I'd like to begin by saying Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there! My hope is that you are able to spend some quality time with your family or doing something just for yourself. Maybe you will hit the golf course, head out on the boat, or simply take some time to relax and do nothing! It is not often these days that we stop and just do nothing. Summertime is a great reminder to slow down and enjoy the long days of sunshine and all the simple pleasures that you associate with a summer day! Before you now it, it will be Labor Day and in a blink of an eye, summer will have escaped. So, enjoy!
"National News" strives to reach all of our customers each month and in this issue we reach out to anesthesiologists in "Calling All Doctors". For something that all of us can relate to, be certain to read "Lessons From a Dandelion", a great reminder of how to face life with a smile! Also in this issue, we wrap up the 4th and final installment of "Who Really Discovered Anesthesia". There is also a new "celebrity" in our midst, so do not miss "Is She the Next Time Magazine Person of The Year?" featuring our own Kristine Heffelbower!
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Stephen Read, President
National Anesthesia Services, Inc.

THE CONTROVERSY
Never before or since has a medical discovery generated such heated debate and bitterness. By 1849 the controversy over who discovered anesthesia had become such a public issue that the U.S. Congress was called on to resolve the matter. However, even Congress became dead-locked over the issue. The controversy centers on the definition of discovery. Is discovery of a medical process simply the mental conceptualization of the process, or does it also require a practical application of the process? And does a medical discoverer have to publicize and expose his invention to the medical profession and the world in order to be awarded credit?

PRO LONG

Long supporters point to one simple fact when they back his claim that he was the discoverer of anesthesia. That fact is that on Mar. 30, 1842--before any other claimant--he performed the first surgical operation utilizing anesthesia--in this case, sulfuric ether.

PRO WELLS

Wells advocates, along with those of Jackson and Morton, hold that a discovery is not a discovery if it is not presented to the world. Not until three years after Morton's demonstration in Boston, and after ether had been accepted into general practice, did Long reveal that he had discovered anesthesia. If Long had not heard about the anesthesia debate in Congress in 1849, Wells supporters contend, he never would have published his claims, and knowledge of his "ether frolic" experiments would have died with him.
Wells partisans say that Wells conducted the first operations using anesthesia which led to the general acceptance and use of anesthesia. Wells's work gave medical exposure to anesthesia even if his January, 1845, demonstration was a failure. In fact, Morton's demonstrations were merely a continuation of Wells's experiments and a vindication of his concepts. Wells discovered and presented anesthesia to the world, while Morton gave the first practical demonstration of Wells's work.

PRO JACKSON

The Jackson partisans assert that Jackson, with ether, discovered anesthesia, and that Morton was merely Jackson's assistant in publicly demonstrating the substance.

PRO MORTON

Morton partisans deny that Morton was carrying on the work of either Wells or Jackson, and claim instead that he did his own independent research. Among the many specialists he interviewed was Jackson, who mentioned that ether had been used as a localized painkiller. Morton took these ideas and suggestions from various sources and synthesized them, thus discovering and publicly demonstrating anesthesia to the world.
Morton supporters have vented their full wrath on Jackson. They assert that he was merely a glory- seeker who tried to take credit for the accomplishments of everyone he came into contact with. They point out that, before the anesthesia controversy, Jackson contended that he had invented the telegraph because he had once proposed the concept during a discussion of electricity with Samuel Morse. In actuality, Jackson was just a chemist who gave Morton technical advice. Morton supporters deny the claim that he was Jackson's assistant by pointing to the fact that Jackson advised against and refused to be associated with Morton's Massachusetts General demonstration because it was, in Jackson's words, "too dangerous." Only after Morton had been acknowledged as anesthesia's discoverer did the other claimants publish their results and their challenges. Morton advocates maintain that Morton conceptualized, implemented, demonstrated, and presented anesthesia to the world.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is that you can look at that person and honestly say that you did your best.

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John McKay

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I recall as a young child bringing bouquets of brilliant yellow flowers to my mother. It didn't matter that the stems felt sticky or that both my parents cursed the presence of these flowers in the lawn. I thought they were beautiful!
And there were so many of them! We spent hours picking the flowers and then popping the blossoms off with a snap of our fingers. But the supply of dandelions never ran out. My father or brothers would chop off all the heads with the lawn mower at least once a week, but that didn't stop these hardy wonders.
And for those flowers that escaped the honor of being hand-delivered to my mother or the sharp blades of the lawn mower, there was another level of existence.
The soft, round puffs of a dandelion gone to seed caused endless giggles and squeals of delight as we unwittingly spread this flower across the yard.
As I worked in my garden last week, pulling unwanted weeds out of the space that would become a haven for tomatoes, corn, peas and sunflowers, I again marveled at the flower that some call a weed. And I thought, "If only I had the staying power of a dandelion."
If only I could stretch my roots so deep and straight that something tugging on my stem couldn't separate me completely from the source that feeds me life. If only I could come back to face the world with a bright, sunshiny face after someone has run me over with a lawnmower or worse, purposely attacks me in an attempt to destroy me. If only my foliage was a nutritious source of vitamins that help others grow. If only I could spread love and encouragement as freely and fully as this flower spreads seeds of itself.
The lawns at my parents' homes are now beautiful green blankets. The only patches of color come from well-placed, well-controlled flowerbeds. Chemicals have managed to kill what human persistence couldn't.
I hope you and I can be different, I hope that we can stretch our roots deep enough that the strongest poison can't reach our souls. I hope that we can overcome the poisons of anger, fear, hate, criticism and competitiveness. I hope that we can see flowers in a world that sees weeds.

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By Donna Doyon

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