Word: carmon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week a grave loss, long foreseen but hardly realized, befalls the University of Chicago's Lying-in Hospital: Birthroom Supervisor Mabel C. Carmon, 68, most famed obstetrical nurse in the U.S., is going to retire. In her 44 years as a birthroom supervisor, Nurse Carmon has taught obstetrics to 6,864 student nurses, has heard the first indignant cries of 104,988 babies...
Enlightened Interns. Mabel Carmon has been variously described as tolerant, courageous, fairminded, flexible, modest, sweet and shy, a machine, a perfectionist, an autocrat. Some staff members would have liked to boot her out the window when they came in as young interns, but they learned to respect her and admire...
...taught that a woman is ready to give birth when the cervix has dilated to ten centimeters, and should be moved to the delivery room when dilation has reached nine centimeters. Some shiny new interns at Lying-in, depending on this rule-of-thumb, have had arguments with Nurse Carmon over the proper time to move a mother. In every case that Lying-in can remember, Carmon was right. Said one chastened doctor: "If my patient had dilated to only two centimeters and Carmon said she ought to go to delivery, I'd take her there...