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
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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)
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