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Ever since blond, balding Dr. Willard Ellsworth finished his internship, he has been one of the house physicians at Manhattan's 2,200-room, jampacked Hotel Pennsylvania, right across from the Pennsylvania station. Trains leave the station for the doctor's native Missouri, but he and his hillbilly accent stick tight to the hotel. Dr. Ellsworth once tried general practice for six months in Colorado. He did not like it because he had to treat children. They were too much of a novelty after his hotel patients, who are usually in the fat & forty with gallstones class...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...Impostor Phillips had served as orderly to the real Dr. James H. Phillips in the Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...
...There are 13 approved Negro hospitals (for internship) in the U. S. Three largest: Homer G. Phillips Hospital, St. Louis; Harlem, Manhattan; Freedmen's, Washington...
...attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of experience." But the American Medical Association, whose headquarters is Chicago, believes that all interns should taper off into actual practice with at least 80 hours of medical lectures during internship. Over this point Cook County's Dr. Meyer and A.M.A.'s education secretary, Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, wrangled often. Dr. Meyer budged not a scalpel's length. Consequently, four years ago, the A.M.A. dropped Cook County from its list of approved hospitals, thus automatically cutting off Dr. Meyer...