Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief
Latif Nasser: Modern ağrı giderimini bize veren adamın inanılmaz hikayesi
Latif Nasser is the director of research at Radiolab, where he has reported on such disparate topics as culture-bound illnesses, snowflake photography, sinking islands and 16th-century automata. Full bio
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felç edici, kronik bir acıya sebep oldu.
causing crippling, chronic pain.
for her to brush her teeth.
diş fırçalamak bile çok acı vericiydi.
the history of chronic pain.
history of pain collection
acının tarihiyle ilgili
a fantastic story --
harika bir hikaye.
millions of people from pain;
acıdan kurtaran bir adam;
of him, no Hollywood movies.
Johnny "Bull" Walker.
in the tiny town of Brookfield, New York.
ufak kasabasına sirk yeni gelmişti.
the wire-walkers, the tramp clowns --
akın akın izlemeye gidiyorlardı.
Johnny "Bull" Walker,
da izlemeye geliyorlardı,
iğneleyen kaslı kabadayıyı.
a voice rang out
in the live animal tent.
with the lion tamer.
inside the lion's mouth.
to the ground, motionless.
mouth-to-mouth, and saved his life.
a third-year medical student.
during summers to pay tuition,
to protect his persona.
a brute, a villain --
olması gerekiyordu
know his secret, either.
onun sırrını bilmiyordu.
an athlete, you were a dumb dodo."
aptal bir kuş olurdun." derlerdi.
on evenings and weekends.
profesyonelce güreştiğini söylemedi.
olduğunda bile
the Light Heavyweight Champion
lived these parallel lives.
bu paralel hayatları yaşadı.
but over the next five decades,
gelecek 50 yıl boyunca
kimliklerden yararlanarak
to think about pain.
bir yol oluşturdu.
so much so, that decades later,
öyle ki, onlarca yıl sonra
pain relief's founding father.
kurucu babası dedi.
medical school and married Emma,
at one of his matches years before.
St. Vincent's Hospital paid nothing.
St. Vincent Hastanesi para ödemiyordu.
he wrestled in big-ticket venues,
pahalı mekanlarda güreşiyordu.
Angelo Savoldi.
Angelo Savoidi gibi.
scratched a scar like Capone's
he had to wear a surgical mask to hide it.
ameliyat maskesi takmak zorunda kaldı.
with one eye so bruised,
iki kere ameliyata girdi,
his mangled cauliflower ears.
karnabahar kulaklarıydı.
on the sides of his head.
gibi hissettiğini söylüyordu.
into labor at his hospital.
doğum yapışını izledi.
ızdırap içindeydi.
out to the intern on duty
to ease her pain.
just three weeks on the job --
and started to turn blue.
pushed the intern out of the way,
and his unborn daughter.
hayatını kurtardı.
to devote his life to anesthesiology.
adamaya karar verdi.
the epidural, for delivering mothers.
to Madigan Army Medical Center,
army hospitals in America.
of all pain control there.
Bonica started noticing cases
ettikten sonra,
vakalar farketti.
he had learned.
a kind of alarm bell -- in a good way --
like a broken arm.
sinyal vermesi, kırılmış bir kol gibi.
of pain in that nonexistent leg.
would the alarm bell keep ringing?
was no evidence of an injury whatsoever,
at his hospital -- surgeons,
psikiyatristler, diğerleri.
their opinions on his patients.
group meetings over lunch.
going up against the patient's pain.
uzman takımı gibiydiler.
this way before.
şekilde odaklanmamıştı.
he could get his hands on,
of the word "pain."
on 17 and a half of them.
most frustrating part of being a patient.
can you come to there?
from the patient's perspective,
Bonica would talk about it.
those missing pages.
as the Bible of Pain.
nerve-block injections.
yeni tedaviler önerdi.
the Pain Clinic,
about his book
alarm bell for medicine.
çeşidi olmasıydı.
to take pain seriously
gündeminden uzak tuttu
in the mid-'70s.
acısı ortaya çıktı.
all over the world.
caught up to him.
for over 20 years,
dışında kaldı.
had left a mark on his body.
severe osteoarthritis.
he'd have 22 surgeries,
his arm, turn his neck.
değneklerine ihtiyacı vardı.
became his doctors.
had more nerve-block injections
he worked even more --
15-18 saaten fazla çalıştı.
than just his job,
form of relief.
he told a reporter at the time,
in the early 1980s,
eski bir öğrencisini
him to the Hyde Park area in Tampa.
götürmesi için aldı.
and pulled up to an old mansion,
hidden in the garage.
American circus royalty.
the Human Cannonball.
now, including Bonica,
Bonica da dahil.
what they said that day.
tam olarak
cannonballs reunited,
said in an oral history,
and wrestling deeply molded his life.
for him to ignore in others.
a whole new field,
medicine to acknowledge pain
deneyimi olduğunu iddia etti.
your current life,
görmek kolaydı.
in waiting rooms.
harcayan bir kadın.
that same way.
that my mom's pain holds.
where she worked.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Latif Nasser - Radio researcherLatif Nasser is the director of research at Radiolab, where he has reported on such disparate topics as culture-bound illnesses, snowflake photography, sinking islands and 16th-century automata.
Why you should listen
The history of science is "brimming with tales stranger than fiction," says Latif Nasser, who wrote his PhD dissertation on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962. A writer and researcher, Nasser is now the research director at Radiolab, a job that allows him to dive into archives, talk to interesting people and tell stories as a way to think about science and society.
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