The IDLE THOUGHTS OF A SURGICAL FELLOW
Subtitle: Being an Account of Experimental Surgical Studies, 1956-1966
Contributors: Foreword by Robert A. Good, Ph.D., M.D.
Publisher: Cultural and Educational Productions, Canada and U.S.A.
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Montreal, Quebec
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Surgery, Experimental -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Moynihan Prize Essay (UK) 1960; Surgical Treatment of Ischaemic Heart Disease; Coronary Circulation; Studies with Doppler Ultrasonic Blood Flowmeter - Telemetry System on Slowly Induced Closure of Coronary Arteries
Genres: Experimental Surgery; Physiological Basis of Surgical Cardiac Operations
Work titles: Physiological basis of Surgical Practice.
First sentence: Chapter 1. "A Touch O' The Green" : For Surgical Fellows as for new born babies there must be a point of conception in time, but whereas most parents know what nature has expressly designed their infants for, I was, I confess, as a Surgical Fellow never able to conjecture precisely what role Nature had designed for me. It all began I suppose when I went up originally to a University in the Midlands of England to read for a degree in Mining Engineering. To the consternation of my professor however my good resolve to investigate the bowels of the earth lasted for one day, that is to say, until my first visit to the Machine Shops area.
Description: An account of varied studies in the fields of experimental surgery, including the cardiovascular system, renal studies on critical closing pressure, blood flow telemetry studies in freely roaming animals, and general studies in which the author was interested, investigated over a ten year period, 1956 - 1966.
Notes: An Extensive bibliography of 551 references accompanies the section on the Coronary Circulation, Coronary Heart Disease, and Surgical Revascularization of the Heart.  Case Review of seven patients with a Pulmonary Artery - Left Atrium Shunt (Anastomosis) are presented in detail.Physiological surgical studies on pressure-flow relationships are presented. An account is given of efforts to construct a Radiation Free Room in order to  investigate  such tumors  as thyroid cancer.The dust jacket presents a commendation from one of the author's teachers, Professor J.D.H. Widdess, relating "his distinguished record in biology at his alma mater, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland".