Word: surgeon
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...Navy showed less charity in a similar case earlier this month. After a six-month investigation, the Navy reprimanded plastic surgeon Mitchell Grayson, a commander, and fined him $2,000. His offense: borrowing surgical instruments to use in free operations that repaired the cleft palates and harelips of hundreds of Third World children. Grayson has resigned from the Navy to practice in Philadelphia...
...work done by Logan, a retired heart surgeon, and Alonso, a professor of pathology at Atlanta's Morehouse Medical School, started as an effort to treat Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer common in AIDS patients that produces severe skin lesions. The doctors thought that heating a patient's blood might combat the cancer and possibly even kill the AIDS virus. During the procedure, called hyperthermia, blood is drawn from a vein in the groin, heated in a water bath and continuously recirculated into the body. In little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees...
...front. Five more feet and he would have landed in the waiting room. The trauma team dragged him out of the car, raced him into the emergency room, cut off his clothes and tried to use suction equipment to get the blood out of his lungs. A thoracic surgeon was called in to locate the bullet, which had entered his Adam's apple and been deflected into his lung. Hospital officials figured that they would get roughly $71 from the state for treating the patient. The first two hours of his care had already cost...
Other honorary Brandies degree recipients were: Nathan S. Ancell, chairman of the board, emeritus, of Ethan Allen Inc.; Donald Hewitt, executive producer of "60 Minutes"; architect Philip Johnson; former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Norman Leventhal Beacon Companies; writer and novelist. Cynthia Ozick; and Simone Veil, former president of the European Parliamentary Assembly; and Clara McBride Hale, a New York City resident who has spearheaded programs for ill and drug-addicted children...
...could such a mistake occur? Explained Reeves, an 80-year-old retired surgeon who was elected coroner 26 years ago: "There was nothing to autopsy. It was just a charred mass of tissue, which was definitely a body because I could identify intestines and liver. Everything else was gone." He admits he was "depressed" to learn about his error, but is braced for any criticism. "I'll tell you what I'll do if it gets too nasty," Reeves says. "I'll quit...