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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1938)
July 21, 1938 THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON SEINE TROUBLE i11 fiv Elinore Cowan Stor coy VKiaHT. IMS, mviei. inc. I month, that H.m "Utility." Browns that, by misfor M Straining school-1 F . day-4 continueo L ... talk with Mist F .she ran errands ana Lstranfr e .j i,,Hnr en- PUgio"' ianatic. It Hrt a times she lighten Soved lor acuon- LT.Tnrwhich hM""0. ;rMS had told 'LTdTm she in ifically asked lor tWtreaUon w .j mix Dearborn for I not? inu 1 It OECC. , fc. those rare occasions when rjd tan in the corridors tSSdong wh that way he lPfllZZ. th.t the world was foyster, and 1 MTumdeSlcient- (jet, maae nei"- , is possible. . m all fct that we ior n F .(... .natomy. chemistry, Puaw" tTH took these courses in her ik although scholarship here . , much more exacting business D during her earlier school days vein when Aunt Clara had .11., vt,r at. Itchool i ner cauj - Genniny or in France or in '. umm. Ai rA vrtii in Ian f'my dear. No gentlewoman KiUy educated unless the to it . least three foreign k..t frAm hrtnVs had C, Swn easy lor Tran ... It aree au as simple as miu n. b things that were funny, lor fuce. JisJheemcnstMtiOTjriw with Mlsa Philbln that she liked beat. The demonstration room was a complt ward in miniature, with cubic! bed, sterilizer, cabinet- full of all the necessary paraphernalia of nursing . . . Even a ptient the long-suffering dummy, whom probationers of former years had named "onaejaa Decause oi we Spartan fortitude with which she underwent tna moat narrowing or deals. Griseldas eyes were blue and staring in her pink wooden face, and ahe met clumsy atudent assaults upon her padded person with a aet smirk oi lorgi veneaa. In the demonstration class you learned to make bed so that the sheets lay smooth and tight, with neatly mitered corners, the closed end ot the pillows turned toward the door, and the castors parallel with the head and foot of the bed With the stolid co-operation of Griselda, you learned to move and bathe a patient in bed. You learned how to prepare a patient for vari ous types of medical examination, how to give a hypodermic, how to prepare trays for the most exacting physician. You learned everything, in fact, that you would later be required to do for living patients . , Above all, you learned the mean ing ot surgical cleanliness which is as much beyond ordinary clean liness as the heavens are above the earth. Then there were the glorified hours when under the supervi sion of a graduate nurse, you were allowed to go into the wards and help in little humble probationary ways like getting beds ready for ether patients, for instance, or car rying trays to convalescents. Once or twice Tran was allowed to help one of the graduate nurses prepare a patient for pre-operatlve exami nation. This was standing on the threshold of the great adventure as near aa she could hope to get for months. Not until the end of student nurse's first year did Saint Vincent's permit her to go into an operating room. e e On such occasions Tran walked on air and almost burst with un spoken questions; for asking ques tions in the presence of patients was not tolerated. And there were some of the senior nurses who did FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia -corn i iv ou tuvw. nc. f . u. tte . 1 . tn . L n rm n - -T 1 , , Iwunder.neu L ... .... " e pop. How about a lease-expirs-positivly-must- aca;e sale tomorrow V SIDE GLANCES ?ir- ttgs-"usgi3w., Jt ....... . lease hunylZrSUi!: '" .,, Jiil(Jren mn 0ur dio ig broken and the not encourage it at any time. Tran wondered sometimes if that was because even they did not know quite all the answers . . . Miss Miller did, of course; but "the icicle" was one who believed that probationers should be seen and not heard. And how, Tran wondered, was girl to get alone in this trn. world unless she could ask ques tions? Needless to say she did lo sueh an extent that before long the nickname ot "Utility began iv, sivb way to "Tne Elephant's Child." One or twice she mm... n slip into one of the rooms where the cases of shining, wicked-looking surzical instrument twi . This was one of the few thln no vi naa wougni or teliing her she must not do without permission. . . . Standing before the glass doors, she would practice calling oft as many of the names as ahe couia remember. She would even practice operating room procedure with the scissors everv nur iwin tucked into the back of her belt napping tnem smartly from one hand to the other, the WAV Mlt Miller, in one of her more com municative moments, had told her you slapped instruments into the surgeon s hand when you were on duty in the operating room call ing them oft in turn as she did so, in a kind of antiphonal chant in wmcn sne sang both parts. "Scalpel" . . . That was sun- posed to be Dr. Sargent's clipped, peremptory voice requesting a knife . . . "Scalpel" That was Nurse Dearborn's crisn confirma tory echo as she slapped the de- sirea instrument into his rubber- giovea hand. . . . "Retractor" Slap "Retractor" . . . "Haemo- stat" Slap Haemostat" . . . . sponge" Slap "Sponge" 'Forceps" Slap "Forceps." ... One day, when she had pro gressed triumphantly from "Scal pel" through a miscellaneous list of freshly learned terms to "Su ture," her eyes as gravely intent in her pale face as if life and death hung upon her efficiency, a faint noise made her whirl. The noise had a familiar sound like a cross between a sneeze and a sob. Leaning against the door-frame behind her, his hands in the pock ets of his white coat, was young Dr. Benchley. "Might I ask" he spoke with exaggerated respect, his dark eyes dancing in his ugly, charming face "whether this is a tonsilectomy, an appendectomy, or an amputa tion? Because from the wicked as sortment of weapons you seem to be using, I should say it must be nothing short of mayhem. Abruptly Trans gift of seeing herself in quite as ludicrous a light as the rest of the funny world got the better ot her; and she began to laugh. with si wary glance Into the hall behind him, he caught her shoulders and shook her warning' ly; but as she continued to giggle in helpless mirth, he caught the infection, and they stood, clinging together and rocking with stifled laughter . . . Until, for no reason at all, they were looking at each other with startled, sobered eyes. And then he had her in his arms crushing her to him. After a moment Tran cried, her palms against his chest, "Not No! I we mustn t!" Why not?" he demanded, his lips close to hers. "You know I've been wanting to do this every since that first day when you burst into Emergency remember? . You were so little and funny and scared, and sweet . . . Why not, Agility?" " 'It is contrary to the policy of this institution,'" Tran quoted from the House Rules a little shakily, because his face asparkle with tender mischief, was still so close to hers" for student nurses to have any but professional re lations with house physicians. " 'Student nurses ' " young Dr. Benchley countered with another quotation from the same source " 'are urged to be constantly alert to co-operate with physicians in any way At sight ot her suddenly whit ening lace he turned sharply. For it was Tran who first saw the door into the corridor open, and a tall linen-clad figure halt in the doorway. . . . She tore herself free and ran through the other door into Central Supplies, and on, blindly, down the corridor. For the white-clad figure in the door way was none other than that of the terrible Dr. Stephen sargent, (To Be Continued) LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Lift a Lot and Like It By HAROLD GRAY ALL RIGHT. PAKTY-WAIST! BEND YER BACK- QT YEK WEIGHT INTO IT! 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