The_Invention_of_Surgery

of comprehensive understanding. I am hoping that my injections into the hands themselves will work. The nurse has pulled the lid ...

the only Bible passage he knows, Henry adds, “Jesus wept.” I am stupefied. I am at my breaking point, and by some miracle, my ch ...

hands, and only “observed, speculated, and prescribed.”^2 During the 18th century, the members of the Royal College of Physician ...

On August 21, 1883, a cataclysmic tornado ripped through the tiny town of Rochester, Minnesota. The F5 tornado (winds greater th ...

his tiny office and in the homes of his patients; there had simply been no demand for a hospital, and Dr. Mayo was likely one of ...

dreaming about. Constructing a hospital building with modern features was also possible; filling it with up-to-the-minute techno ...

performing an astonishing number of operations. Five years prior there was no hospital in Rochester; in 1895, there were 762 ope ...

technology; the desire to hold elected office within medical societies; and the inclination to partner with others in the format ...

assisting in the elucidation of the problem at hand, and each dependent upon the other for support.”^16 Henry Plummer continued ...

were required to inculcate the young physicians and surgeons with the special techniques that were being developed by the increa ...

musculoskeletal problems, and he pioneered the surgical resection of a tuberculous hip infection in 1854. Dr. Gibney was surgeon ...

screws, and the treatment of hip fractures in the 1950s started to include partial hip replacement. If, as noted earlier, “speci ...

Johns Hopkins, and cardiothoracic surgeons embrace Minnesota, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Rochester, and Houston as seats of their ...

Allied forces had suffered grave casualties in the opening days of the Continental invasion, and in the coming weeks would strug ...

The affluent patient understood that surgery was not warranted, and a simple plan of care was outlined. Before departing, Dr. Ne ...

with its transistors, polymers, wires, biological materials, and modern alloys, was just as impossible. ...

SEVENTEEN Implant Revolution “The first industrial revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The second use ...

scapula (shoulder blade) is here with me, a 3-D representation levitating on the computer screen in front of me. Just a few year ...

of metal, plastic, synovial fluid (resembling apple juice), and fibrous tissue. All the foreign implants had to be removed, and ...

of the shoulder blade. We work together, imaging and imagining; Montreal and Denver suddenly don’t seem very far away. Simone cy ...