or nurse who tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
...others: VA Pathologist Oscar Auerbach, Columbia University Surgical Pathologist Arthur Purely Stout, and American Cancer Society Statistician Lawrence Garfinkel...
Mysteriously, Marshall's cadaver contained 15% carbon monoxide. Estimating that the embalming process had removed another 15%, the pathologist figured 30% at the time of death-not enough to be fatal in itself...