Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl up in her arms, paint her breasts, endlessly scrub and sometimes kick her. They soon learn that the kicking hurts them more than the statue...
Less than 13% of its land is arable, only about 66,000 of its 2,500,000 citizens have paying jobs and the average income is only $60 a year. The country's only export earners are bananas, hides and scrawny cattle fed on thorn scrub. The only "pipelines" for drinking water are the donkeys that carry it on their backs to the cities from nearby water holes. The country's first five-year economic plan was so modest that Planning Ministry Director Ahmed Botan described it as "a collection of wishes dependent wholly on foreign...
...nervous until I started to scrub and had my work to do, and then I hadn't time to be nervous," says Peggy. The big moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital...
...Davis, a capable organizer like her colleagues, had forearmed herself with a list of the nurses and technicians who would be available. So the double team of six "scrub nurses" (the only ones who are allowed to handle sterile instruments during surgery) and two heart-lung machine technicians were soon assembled. Of the great moment itself, Mrs. Davis, says calmly: "We were happy to be doing what we'd been waiting for so long." Nurse Peggy Hartin, who headed one of the double teams, recalls: "I stopped being nervous when we stepped into the familiar routine that Dr. Shumway...
...wife." Almost immediately Blaiberg was moved to a new hospital wing where, to guard him against an infection such as that which killed Washkansky, he was as isolated as antiseptic ingenuity could make him. Doctors and nurses en tering his room had first to undress in one antechamber, then scrub, then mask and robe themselves in sterile garments. Warned by experience that they might have overtreated Patient Washkansky, the doctors were giving Blaiberg fewer immunosuppressive drugs and in smaller doses. "Perhaps we treated the last patient too early for rejection," Dr. Barnard said. "We are not going to make...