Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland's Fairview Park Hospital, Mrs. Sam Smith's time came. Orderlies trundled her to the delivery room. Her own doctor, J. A. W. Reutenik was not there. An interne, P. B. Hisrich, was to help her; and to help him were the hospital's director of obstetrics, Nurse Ruth Meyer, and a student nurse...
...back. In the shake of a dead lamb's tail the baby was on its way to the nursery; in a longer jiffy the mother was trundled towards her hospital bed; and interne and nurses washed their hands, turned around for the next case. Ten minutes later Mrs. Sam Smith's own doctor came, looked at hospital records, genially congratulated Sam Smith on the birth...
...eight days Mrs. Sam Smith snuggled her newborn child to her, nursed it, found marked resemblances to her husband. On the eighth day she felt her strength returning. She discovered her suckling was a girl. Startled, she complained...
Hospital records showed that before the original "male" of the birth docket had been written an "f-e." Such penciled metamorphosis made Mrs. Sam Smith suspect that she was nursing a changeling. That was not her child, miscalled boy by clerical error. The other Smiths were authentically parents of boys, and were leaving the hospital. But Mrs. Sam Smith would not leave the hospital until she had a boy. Mr. Sam Smith hired a lawyer...
Although, in Ohio, hospitals, being incorporated as charitable in- stitutions, are not liable for damages on account of errors or mis- takes of their employes, the Sam Smith lawyer raised newspaper thunder last week. A county judge, Carl Weygandt, refused the hospital's request to hush up the affair, himself visited the hospital (and Mrs. Sam Smith). He found a nurse, Gretchen Meyer, who had bathed the baby three times during each of the obfuscated days. She "regretted her lack of observation" and said she did not learn the Sam Smith's baby's sex until...