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- They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital.
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Jan 21, 2008 · In order to secure a representative list of books from this period, we selected commonly known medical and neurological books in English, German, French and Latin language from two standard books, Garrison's history of neurology (McHenry, 1969) and the ‘Diseases of the nervous system’ section in Morton's medical bibliography (Norman, 1991 ...
- Peter J. Koehler, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
- 2008
Characters. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student, the protagonist who single- mindedly jeopardizes her career, life and family's lives in order to explain why patients at Boston...
May 1, 2014 · There is a description of how different categories of coma have been defined, such as persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and brain death. The tools of prognostication are described. The chapter also discusses the emergence of textbooks on coma. Keywords: History, animal experiments, neurologic examination, brainstem ...
Jan 10, 2011 · Medically induced comas are only used when other options are lacking. In the case of traumatic brain injury—such as the bullet wound sustained by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday's ...
We consulted medical texts published between 1640 and 1960. Subject indexes and tables of contents of textbooks were reviewed for the words coma, (loss of) consciousness, stupor and somnolence. Chapters on apoplexy were reviewed for descriptions of impaired consciousness. We found information on terminology, classification, causes, observation ...
May 2, 2024 · Nick LaRock was going to pull through. Physically, at least. A thirty-three-year-old high-school history teacher, LaRock had been discovered by his girlfriend sprawled out on the floor of his Manhattan apartment late one Sunday evening, moaning incomprehensibly. Rushed by ambulance to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia’s ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia.
