Word: bedpan
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...many a hospital patient, the worst ordeal of all is the indignity and discomfort of the bedpan. Nonetheless, doctors and nurses for years have stubbornly insisted on its use by the bedridden. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Manhattan Doctors Joseph Benton, Henry Brown and Howard Rusk report the results of a careful observation at Bellevue Hospital that may foreshadow the bedpan...
...their experiment, the doctors measured the relative amounts of oxygen consumed (and hence energy expended) by 24 patients (15 of them suffering from heart trouble) in alternate use of bedpans and bedside commodes. Their findings: "In all patients . . . there was a consistently greater oxygen consumption ... on the bedpan than on the commode...
...week's end Mrs. Tucker seemed to be fairly on the mend. What pleased the doctors most: she was calling for the bedpan at regular intervals...
...book and toss it away. Some place midway between the middle and the last third, Miss Howe begins to search for a soul for Dorothea. She finds it for her--you've guessed it--not in Cambridge, but Out West, among the peepul. Not until Dorothea joins the bedpan brigade in a Boston hospital and follows it up with a train trip (tourist class) to Idaho, does she discover Life...
...paradoxical situation of a "Hahvvahd" man writing the story of a typical draftee resulted from both Stein and Brown's going through the same process of learning and griping themselves. The professional cartoonist served as a bedpan changer in a hospital and the poet-writer as an Army engineer...