Word: hauberg
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...great a strain on their other children. A few even went so far as to say that distribution of the drug had been the government's fault; therefore it was also the government's responsibility to provide for the children. Then, last year, Dr. Gustav Hauberg, an energetic orthopedist from the state of Lower Saxony, produced a comprehensive plan for taking care of thalidomide babies. Today that plan is a working reality, and throughout Germany, despair for the thalidomide victims has given way to understanding and hope...
...Lepers. An experienced medical administrator, Dr. Hauberg swiftly disposed of mountains of tangled red tape as he converted a former male TB ward on the outskirts of Hanover into Abteilung...
...Hauberg and his colleagues also reject the theory that it is best not to fit children with artificial limbs until after the period of their most rapid growth is over. "Our little patient," says Dr. Hauberg, "grows up with his prosthesis, so that he feels as if it were a part of him." On the other hand, operations to remove seemingly functionless protrusions of tissue are avoided as long as possible, since most contain muscles that may be invaluable in manipulating artificial limbs...
...weeks of treatment, the mother also becomes a resident of the clinic, wearing the same style blue coat that is worn by the 30 specialized .uses and therapists. The children learn to identify their mothers in the same category as the clinic staff, and the parent provides what Dr. Hauberg calls "nest warmth." She becomes an ob ject of treatment herself, sitting in on group psychotherapy sessions to talk over her guilt and anxieties with other mothers...
Because the thalidomide babies have above average intelligence, Dr. Hauberg and his colleagues are already theorizing about "some mysterious process of natural compensation." Parents, too, are invariably impressed by the progress of their children. Last week one mother watched proudly as her two-year-old son Kurt, who has only tiny arm stumps and whose feet are attached to his buttocks, reached for a ball with his new, artificial arm. "He's never done this before," she marveled. In another room, a four-year-old boy earnestly practiced opening and closing belt buckles. "At first we thought everything...