Crying with patients ethic highlighted at surgeons congress
At the American College of Surgeons 61st clinical congress in San Francisco Dr William Hobbins urged physicians not to lose the capacity to cry with dying patients saying you cannot be cold at the bedside. Panelists warned against impersonal medicine and stressed the physician as comforter and friend even as new drugs and trials require human research.
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San Francisco
UPI
William Hobbins
Madison
Wis
American College of Surgeons
William A. Altemeier
Cincinnati
Ohio
Altemeier
Hobbins
Respirator switched off before victim dies at Fresno hospital
A physician turned off a life sustaining respirator before Sammy Uribes died at Valley Medical Center after brain death following a surgical error in August. The hospital fired the anesthetist and admitted the mistake contributed to the death. Parents say they discussed earlier—no permission to remove life support was given. Burglars stole $520 in stereo equipment from Curt Huderson’s apartment on Roswell Avenue.
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Fresno
Valley Medical Center
Michael Freeman
Sammy Uribes
Parker
Uribes
George Carter
Pete Uribes
Curt Huderson
Roswell Ave
Triple test uncovers undetected breast cancers study says
A Jefferson Medical College surgeon reports an 18 month study of 13,907 Philadelphia area women using thermography, mammography, and physical exams found 106 cancers. Forty eight had no lump or symptoms, with 7.6 cancers per 1000 screened and earlier detection than exam alone.
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San Francisco
Gordon Schwartz
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Congress of the American College of Surgeons
Diagnostic Center
Jefferson
Schwartz
Metal coils monitor heart after open heart surgery
Tiny metal coils about a sixteenth of an inch long with needle-size diameters are implanted in the heart as a new monitoring technique after open heart surgery. Developed by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers, the needles are placed at strategic points in the heart muscle. Dr. Edward B. Stinson reported at the Clinical Congress.
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San Francisco
Stanford University School of Medicine
Edward B. Stinson
American College of Surgeons
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