Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
...work, testing the value of X rays in the study of kidney stones, branching out to see what they could tell about disorders at the base of the skull. In France in World War I, he took X rays for operations to be performed by the late great Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. Dr. Brown worked day & night with virtually unshielded field equipment, ignoring the invisible peril...
...practice, Radiologist Brown realized that some of the warty growths which plagued him were cancerous. He went back to Massachusetts, eked out an existence on an Army disability pension. Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon...
Concluded Dr. Kennedy and colleagues: "Spinal anesthesia is accompanied by many definite and terrible dangers which are far too little appreciated by surgeons and anesthetists. From a neurological point of view, we give the opinion that spinal anesthesia should be rigidly reserved for those patients unable to accept a local or general anesthetic. Paralysis below the waist is too large a price for a patient to pay in order that the surgeon should have a fine relaxed field of operation...
...working on the innards of General Niva, the country's dictator. The operation goes well. Later, over billiards, Villain Hawkins explains just why the general's survival-or at least the illusion of it-is politically urgent at the moment. If the dictator dies, the surgeon's knowledge of the fact would make his liquidation imperative...