A GREAT SOURCE OF STORIES I
‘ve mentioned before that Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story by Paul Aurandt and his sequel More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story are excellent sources of dramatic illustrative stories. You’ve probably heard some of them on his radio show of the same name on ABC network. One of my favorites is the story of Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane, chief surgeon of the Kane Summit Hospital in New York. He was some 60 years of age and had been a surgeon for almost four decades. He was particularly fascinated by the possibility of the use of local anesthetics in areas that had always used a general anesthetic. He was concerned about the dangers, of what he considered the overuse of general anesthesia. He wanted to find an appendectomy candidate who would be willing to do it with a local only. As Dr. Kane had performed nearly 4000 such operations he was confident this would be…
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