Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift of life is never meant to be returned, especially not wrapped in plastic, packed in ice and enclosed in a small Igloo cooler. But that is precisely the transaction that occurred last week at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, where doctors took the heart of a 22-year-old who died following a car crash and sewed it inside the body of her father...
...Sometimes the serious and hilarious are combined. Asked by an embarrassed sixth-grade girl to explain what condoms are for, an elderly volunteer answered delicately, "It's something a man wears to protect a lady." Replied the girl: "From what?" On another occasion a little girl asked volunteer Dorie Beaumont, "What if your mom meets your dad at a bar, has drinks and comes home and beats you up?" Beaumont recalls, "She seemed so calm. I was trying to stay calm. Suddenly she yelled, 'Here she comes!' I heard this awful scream, and the phone slammed down...
...Though Beaumont never had a chance to get that child's full name and number, cases of suspected abuse or neglect are usually reported to county child- protection services. In other instances where a child needs help, phone counselors may simply stay on the line until a problem is resolved. Bruce Nelson, the hospital's quietly intense community services director, who often works the phones himself, remembers an eight-year-old girl racked with chills and fever who said she had been vomiting all day: "She was crying all the time we talked to her." He called a nurse...