Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowling alley's polished lanes were unscratched. No patient had slept in the sleek new 50-bed hospital, fitted with X-rays and incubators. A mess hall (capacity: 450) had finer equipment than any hotel in Montana, but nothing and nobody to serve. A dozen boys and girls shouted down empty corridors of a school-house built for 200. Lloyd Badgley's store had piles of canned goods, a soda fountain, gleaming meat refrigeration, no customers...
...Rumania saw one ray of hope: perhaps the victors would not carve Rumania right off the map if doing so meant rewarding Hungary and Bulgaria. But professional Rumanians could no longer be sure that the patient peasantry would remember the lessons their betters had long sought to drive home: cling to your king and fear the Red Russians like the plague...
...Where Were You Hurt?" The General went down the line, asking each patient where he had been hurt. On the edge of the fourth bed sat a soldier with no visible wounds. He had been sent back by his divisional medical officer, tentatively diagnosed as a severe case of psychoneurosis. He was still in battle dress...
Most important point in Major Ascroft's paper: "We believe it is better not to operate in forward areas [on patients with head wounds], provided that the patient can reach a fully equipped base hospital within 48 to 72 hours of injury." This agrees with the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing's World War I finding that "incomplete operations were more dangerous than a few more hours of delay." But Major Ascroft points out that "in this war most casualties have not reached a base hospital under 48 hours or more...
Wide-Open Wounds. Major Ascroft finds only three valid reasons for treating head-wound cases at the front: 1) severe shock (but "shock is seldom severe in head wounds"), which makes it impossible to move a patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage...