TowerTalk Volume 9 Issue Nr. 4, July 1987

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S JH Family Day
at Elitch's
Thursday, August 13, is the date of the Saint Joseph Hospital
Family Day at Elitch's so mark your calendars. Unlimited rides,
bingo, and lots of prizes will highlight the day. This year - for
the first time - all prizes will be for employees only.
Tickets are $5 for unlimited rides or $2 for gate admission only.
Get your tickets in the Towerteria at the following times:
Thursday, August 6
6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
Friday, August 7
Monday, August 10
Tuesday, August 11
Wednesday, August 12
7:30 to 9 a.m.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Greenwood Athletic
Club, HealthMark Open
The Greenwood Athletic Club and HealthMark Clinic opened their doors
Wednesday, July 1, at the Club's facility at Orchard Road and Quebec St.
Greenwood Athletic Club is a joint venture of Maricor, the Hospital's for-
profit affiliate, and the John Madden Company.
Dr. Robert Gleser, President of HealthMark, will manage the preventive
health clinic at the club. Clinic services include comprehensive medical
evaluation, programs on nutrition, exercise and stress management, sports
medicine, physical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation.
With its opening, the Greenwood Athletic Club becomes Denver's premier
health club facility with complete indoor and outdoor exercise facilities on
an 11-acre fitness park. The club has an eight-lane, 25-meter swimming
pool, a college court gymnasium, indoor running track, comprehensive
weight training center, racquetball and squash courts, a cardiovascular
training area with a full range of computerized equipment and two exercise
studios.
Outdoor fitness facilities include four tennis courts, a jogging trail,
volleyball court and a multi-acre fitness park with designed land and
waterscaping.
Saint Joseph Hospital and HealthMark have recently associated to provide
preventive medicine and related services at both the Greenwood site and
HealthMark's downtown location at the Brown Palace. The Hospital's
Medical Staff provided a Physicians' Advisory Committee to facilitate the
development of Greenwood Clinic*
Book Rack
This month the books we're featuring
from the Health Reach Library are
concerned with knowing more about
the human body and how it functions.
Perchance to Dream � A Patient's
Guide to Anesthesia is by Robert C.
Brown, M.D., and gives us an inside
look at the role of the anesthesiologist.
"Presumably," Brown says, "the
patient thinks that after an intra-
venous injection of Pentothal the
anesthesiologist can walk away___
The lack of information on the part
of patients who have already been
anesthetized is rather startling."
In the first chapter of this fas-
cinating book we learn that,
"survival itself is closely linked to
the skill of the person administer-
ing anesthesia."
This book gives its readers an idea
of what happens to the body and the
nervous system during surgery. Dr.
Brown describes an operation from
the time a patient is put to sleep
to the time the patient regains
consciousness, which testifies to
the anesthesiologist's skill and art.
Surely this book is must reading
for anyone contemplating surgery or
anyone who is simply curious about
the latest medical techniques.
The Amazing Brain by Robert
Orstein is an equally fascinating
book. A random selection from the
book reads, "When the temporal lobe
is electrically stimulated, some
people report the feeling of being in
two places at once: The memory of
an event and the present coexist in
the person's consciousness. Although
fully conscious and aware of the
operation going on, a person might
suddenly feel she is also in a kitchen,
30 or 40 years before: the sound and
smells seem real."
The human brain seems almost
overwhelming in its complexity, but
the author supplies exceptionally
clear diagrams and text.
There is a reminder: "To follow the
progress of the human brain, one
must remember that it is designed
primarily to run the human body!
Mary Bell
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