| Show Brady rady Says I Credit Advances of Medicine I J to To Men lien Not Institutions Institutions' Jy William Brady MI 11 rn 1 t s ser surgeon has long hesitated er certain areas of the body I I fo for I chest and skull cavity rte le Within It st 10 m mions y years p ions with with- ese ese IE areas 1 IF j become in in- tt com com- removal of f J v of a lung h. h entire lung dis- dis Ihas has now I gassed the Ir Dr Brady Brad I mental stage and is an ac- ac 1 procedure when the ne- ne arises anses fical cal ical operations upon the theand theand and the great reat vessels ls conto con con- con I it to it have marked a dra- dra matic malic advance ance in the attack on diseases of these structures Blue baby surgery involving the surgical surgical surgical cal joining of large blood vessels adjacent to the heart has been perfected to the point where normal normal normal nor nor- mal or normal near-normal life is now I possible for the victims previously i doomed to a short and precarious precarious i ie e existence I IThe i The aorta Is the main mam stem or large artery arter issuing from the heart the branches and d divisions visions of which carry arterial or oxygenated oxygenated oxygenated oxy oxy- blood to all of the tissues of the body Occa Occasionally as the result of disease o or or congenital defect defect de de- the aorta norta becomes constricted 1 or narrowed to the point where appreciable obstruction to the flow of arterial blood from the heart d develops In this condition the tissues of the body above the level le of the constriction become overly suffused suffused suf sur- fused with th blood whereas the tissues tissues tissues sues below the constriction are arc poorly supplied In the upper areas the blood pressure is increased and in the lower areas it is de de- creased Nature in her efforts to compensate for the abnormality creates through dilatation o of the blood vessels vessel and the creation of new ones a a collateral circulation circulation circulation tion to rece receive c and contain the blood which is unable to find sufficient sufficient suf suf- egress I Up until the time that surgery was devised de to relieve this condition condition condi condi- 1 tion lion the patient faced a very uncertain uncertain uncertain un un- certain and short future Today although the operation is still regarded re regarded re- re as heroic and depending depending depend depend- ing upon circumstances the hazard hazard haz haz- ard anI may be very great it is possible to extend the outlook for forlie life lie from rom a matter of months to 30 possibly 50 years or more Basically the operation consi consists in ui merely cutting out the narrowed narrowed narrowed nar nar- rowed portion of the aorta and sewing the cut ends together But Butin Butin Butin in that simple statement there is nothing to indicate the sweat and tears the hours of strain the steel-nerved steel precision split-second split decisions and flawless team work essential to the success of the procedure Excludes Research Nor does the statement embrace the years o of intensive study research re research research re- re search practice on experimental animals and exhaustive considerations considerations considerations involving not alone surgery but everything else included such as anesthesia diagnosis preoperative tive and postoperative m manage management manage manage- nage- nage ment all ment-all all essential to success I mention on this to emphasize again the fact that men and not institutions practice medicine and surgery Men make an tion An institution cannot make a man Without men the most glittering clinic is but an assortment assortment as- as of bare walls The man who helps to establish the reputation reputation reputation tation of a clinic may be there today and elsewhere tomorrow When conflict arises between doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors and institutions the publics public's best interest lies on the side of the doctors I IThe The miraculous advances of medicine and surgery the great extension of life expectancy the lowering of mortality rates and the obliteration near-obliteration of contagious i diseases are the accomplishments of men Their heroic performances performances perform perform- ances of today herald the development development devel devel- of routine performances I tomorrow Questions and Answers Why hy Ha have Headache Have been subject to headaches for lor some sonic time lime Doctors say it is due to nervous stomach Mrs Irs T. 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