Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity...
...invaders shot hundreds of Cretans in a vain attempt to find their hiding places. When illegal pamphlets are distributed or a newspaper slips up and prints favorable Allied news, more are shot. It has been going on now for two years. "But." George says, "we're a patient lot. We can go on for a while longer because we know our day is approaching. When the time does come, the Germans will experience a Saint Bartholomew's Day that will ring long in Crete history. We've got them all lined...
Cretans are a patient lot. Since 1941 they have bided their time. They have suffered hardships, intenser than the hardships suffered on the Greek mainland because Crete never was self-sufficient. The Gemans have been constantly robbing the people of their porridge, bread and olives. After taking their "official tithe," they come roving around in small bands, forcing villagers and townsmen to give up more at pistol point. The stuff they steal or wangle from the Cretans is not enough, so that on occasion you get German soldiers, and even officers, entering homes and begging for scraps of food...
...Army Medical Corps in Sicily, get first aid, are then flown over the water in an air ambulance to a field near the Evac. A ground ambulance picks them up and deposits them at the hospital's receiving tent. There a casualty is treated much like a patient entering a ward at home. His field medical record is begun with entries describing his wound and how he got it-these entries are copied from the tag attached to his coverall. The record, stamped with the man's "dog tag" and put in an envelope, goes with the patient...
...Patients are assigned to wards according to their injuries: there are orthopedic wards, head and spine wards, malaria, abdominal wound and dysentery wards. At his ward a patient is undressed, put in pajamas. His clothes, except for his shoes, helmet and gas mask, are stored away in a labeled bag. After that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther...