Word: knopp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Neighbor. A young man in mechanic's cap and windbreaker half-carried a little old man down the long green corridor to "Male Examining." "Are you this man's son?" asked Dr. Lawrence Knopp, the intern...
...obviously in pain, could not understand the intern's questions. Dr. Knopp asked for the admitting slip. He frowned over the man's name for a moment, then asked carefully: "Du redzt Yiddish? [Do you speak Yiddish...
...Knopp said he would do his best. From the old man's wife, waiting in the corridor, he learned that his patient was a diabetic, on insulin for ten years. While he went on with his examination, Dr. Knopp sent the woman off with her young neighbor to be interviewed by a social service worker...
...Knopp flipped the girl's nails and pricked her arm with a needle. No response. Spirits of ammonia held under her nose produced a violent head shaking which stopped as soon as the irritant was removed. The intern spoke into her ear, calling her by her first name. "Ann," he said, "can you hear me? What hurts you, Ann? Can you tell me?" The girl seemed to be making an effort to speak; she got out the word "stomach," and clutched her abdomen...