The_Invention_of_Surgery

long-standing tuberculous joint infections (which typically do not generate pus), but following surgery, all of his patients wer ...

by Dr. J. Porter Michaels, a Parisian dentist. The shaft component was made of a platinum cylinder with two ridges and several h ...

Like heeding a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag, surgeons were properly menaced by the thought of chronic infection in any joint wherein ...

age sixty-seven. Dr. Smith-Petersen was a native of Norway who attended high school and college in Wisconsin, then completed his ...

gliding surface; in short order, those who cared to scrutinize their results realized that cartilage was more special than they ...

that was gaining favor among dentists. Austenal Laboratories had been founded by Dr. Reiner Erdle and Dr. Charles Prange with th ...

and surrounding tissues. Experimenting on twenty-four dogs, a dizzying array of metal screws were placed close to each in the fo ...

mechanized emotional response to those patients was a fatalistic acceptance of a life in a wicker wheelchair. The enterprising s ...

in attendance was a surgeon from Oklahoma City, with a sixty-five-year- old female patient in tow. Dr. Earl McBride was there to ...

environment in the United States (and the rest of the world), combined with the technological explosion and the advancement of a ...

TWELVE Oversight and Entitlement “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.” —Preside ...

essence of iodine (which always reminds me of my veterinarian father) mixed with bygone cleaning supplies and old-fashioned floo ...

her not being a phantom. She finally asks me, “Do you know where Room 312 is?” Standing up, I make my way to my vagabond friend, ...

there is a walled-off former main entrance on the east side of the old brick building. I look closer, and chiseled above the ent ...

would be shuttered, rendered impractical following the formation of Medicare. Medicare is the single largest payer for health ca ...

returning to Waco to practice law. Critically, Kimball then worked as counsel for the receiver in the case of a bankrupt chain o ...

As school superintendent, Kimball had full knowledge of the numbers of teachers “insured” through their sick benefit fund, and n ...

With America teetering on the brink of the Great Depression, plans began to spring up around the country. Initially centered aro ...

Blue Shield was born. Years later, Blue Cross and Blue Shield nationalized and conglomerated into one large corporation. The fou ...

Between 1940 and 1946, the number of group and individual hospitalization policies held by commercial companies rose from 3.7 to ...