Word: surgeon
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Here's a bipartisan program that is saving taxpayers millions every year: nearly 250 of the government's 726 most senior jobs are going unfilled, an unusually slow pace even by Clinton standards. Posts prestigious and powerful are going begging: Surgeon General, ambassador to Russia, head of the Food and Drug Administration, five of the top six slots at Justice and the Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Several factors are at work...
...inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny. He identified with scientists, many of whom he knew, and in a portrait of a surgeon, he produced what many regard as America's greatest 19th century painting, The Gross Clinic...
When I had an operation several years ago, I asked my surgeon to start giving me pain killers while I was still in surgery, since I had read that this procedure would help curb postoperative pain. Not only did he do so, but he also gave me a morphine pump so I could administer my own pain medication. But most important, I was controlling a part of my recuperation. I didn't end up a drug addict, and was out of the hospital sooner than expected. LISA GONZALEZ Los Osos, Calif...
...basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body's different systems--cardiovascular, reproductive and so on--work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony. The flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts...
...ruptured tubal pregnancy. An abdominal incision that spattered the operating room with Hansen's blood proved him wrong. By chance, Nuland was checking on two patients at St. Raphael's when the loudspeaker crackled an urgent plea--"part outcry for help and part call to arms"--for any general surgeon to go to the operating room. With Hansen on the verge of death, Nuland took charge and located the trouble: an aneurysm of the splenetic artery. In chilling but mesmerizing detail, he explains how he slowed, then stopped, the bleeding and excised the damaged artery. Afterward, this veteran of hundreds...