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...Shander, 49, an Israeli-born physician who majored in Asian languages as an undergraduate, is passionate about anything, it is blood. Not only because it is, as Goethe observed, "a very special juice," the fluid pumped by our hearts through arteries, veins and capillaries, and without which the body's cells would be starved of oxygen and nutrients; nor only because he knows blood transfusions save lives; nor simply because 70% of those transfusions are administered by anesthesiologists...
...challenged, we extend ourselves," he says. "Some of my colleagues have adopted bloodless medicine purely as a technique. Others have learned that it also has an impact on ethical and humanistic values. I feel that once you become philosophically committed to practicing bloodless surgery, the benefits to patient and physician alike become more and more apparent. Those are my greatest rewards...
...worship. "You're God," exclaims another patient on being told his tumor has been removed. "No, I'm not," Black replies, quietly but firmly. He gets such comments frequently, and they make him very uncomfortable. No one is more acutely aware than Black of the perils of the physician-God complex. A lot of his patients would like him to play God and tell them they will never be sick again. They look for it in his eyes. He is therefore careful not to promise too much, not to let his eyes promise too much, even when there is hope...
...change worked. Paul's family moved to Rhodesia, where he regained his health. Later he attended medical school in Ireland, and, motivated by his childhood illness, became a pulmonologist and a leading asthma expert. "I wish I could speak to that Dublin physician now. He had great insight," says O'Byrne, who has learned that his early asthma attacks were allergic reactions to dust mites, which thrive in damp conditions...
Morton's introduction to glutaric aciduria and the Amish came one night in 1987 while he was on duty in the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A fellow physician, Dr. Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster County. At the time, Danny was alert but had no control over his arms or legs--signs of cerebral palsy, which was Nichter's medical specialty. Morton's testing revealed a metabolic fingerprint that could be caused only by glutaric aciduria, a disorder that had previously been reported only eight...