Word: hospitaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two days before President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he lost his Attorney General-designate when old Thomas J. Walsh, on his second honeymoon, dropped-dead of a heart attack in his Pullman drawing room. Following year a throat disease forced Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin out of...
The doctor who first observed this patient was Neuropsychiatrist John Daniel O'Brien of Canton's Mercy Hospital. Dr. O'Brien kept track of her after the operation, reported her case last week in the American Medical Association's Journal.
For most laymen, the routine activities of the staff of a big hospital are shrouded in sanitary mystery. The stories concerning them are usually grim, sometimes Rabelaisian, seldom sensible. Last week the sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day...
Called in to assist in an accident case in which a patient's nose had been sliced off, she sterilized the nose. When the doctor prepared to sew it on he cried out: "My God! You've cooked it!" She was not punished for thrashing a head nurse...
She learned rapidly, finished her course with only a few interruptions, was soon head of a small hospital in the South. But amiable Southern disregard for her passionate cleanliness campaigns soon convinced her she could not manage the nurses. She became a private nurse, was mixed up in a ridiculous...