HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-10-30, Page 7Medical Diagnosis
—How Accurate?
Do victims of disease some-
times go about their day-to-day
lives with medical assurance that
they are in the pink of health?
It's possible,
So warned two specialists
from Memorial Cancer Center
in New York recently Their
target: The widespread use, by
inadequately trained physicians,
of fluoroscopy as the sole method
of X-ray examination
Writing in the New England
Journal of Medicine, Drs Robert.
S. Sherman and William G.
Gahan said: "fluoroscopy as a
detection or screening device is
inaccurate and inferior by com-
parison with X-ray film cover
age," It may give patients "a
false sense of security", since
it is possible "for an early can-
cer to be hissed, a persistent
pneumonia to be described as
completelycleared, a tubercu-
losis to be overlooked, or frac-
tures to be called healed."
Even under the skilled obser-
vation of a sure -eyed radiologist.
the fleeting view of a patient
through a fluoroscope is far less
reliable than a picture perma-
nently recorded by X-ray film.
Large internal masses may show
up on the fluorescent screen, but
the delicate details and contrasts
—so necessary for accurate diag-
nosis—may go unnoticed or be
lost in blots and blurs Fluor
oscopy, furthermore, leaves no,
record for future reference.
What particularly bothers Dr
Sherman, a radiologist with 21
years' X-ray experience, and Dr
Cahan, a chest surgeon, is the
fact that thousands of doctors
(notably general practitioners)
use routine fluoroscopy as the
sole method of X-ray examina-
tion. And, importantly, 55 per
cent of all these fluorscopic ex-
aminations are done by non-
radiologists -30 per cent by GP's
and the remaining 25 per cent
by internists, pediatricians, and
Other inexperienced people.
Drs. • Sherman and Cahan con-
ceded fluoroscopy may be of
minor value in studying the
course of an already diagnosed
disease and the result of treat-
ment ("It lends an air of au-
thority to the examination the
patient has received"), But even
Ile -,,,e, --when operated by experts, fluor-
oscopes can miss important
flaws, and the patient may be
"under -diagnosed", the physi-
cians wrote. "For example, a
lung lesion 3 millimeters in di-
ameter is often detected by X-
ray film, whereas a similar lung
lesion must be five to ten times
that size before it is regularly
visible by fluoroscope, even un-
der ideal conditions."
Since a fluoroscope screening
costs less than X-ray and is
quicker and more convenient
than corresponding film cover-
age, many patients insist on it as
part of their routine checkups.
The doctors assert, however, that
"any patient informed of the
facts would willingly exchange
a slight additional charge or
"""small inconvenience for the best
examination—one upon which his
health and future can depend."
Drs. Sherman and Calan urg-
ed X-ray equipment manufac-
turers to improve the fluoros-
cope machines by amplifying the
images on the screen, and cut-
ting down on the amount of
radiation required. But, they
predicted, "the time will come
when the use of the fluoroscope
alone, because of its basic un-
soundness as a method of diag-
nosis, will enter the ranks of
outmoded medical practice."
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"Perfect Murder"
Made H r;n Hero
Chubby-faeed Carl Wanderer
often mixed his left hand up
with his right. His schoolteacher
warned him: "Unless you can
distinguish one from the other
you'll get into trouble one day."
Carl found the defect a handi-
cap at work. At his wedding
breakfast he drank a toast W
his bride holding the glass in
the wrong hand. It was like a
portent of things to come for the
lnarriage was not a happy one
and he became bitter and dis-
illusioned.
In his mind grew the seeds
of murder. And the more he
thought about his plan the more
he convinced himself that 11e had
nut only solved the problem of
the perfect murder but that he
would become a public hero in
the process.
So -38 years ago Iast month—
he put his plan into operation.
First he stopped a tramp in
the street and asked him if he
wanted a job. The man said he
did and Wanderer told him to
call at his house the following
evening at nine o'clock,
The tramp arrived on time. As
he did so Wanderer and his wife
drew up in a car. Carl helped
his wife out on to the deserted
pavement and as he did so the
hobo moved forward to greet
him.
Wanderer spun round and
calmly fired three bullets at
the man. As the tramp slumped,
dying, to the pavement, Carl took
another gun from his coat and
shot his wife dead.
Wiping his prints off the sec-
ond gun, he placed it in the
tramp's hand. Then he hurriedly
summoned the police.
Weeping bitterly he told de-
tectives that the tramp had held
him and his wife up as they got
out of their car. There had been
a struggle in which the tramp.
shot his wife — and he had shot
the killer in self-defence.
He told his story well. Within
hours the Press of Chicago had
boosted him into a hero. And
senior detectives turned the in-
quiries which seemed to be
a mere routine — over to a
rookie policeman.
The man was young but very
keen. And to practise some of
the text -book theories he made
a check on the guns.
He was astonished to find the
gun found in the tramp's grasp
was registered in Wanderer's
name. But the gun which Carl
had shot the hobo with was un-
registered. After hours of ques-
tioning Carl Wanderer broke
down.
His error of mixing up the
weapons was clue to his !liability
to recognize right from left in
the heat of the killing. It also
sent him to the electric chair.
# 5 5
Warren Lincoln was well ac-
quainted with murder. As a
criminal lawyer he had defend-
ed and prosecuted many a killer.
And he knew it was usually a
small slip that sent a man to thc.
execution shed,
He was determined he would
not make such a slip when be
set out to kill his wife and
brother-in-law. The pair bullied
him. Worse, they trampled over
his flower garden which, out-
side the court roam in Aurora,
Illinois, was his first love.
His plans were laid with legal
logic, First he told his close
friends he had discovered his
wife had a secret lover in an-
other city. To strengthen this,
he produced a love letter. He
had faked it. And he said he
held other love letters in which
the man urged his wife to elope
with him.
Sympathy swelled for the in-
offensive Lawyer, One of his
friends even said it would be
a good thing if Mrs. Lincoln met
with a sticky end!
She did — on a night made for
perfect murder. And so did her
brother. They died with a high
wind howling outside the charnel
house that Warren's home had
become. Rain clouds scudded
overhead as Lincoln shot the
couple.
With commendable skill he
dismembered the bodies and
burnt them in the garden furn-
ace. He then buried the re-
mains in lime beneath the flower
beds.
Next day Lincoln informed his
friends that his wife had gone
tu her lover and that her brother
had gone with her.
He knew that the police
would eventually ask questions.
Experience had taught him that
police always ask questions when
people suddenly disappear.
Months passed. Then came the
questions. Polite ones, routine
one. And though Lincoln was
quite confident, he must have
overdone his replies. For the
r olice started to make more in-
tensive inquiries. The lawyer
was not worried. He knew that
lime destroyed evidence
Then one horning the police
arrived to dig up his garden.
They were very polite - about it.
hut also very insistent — and
thorough.
And imagine Lincoln's horror
and dismay when they dug up
the remains of the two bodies.
For then — too late — he
realised he had made the mis-
take of using slaked Iime instead
of quick lime. And slaked lime
THREE -WHEELED COMFORT—One way to eliminate cold rain down the necks of its officers is
being considered by the St. Louis police 'traffic division. Low operating cost and shelter for
the bluecoais are big reasons why the department may replace their motorcycles with scoot-
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corpses. , ,F
With equal care and specializ-
ed knowledge, Dr. Robert Bu-
chanan of Greenwich Village;
New York, planned the perfect
murder of his wealthy and un-
wanted wife. He used poison.
But a fellow doctor who examin-
ed the body affirmed that Mrs.
Buchanan had died from normal
heart failure.
The burial and the will pro-
bate went through smoothly. In
due time the doctor fitted him-
self out with a new wardrobe—
and a new girl friend. He had
eonunitted the perfect murder.
But he began to worry about
it. It had been too perfect, too
successful, There must have
been a slip somewhere. The
doubts grew in his mind. Soon
he was convinced the police
were wise to him and were bid-
ing their time.
He began to suspect every-
body. He thought his neighbors
were spying on him. He became
a nervous wreck. He took to
visiting the grave almost daily
to check the soil, believing that
the police had secretly exhumed
his wife.
Finally the strain became too
much. He stormed into the po-
lice department, all cunning
gone, ,and demanded to know
why they persecuted him and
shadowed him.
"My wife died a natural death
leave me alone!" he ranted.
The police were surprised —
end suspicious. They had not
followed Buchanan. But after
they had placated him they
started shadowing the doctor.
For weeks they trailed him.
Then they brought him in for
questioning. And while this was
going on Mrs. Buchanan's body
was exhumed. Traces of poison
were found. The doctor broke
down and confessed.
He had made no mistake in
the execution of the crime. It
had been the perfect murder..
It was his own conscience and
lack of nerve that sent him to
his death,
Tom's Birthplace
One of the well-known Eastern
newspapers — we charitably do
not say which one it was —
carried a two -column headline:
'Birthplace Of Tom Sawyer'
Scores High With Tourists
Imagine our astonishment when
the dateline turned out to be
Hartford, Conn., and the article
in reality a descriptive piece
about "a large gabled brick
house on residential Farmington
Avenue" in which Mark Twain
achieved his most notable liter-
ary production." Now we would
not for a moment depreciate the
importance of the house Where
Samuel L. Clemens performed
the mechanical labor of writing
out the stories of Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn. It is a
cultural montunent we hope tu
see preserved.
But the birthplace of Tom
Sawyer? Not in a thousand times
ten thousand years. That great-
est of all great American boys
was not even born at Hannibal,
although he and Huck were boys
together there and climbed
through the tall grass of Cardiff
Hill to watch the steamboats
come around the bend. There
they played in winter and sum-
mer and explored the cave and
paddled Out to the island to
smoke cornsilk and watch the
long-legged cranes fly overhead
and to plan the wondrous things
they were going to do. But Tom
Sawyer was not born there.
Go west from Hannibal on
Highway 24 to Monroe City.
Drop down south on the road to
Paris, . in Monroe county, but
,turn off on 107 beyond Indian
Creek and before you get to
Stoutsvilie. Go about four miles.
You are at Florida—Florida, Mo.,
population 200. There onthe
north fork of Salt Creek, little
Sam Clemens- was born, Nov. 30,
1835. And se was Tom Sawyer.
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