Word: mgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue sending volunteers to MGH under this system and then have them drop out of the volunteers program because the work is not interesting would be a disservice to all the hospitals served by the Committee," Crespin added...
Crespin attributed the large number of MGH volunteers who drop out of the program to "uninteresting" assignments in Supply and similar departments. "After all, Harvard students are human beings, not angels," he said...
...beginning of the year 35 students volunteered for work at MGH. Nine of these were assigned to work solely with children and do not participate under the rotation system. Only eight of the remaining 26 have not dropped out of the program during the year...
Carl A. Hedberg '57, another pre-med, centers his attention on MGH doctors whom he sees in action in the adult polio wards. Hedberg envies the doctors' insights into patients problems," "I must admit I feel frustrated sometimes," he says, "because the doctors do the real work while I just watch...
Volunteer aid in hospitals is not a new development. The movement probably first began in 1869 when the Ladies Visiting Committee of MGH organized a skeletal service which was the basis of the Volunteer Department, formally recognized there in 1941. From Massachusetts General and a few other pioneer hospitals, the idea spread, particularly during the two World Wars, through almost all large city hospitals and many community and private institutions. The Phillips Brooks contingent lay virtually dormant until the start of the current term when Reiss, one of 30 Volunteers in 1954-55, decided to reorganize the program. Registration...