Open Heart (61 page)

impact on neurology,
230
–
31

limitations,
21
,
101
,
133
,
244

limited impact on mortality rate,
109
,
111
–
12
,
119
,
294

media hype,
27
,
38
,
45
,
114
–
15
,
133

as a modern miracle,
85
,
88

need for proper training,
37
–
38
,
133

needless and costly overuse,
37
,
101
,
146
,
162
–
63
,
294

short timeframe for obsolescence,
37
–
38

trends in,
25
–
26
,
94
–
95

vs. listening to the patient,
38
,
167
–
68
,
202
–
3
,
243
–
44
,
248
,
291

vs. “science,”
85
,
88
,
95

Thomas, Lewis,
256

Thorsen, Dr. Gerd-Ragna Bloch,
177
,
178

Thursday Night Cardiac Clinic,
243

thyroid scan,
77

thyroxine,
86

Time Special Issue: The Frontiers of Medicine
,
27

Time to Heal
(Ludmerer),
168
–
69

tobacco.
See
smoking

Transforming Madness
(Neugeboren),
53
,
66
,
82
,
300

trauma, 153.
See also
post-traumatic stress disorder

traumatic injury to the brain,
105
,
220
–
23

trust

adherence to medications and,
41
,
153
–
54
,
180

lack of continuity and time to develop.
See
managed care

mind-body relationship and,
154
,
265

qualities that engender,
146
–
47
, 153.
See also
listening to the patient

role in psychotherapy,
202

role in recovery,
153
–
54

tuberculosis

economic aspects of vaccinations,
285
–
86

integration with HIV prevention and treatment,
283

as major cause of death, 1800s-early 1900s,
91

mortality rate decline, late 1900s,
109

reemergence,
102

streptomycin treatment,
268
,
270

treatment curriculum developed by Friedland,
192

United Nations program,
286

typhoid,
109

United Nations,
286

United States

average health spending annually,
286

dismal response to international epidemics,
286

health-care system.
See
managed care

Medicare,
163

mortality rates.
See
mortality

universal health care,
166
,
175
,
289

University of Massachusetts

basketball games,
13
–
14
,
17
,
80
,
120

teaching position (as professor and writer in residence),
13
,
57
,
82

vaccinations

economic aspects,
285
–
86

effects on mortality rate,
109
–
10

immune system and,
256

for polio,
88
–
89

vasodilators,
70

Vasotec,
70

ventricular assist devices,
94
–
95

Viagra,
97
,
99
,
137
,
150

viral infection.
See also
HIV

antiretroviral treatment,
40
–
41
,
255
,
282
–
83

diagnosis of possible,
8
,
70
,
71
,
247

ebola,
255

heart disease symptoms,
248

natural selection and,
255

vitamin E,
138
,
140
,
143
,
145

Waksman, Selman,
270

weight

as risk factor for cancer,
117

as risk factor for heart disease,
30
,
249

as risk factor for type 2 diabetes,
106

white blood cells,
248

whooping cough,
94
,
109
–
10

Whynott, Doug and Kathy,
66
,
81

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
(Nesse and Williams),
271

Wise, Dr. Carl,
77

women

communication style in relationships, vs. men,
125

hormone replacement therapy,
295

mammograms,
118
,
295

menopause and heart disease,
129
–
30

mortality rate for breast cancer,
28

mortality rate for heart disease,
28
–
29

World Health Organization (WHO),
286

World Trade Center,
151
,
152
,
285
,
298

writing career of the author

Big Man
,
77
,
213
–
14

book on Moe Armstrong,
17

book tour,
124

daily routines,
18
,
22

first weeks after surgery,
17
,
121

Imagining Robert
,
19
,
72
,
244

inspiration for this book,
18
–
19

Nightline
interview,
17
,
51

prior to surgery,
47

psychological aspects,
18
–
19

Transforming Madness
,
53
,
66
,
82
,
300

visualization of,
12

x-rays,
230

Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)

AIDS research,
1
,
41

author's decision to go to,
73
,
79

trust in,
10
–
11
,
42
,
80

Yarnell, Barbara,
217

Yarnell, Phil

on Arthur Rudy,
219
–
20

author going on rounds with,
2
,
215
–
16
,
220
–
21

childhood and adolescence,
10
,
12
–
13
,
228
–
29

as a consultant,
10
,
136
–
37
,
245

education,
12
,
215
,
227
–
28

family,
227
,
228
,
234

friendship with the author: during adolescence,
12
–
13
; after author's surgery,
128
,
202
; importance of,
2
,
13
,
46
–
47
,
124
–
27
,
220
; prior to author's surgery,
1
,
10
,
12
,
47
,
79
,
81

marriages,
214
,
220

medical responsibilities,
2
,
10
,
161
–
62
,
215
–
16
,
225
–
26
,
297

motivation to be a neurologist,
99
–
100
,
226
,
232
,
233
–
34
,
267

nickname,
227

office decor,
217
–
18
,
223
,
296

personality,
46
,
215

ranch in Kiowa, Colorado,
10

sculptures by,
218

views: on Arthur Rudy,
219
–
20
; on death of a young woman,
221
–
25
; on drug/technology marketing,
97
,
133
; on history of neurology,
229
–
31
; on Jerry Friedland,
46
,
281
; on managed health care,
232
–
33

Zocor,
29
,
96
,
260

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Some of the stories in this volume originally appeared in the NEW AMERICAN REVIEW, the QUARTERLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, EVERGREEN REVIEW, PLAYBOY, ESQUIRE, CAVALIER, and OLYMPIA.

Copyright © 2003 by Jay Neugeboren

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