The Bulletin of the Pierce County Medical Society 1962

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PIERCE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
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BULLETIN of th e
P ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
Pierce County Medical Society
1962
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O F F IC E R S
Presid ent .........................
G. M. W hitacre
P re sid e n t-E le c t
................................. .....Stanley W . T uell
F rederick
J. Schw ind
V ice-P residen t....................................
S ecretary-T reasurer...............................
A rnold
J. H errm ann
T R U STE ES
D ale D . D oherty
F rederick J. Schw ind
R obert M. Ferguson
W arren F. Sm ith
A rnold J. H errm ann
G eorge A. T anb ara
G eorge C. K ittredge
S tanley W . T uell
C hris C. R eynolds
G. M. W hitacre
John Shaw
DELEGATES
D ouglas B uttorff
Stanley W . T uell
G. M. W hitacre
G eorge S. K ittredge
W ayne W . Z im m erm an
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ALTERNATE DELEGATES
R ichard F. B arronian
l\o b e rt W . F lorence
G lenn H . B rokaw
G lenn G. M cBride
R obert M. Ferguson
C O M M IT T E E S
E thics
G lenn G. M cBride, C hairm an
F ran k R. M addison
W endell G. Peterson
G rievance
C hris C. R eynolds, C hairm an
J. W . Bowen, Jr.
C. B. R itchie
Program
C harles J. G albraith, C hairm an
D ale D oherty
Orvis A. H arrelson
P ublic R elations
K enneth E. Gross, C hairm an
R obert M. Ferguson
John M. Shaw
A rthur P. W ickstrom
L ibrary
Jam es M. B lankenship, C hairm an
C linton A. Piper
R obert M. Ferguson
R obert E . L ane
P u blic H ealth
G eorge A. T anb ara, C hairm an
O rvis A. H arrelson
R obert C. Johnson
Cecil R. F arg h er
K enneth G raham
H ouse an d A ttendance
G alen H . H oover, C hairm an
R obert C. Johnson
G lenn H . Brokaw
C ivil D isaster
T. R. H aley, C hairm an
D avid T. H ellyer
L eo F. Sulkosky
C harles E. Kemp
K enneth G raham
R obert D . M cG real
D iabetes
T heodore J. H . Sm ith, C hairm an
R obert H . Bias
D udley W . H outz
E n tertain m en t
R obert A. O ’C onnell, C hairm an
R obert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
R obert W . O sbom e
G eriatrics
G lenn H. Brokaw , C hairm an
Jam es E. H azelrigg
M arcel M alden
L egislative
W ayne W . Z im m erm an, C hairm an
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. H arrelson
D ouglas P. Buttorff
J. H ugh Kaikus
M edical E ducation
E dm und A. K anar, C hairm an
Max S. T hom as
R odger S. Dille
Schools
D avid L. Sparling, C hairm an
R obert C. Johnson
Ilaskel L. M aier
John M. K anda
R. A. N orton
M ental H ealth
M yron Kass, C hairm an
M. R. Stuen
H arlan P. M cN utt
Traffic and Safety
L. Stanley D urkin, C hairm an
R obert M. C ham bers
Poison C ontrol
B ernard A. B ader, C hairm an
Claris Allison
D avid L. Sparling
B ulletin Staff
E d ito r
........ ......................................................S tanley W . T uell
Business M anager, ...........
Judy G ordon
A uxiliary Nows E ditor .......................M rs. R obert A. K allsen
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H a p -p y
bir th - day
to
you,
Happy Birthday
January
GEORGE KUNZ
2 HILLIS GRIFFIN
STEVENS DIMANT
3 RALPH HUFF
BURTON BROWN
4 EDMUND KANAR
5 NORMAN MAGNUSSEN
BERNARD OOTKIN
PAUL SMITH
7 ROBERT FERGUSON
GEORGE HESS
GEORGE RACE
9 CARLISLE DIETRICH
MAURICE SNYDER
10 WILLIAM BURROWS
D. A. MARLATT
11 AMALY FRESE
12 WILLIAM TODD
16 ROBERT GIBSON
LEO SULKOSKY
18 R. A. NORTON
JAMES WARD
19 THEODORE APA
DON CUMMINGS
24 RENE GAY-BALMAZ
26 RAYMOND ELLIS
27 JOHN HAVLINA
30 WILLIAM SPAULDING
31 VIRGINIA LARSEN
ROBERT TRUCKEY
If you favor governm ent m anagem ent
of your practice, pay no attention to
AMPAC.
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B U L L E T IN of the F ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
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basi c in cold control
CORICIDIN
tablets
form ula
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BULLETIN of the
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F ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
Basic Diabetic
Program Outlined
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To aid the physician in his m anage
m ent of patients with diabetes, the
American Diabetes Association has pre
pared the following check list of nine
basic elem ents of treatm ent, which
constitutes a m inim um program for dia
betes m anagem ent. There are many
other aspects of treatm ent which are
not m entioned, but they are not as im
portant as are the following:
1. Diet
2. Urine testing
3. Action of insulin and other hypo
glycemic agents
4. Technique of insulin injection
and sites for it
5. Care of syringe and of insulin
6. Symptoms of hypoglycemia
7. Symptoms of uncontrolled
diabetes
8. Care of the feet
9. W hat to do in case of acute
complications
This guide is not only of value in the
initial education of a new diabetic, but
can also be m ost helpful to both patient
and physician in the subsequent years
of m anagem ent.
Legislators ARE influenced by what
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don’t tell them about it. AMPAC will
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OVERWEIGHT?
BULLETIN of the
F ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
REGULAR M EETIN G
Tuesday, January 9
MEETING . . . 8:15 P.M.
MEDICAL AKTS BUILDING AUDITORIUM
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Attorney General
JO HN J. O’CON NELL
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Subject of Medical Interest
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A no-host social hour and dinner will precede the meeting
Social Hour: 6:00
Dinner:
6:45
Place:
Honan’s Restaurant
739% St. Helens Ave.
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BULLETIN
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of the
P ib b o e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
January Calendar of Meetings
MONDAY
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2
1
8
10
9
P ie r c e C o u n t y
M e d i c a l S o c ie t y
P .M .
17
16
Tacom a Surgical
Club—6:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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23
Tacom a Academy
of General
Practice
6:30 p.m.
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11
C.P.C. of Tacom a
General— 8:30 a.m.
8:15
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
15
5
4
C.P.C. of Tacom a
G eneral— 8:30 a.m.
Pierce County
Pediatric Society
6 p.m.
Tacom a Acad, of
Psych. & Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
HAPPY
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YEAR
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C.P.C. of Tacom a
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Tacom a Academy
of Internal
M edicine
6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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FR ID A Y
THURSDAY
W ED NESDA Y
TUESDAY
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C.P.C. of Tacom a
C.P.C. of St.
Joseph’s— 9 a.m.
12
C.P.C. of St.
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P.C.M .B. Board
8:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of St.
19
C.P.C. of St.
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G rand Rounds— Mt. View G eneral H ospital— E very Saturday 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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BULLETIN
of the
P ie b c e C o u nt y M e d ic a l S ociety
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a man with the experience, integrity, and judgment, that enables him to provide a
qualified service in planning and administering estates. Together with your lawyer,
insurance advisor, and accountant, the Trust Officer can make important contributions
to your family’s future security. As the executor of your estate, the bank will attend
to your wishes and the needs of your heirs. Arrange to meet him soon by calling the
Trust Department of the Puget Sound National Bank . . . he will be happy to explain
the many ways he can be of service, both now and in the years to come.
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BULLETIN of the
PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Some affairs of the Pierce County Medical Society are discussed
and passed upon at the monthly Board of Trustees m eeting and fre
quently do not appear on the agenda of the m eetings of the entire m em
bership. These m atters are often routine— as, in the last few m onths the
Board voted to go along with the Tuberculosis Society in expanding
tuberculosis testing in the schools: 2) to co-sponsor a course in cardiac
resuscitation with the Heart Association; 3) to continue contributions
along with the Medical Auxiliary so that Today’s Health would continue
to be in school libraries. The Board noted with regret that the physician
response to the LJGN drive was not as great as in the last few years.
In answer to an inquiry from a UGN com m ittee on December 8th, the
president was instructed to reply that the Medical Society would not
participate in solicitation for the UGN am ong the m em bership now
after the drive was officially completed. He did say that if the Medical
Society were approached by the UGN before the drive starts in future
years (which was not the case this year) we would be glad to help
in the solicitation of physician members.
Some m atters under consideration are of a prelim inary nature and
are not yet "ripe”for presentation to the entire m em bership. In this
category, the Board has recently considered the non-prescription sale
of antibiotics. In W ashington State antibiotics may be purchased in
bulk lots (and cheaply) without prescription for anim al use. It has
been suggested that this lack of regulation m ay have harm ful effects
on hum ans through the development of allergies and drug-resistant bac
terial strains. A committee consisting of Drs. Sparkling. Wicks, Lantiere
and Barronian are investigating this and have m et with representatives
of the Pierce County Veterinary Medical Association and the executive
secretary of the W ashington State Veterinary Medical Association.
Another prelim inary consideration is w hat to do with the Military
Family Hospital Fund etsablished in January. 1945, for em ergency aid
to members or their families in the arm ed services. Present balance of
this fund is $2,433.77. Dr. Shaw heads a com m ittee to consider other
uses for this fund.
Some other business done by the Board of Trustees such as that
dealing with reports from the Grievance or Ethics com m ittees is, of
necessity, partly confidential. However, if these cannot be resolved by
the Board of Trustees they will be placed before the entire m em bership.
We will report here from time to time so that the general m em ber
ship may know what is before the Society. Recom m endations and sug
gestions will be read or listened to.
G. M. W h i t a c r e , M.D.,
President.
BULLETIN
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of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
STOWELL'S... Prescriptions
O ur completely new and larger store
w ill
give
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and
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patients
more efficient and reasonable service.
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gets up . . . the paper stays on the table for
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GREATER
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tearing , cre a sin g and w rin kling under the patient
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G R E A T E R C O N V E N I E N C E — P a c i f i c P a p e r is
e a sily disposed of because of minimum bulk . . .
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BULLETIN of the
F ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c i e t y
GUEST EDITORIAL
Put Up or Shut Up
We all talk about w hat is wrong with our governm ent, but w hat
do we do about it? How m any of us are active in politics? Did you
know the results of m any elections would be altered by a change of
one or two votes in each district?
If we of the medical profession are really concerned about our
“political rulers” and “political direction” then we, as an educated group,
should individually become active in politics. This is one of your great
responsibilities to yourself, your com m unity, and, m ost of all, to your
children. We are abdicating our Freedoms by declining our responsibility.
AMPAC is a non-partisan, political organization for doctors, their
wives, and interested friends, form ed to coordinate the political activities
of physcians at all levels throughout the country. The letters stand for
American M edical political Action Comm ittee.
It is vital that you participate or we will continue to be as ineffec
tive as we have been in the past.
You will be personally contacted in regard to your participation.
The time to start is n ow and the person to start moving is you!
D
o u g la s
P. B
u tto rff
,
M.D.
BULLETIN
of the
P ier c e C o u nt y M e d ic a l S o ciety
M iik, plus M edosweet's process of fla vo r blending, the
proper w edding of G uernsey, Je rse y , Holstein m ilk, to
create the most perfectly balanced, natural health nutrient.
Medosweet
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Tacoma, W ashington
Ideal location for specialization . . .
The more than 80 physicians and surgeons
practicing in the M edical Arts Building provide
a great opportunity for referred work to the
specialist locating here. You’ll find everything
from a fully equipped hospital to a medical
supply house. And people know they can
depend on finding the best in medical care
because only those w ith highest ethical
standards are accepted as tenants.
M edical A r ts B uilding
B u ild in g Office: 11 0 M e d ical A rts Bldg.
M A rk e t 7-6441
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B U L L E T IN of the P ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
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Racket Squad
W ith a consistent series of wins in
the double elimination table tennis
tournam ent at Jackson Hall on Decem
ber 5, 1961, M arsh W hitacre emerged as
temporary singles champion.
Despite W hitacre’s victories, team
honors went to the Pierce County Pedi
atric Society; the latter also hum iliated
the Tacom a Academy of Internal Medi
cine in a special feud to be renewed at
the next session.
There were 36 eager paddle-wielding
physicians present, keeping busy at 5
tables most of the evening, with time
out for dinner and the Tacom a General
Hospital staff m eeting. This was the first
of a series of tournam ents and served
as a basis for the establishm ent of
handicaps by the handicap committee
(m em bership secret) which m et in
secret session. Scores were computed
from num ber of games lost and won by
each player ana his handicap deter
m ined from his score. The next tourna
m ent, planned for the next Tacoma
General Staff meeting night, will be a
handicap tournam ent. New entries will
start without handicaps.
Special thanks go to Jack Alger,
George Gilman, M arsh W hitacre, and
the house staff at Mt. View Hospital for
transporting their tables to the tourna
m ent, and to George T anbara for
organizing the Racket Squad.
The figures opposite each doctor’s
nam e represent his future handicap.
BEALL’S
The Prescription Store
Pierce County Pediatric Society
Bader .
T anbara
House Staffers
Cudek .
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M o n f o r e ...................................................23
P e lle y ..............................................................9
P e n e y r a ...................................................15
R e n e d o ...................................................19
S t r a n d ...................................................15
W o o d ............................................................15
Tacoma Surgical Club
A. H errm ann
Tuell .
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Tacoma Academy of General Practice
B l a n k e n s h i p ..........................................19
C o m f o r t .................................................. 23
F e r g u s o n .................................................. 23
K. G ra h am ...................................................12
H a z e lrig g ...................................................21
M a y ........................................................... 17
S u l l i v a n ...................................................11
V i r a k ........................................................... 10
Tacoma Academy of
Internal Medicine
Barronian
Colen .
Kallsen
Malden
Rowen
M. Thomas
W hitacre
Alger .
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BULLETIN of the
Committee Statement
The Use of
Poliomyelitis Vaccines
The following is a statem ent by the
Committee on the Control of Infectious
Diseases, American Academy of Pedi
atrics, concerning the use of polio vac
cines. The Pierce County Pediatric
Society concurs with these recom
mendations.
The release of Types 1 and 2 live
attenuated oral polio vaccines with Type
3 still unavailable has prom pted m any
questions from members regarding the
advisability of their use.
The Academy does not recom m end
that these vaccines be used for routine
im m unization until all three of the oral
vaccine types become available. Until
this time, the continued use of the poly
valent Salk-type vaccine is recom
mended.
If used on individual patient basis,
the live polio vaccine loses some of its
advantage over the Salk-type vaccine.
The only present recom m endation for
the use of the Type specific oral vaccine
for m ass im m unization is during pe
riods of epidemic poliomyelitis when the
prevalent virus type is Type 1 or Type 2.
The reasons behind these recom
m endations that the oral vaccine be
reserved for community wide im m uni
zation a re :
1. Only by an intensive organized
“all-out” effort can one hope to saturate
a community and reach most of its
inhabitants. Most paralytic polio now
occurs in people who did not receive
Salk vaccine. Special efforts are needed
to get the live vaccine to these groups
in order to obtain m axim um benefit
from its use.
2. In a community which is experi
encing an outbreak of epidemic polio
myelitis the “sim ultaneous saturation”
technique offers the best opportunity to
control the spread of the wild virus,
through interference or replacem ent of
the wild virus by the attenuated virus
and by rapid development of local im
m unity in the gastrointestinal tract.
Similarly it is hoped that by massive
community-wide vaccination other in
terfering enteric viruses as well as wild
polio viruses can be virtually eliminated
from the community.
3. By sim ultaneous saturation of the
com m unity the hypothetical possibility
of enhanced virulence of the vaccine
virus through m ultiple hum an passage
is minimized.
4. Problems of packaging, refrigera
tion and shelf life and distribution make
it expensive to vaccinate one child at a
time with live virus and this approach
loses the value of the community-wide
program. Furtherm ore, the child should
receive Salk-type vaccine including
booster doses, until such a time as all
three types of live attenuated vaccine
become available.
Academy m em bers are urged to take
an active part if their "community
undertakes such a community-wide vac
cination program with a live 'attenuated
virus. In m ost areas, State and County
Health Departm ents will have some
organized approach for conducting such
a program . If so, Academy m em bers are
urged to cooperate with the Public
Health Authorities. W hen such leader
ship is not available, m em bers of the
Academy m ay wish to spearhead the
program. Advice and detailed sugges
tions may be obtained from the Acad
emy office by those wishing to initiate
such a program.
Once again it should be emphasized
that until the time comes when com
munity-wide program s can be under
taken with all three types of live atten
uated vaccines, Academy m em bers are
encouraged to use and prom ote the use
of the polyvalent Salk-type vaccine as
outlined in the Redbook and subsequent
News Letters.
If you still don’t know w hat AMPAC
m eans, you m ust have m issed the vital
message on page 10. Every physician
should read this, think it over and be
ready to act!
B U L L E T IN of the P ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
4 essential actions in one Rx:
to bring most
hypertensive patients
under control
• central action inhibits sympathetic
vasoconstrictor impulses, improves
cerebral vascular tone
• renal action increases renal blood
flow as well as urine volume and so
dium and chloride excretion
• cardiac action prolongs diastole, de
creases heart rate and cardiac output,
thus easing strain on the myocardium
• vascular action blocks effects of
pressor substances, enables blood
ve sse ls to dilate more fully
Supplied: SER*AP*ES Tablets (salm on pink),
each c o n ta in in g 0.1 mg. Serpasll, 2 5 mg.
Apresoline hydrochloride, and 15 mg. Esldrix.
For complete information about Ser-Ap-Es (in*
eluding dosage, cautions, and side effects),
see current Physicians' Desk Reference or
write CIBA, Summit, New Jersey.
S e r p a s i l ® (reserpine c i b a )
A p r e s o l i n e ® hydrochloride (hydralazine hydro*
chloride c i b a )
Esiomx® (hydrochlorothiazide c i b a )
Most hypertensive patients need
more than one drug...but most
hypertensive patients need only
one Rx: SER-AP-ES* ci ba
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School Health Head
Urges Cooperation
The im pact of “sputnikitis” on school
systems has overaccentuated interest
in foreign languages and technical sub
jects, and unfortunately caused less
interest in health, physical education
and the hum anities, according to Dr.
Orvis Harrelson in his report to the
Pierce County Medical Society at its
December m eeting. Dr. Harrelson was
appointed Director of Medical Services
for Tacoma Public Schools last August.
He cited “sputnikitis” as a factor in
reducing the num ber of qualified appli
cants for medical school. Thus, it was
an additional obstacle to an adequate
program of physician recruitm ent, one
of the fields in which the schools should
be able to serve the medical profession.
Numerous other m utual advantages
which could result from closer cooper
ation between the schools and the m edi
cal society were listed by Dr. Harrelson.
Physicians were urged to take an active
interest in promoting an adequate
health curriculum in the schools, and
FIRST N A TIO N AL
A U TO LEASE
CO M P A N Y
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in insisting that qualified teachers be
m ade available in health subjects.
Lining up a group of students in “bull
pen fasnion” for brief histories and
“heart checks” should not be m islabel
led as physical exam inations. Dr. H ar
relson advocated a thorough physical
exam ination by the student’s personal
physician once every 3 or 4 years, rather
than the cursory annual “heart check”
type of exam. He related several ex
amples of the pitfalls of the latter
method. Also in keeping with a national
trend, he recom m ended that parents be
present during exam s of elem entary
school children, and that teachers re
ceive m ore “basic instruction so they
can more adequately spot incipient ill
ness and refer for help.”
Dr. Harrelson decried the inefficient
overlapping of efforts by uncoordin
ated health agencies. This is one prob
lem which m ight be effectively solved
by the Pierce County Medical Society
reorganizing and m aintaining a “Com
m unity Health Council.” Such a group
has proven effective and beneficial in
past com m unity health issues such as
m eat inspection and the pasteurization
of milk. “If the Society, the schools, and
the health departm ent will combine to
lead, great things can be done for Ta
coma’s health. If we abdicate our posi
tion of leadership, others who are less
qualified and less well m otivated will
step in.”
Doctors Judd, Doherty, Malden, M att
son and Norton took part in the en
suing discussion, the latter expressing
for the group its appreciation to Dr.
Harrelson for his selfless step in assum
ing this position of responsibility in
service to the community.
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AUXILIARY OFFICERS—1961-62 pick-up.
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P resid ent..............................................
Mrs.
Kenneth E. Gross
President-Elect.............................................Mrs. H erm an S. Judd
1st V ice-President __________________ M rs. Philip Grenley
2nd V ice-President............................
Mrs. Robert R. Burt
3rd Vice-President .
Mrs. W illiam Burrows
4th V ice-President_____________________ Mrs. D ale Doherty
Recording Secretary
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C orresponding Secretary________ Mrs. A rthur P. W ickstrom
Treasurer........................_....................
Mrs. Haskel L. M aier
Assistant Treasurer
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Mrs.
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CO M M ITTEE CHAIRM EN
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N ational Bulletin..................... ................... Mrs. Jack M andeville
Civil Defense..................................
Mrs.R obert R. Burt
Historian__________
Mrs. Charles J. G albraith
Legislative..................................
Mrs. Sam uel E. Adams
M embership.......................
Mrs. Galen H. Hoover and
Mrs. M. E. Lawrence
Nurse R ecruitm ent ............................. .Mrs. G. W . Bischoff
Param edical............. ........................Mrs. M vron A. Bass
.......................................................Mrs. M. J. Wicks
Program
Publicity— .................................
Mrs. R obert C. Johnson
B ulletin............... ............................
Mrs.
Robert A. Kallsen
Revisions
M rs. Richard F. Barronian
Safety........................
Mrs. Robert W . Osborne
Social— .................................... Mrs. R obert W . Florence and
Mrs. Charles P. Larson
Speakers B ureau...........................................Mrs. Philip Grenley
Telephone.....................
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Today's H ealth.._____________
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M inute W om en.....................
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Mrs. Thomas R. W est
.Mrs. Orvis A. Harrelson
Com m unity Service
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C ancer........................— ........ —_____
Mrs.
J. Robert Brooke
Finance
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Mrs. J. Robert Brooke
Com m unity Council.—..................................Mrs. John F. Steele
D ance......................................................
Mrs.
John S. M ay and
Mrs. D avid F . Dye
Fashion Show.................................................MaybeUe M iller and
Mrs. Russell Q. Colley
Cook Book------------------ ---- — Mrs. Thomas B. M urphy and
Mrs. R obert A. O ’Connell
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gious. They have a warehouse full of old
documents and photos relating to the
history of the lumber industry, many
interesting manuscripts, and plan a
whole new wing to the museum to house
this. Mr. LeRoy feels this fascinating
field is quickly replacing the cowboys
and Indians bit as the most romantic
period in America’s past.
Auxiliary lost a good friend when
Marge Comeron passed on last
month. Marge was a woman of
marvelous heart and she loved
children. She gave a lot of her life
to the children of Tacoma, and
they will never forget her.
Auxiliary will meet January 19 at
Marge Wick’s home for coffee. A speaker
on missionary work in Africa will high
light the meeting.
The Season To Be Jolly
It’s just behind us and we are now
faced with the season to be sedentary.
Non-skiiers will most likely get thenonly exercise the next four months run
ning up bills. Possible antidote: try run
ning up the stairs at the Historical So
ciety museum. Any member who has
yet to meet the museum’s curator, Bruce
LeRoy, should try this for a mid-winter
Parties of the First Part
A very fine party of the recent Sea
son was the annual Internists dance
early last month. Another was the Durkin-Banfield-Chambers open house at
their offices, which some wives missed.
Focal point there was Doctor Durkin’s
new Russell Frost painting hung in one
of the offices.
The Robert Kleins entertained a large
group of friends at a fall-out shelter
warming early last month. Their shelter
is quite lavish, with hot mulled wine
coming out of the faucets, and the sur
rounding basement decorated to suit.
Gifts of Note
The Banfields planned to launch their
new 40-foot cruiser for the New Year.
This will be a floating home of distinc
tion, designed for them, with a fire place
in the cabin and sleeping space for ten
(their big boy counts two). Becky and
Bud are doing the interior finishing
themselves so it will be quite elegant.
A new two-headed boat was the Dur
kin’s Christmas gift to themselves. They
have a 35-foot Christ Craft on order
with separate sleeping areas for them
selves and their children, and two
heads.
After all the years Sheila Dimant has
been busily remodeling their view home
on North 32nd, husband Steve bought
her a new house for Christmas, the old
Cushman home on North Proctor. This
also has a magnificent view, lots of acre
age, and is fairly well what Sheila had
in mind. They’ll move the end of this
month.
The Robert Johnsons bought a beauti
ful new house for Christmas, plan to
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Betty is happily selecting a houseful of
new furniture, new carpets and drapes.
Art and Dee Wickstrom also bought
their new home in time to put it under
their tree for Christmas. They’ve been
negotiating since last summer on this,
and have finally obtained the title on
that very interesting Mead home on
North 29th. Neighbors, including the
Gross family, the KaUsens, ana the
Smealls, will be devoted sidewalk-superintendents to the remodelling job the
Wickstroms have planned.
The Paltry Press
The John Shaw’s card turned lucky
recipients Christmas green with envy.
This work of art was turned out on the
Shaws basement printing press. A fas
cinating hobby but expensive, says Jean,
since it isn’t enough to have the press,
printing addicts must collect type, costly
olde type.
Not Home For Christmas
The George Races, who plan the most
wonderful trips, had a great one for the
holidays. They and five other families
leased the old hotel at Tokeland for
Christmas week, spent four days with
the antiques and the ghosts in that
wonderful old place. Peggy says they
love the beach in wintertime, were will
ing to give up a few comforts such as
centra] neating for the exciting ocean in
a winter storm.
Ardent skiiers, the Don Willards
treated the whole family to Christmas
at Sun Valley. The Philip Backup family
went out to their beach place on Vashon
for the holidays. The Mike Kass family
celebrated Christmas in Hawaii for their
third year. Kay and Ross Wright were
there and stayed over for the holidays.
The John Flynns and their large fam
ily took the train to San Francisco on
Christmas day, rented a car there and
drove to Santa Monica for the rest of
the week including Disneyland in their
tour of the sunny south. The Sig Herr
manns spent Christmas with one of the
daughters in Torrence, California.
End-of-Holiday Pome
This past season to be jolly
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Tacoma General
On Tuesday, November 21, a fire
broke out in the hospital laundry at
11 p.m. and did considerable damage
to the machinery and building. Arrange
ments were made with the Peerless
Laundry Company to do the linen of
the hospital. The laundry has taken on
all of the hospital employees to do the
work during the evening shift.
The quarterly meeting of the Medical
Staff was held on December 5. Nomina
tions were presented for new officers in
1962. Dr. Frank Rigos gave a short
talk on “Pelvimetry”.
The annual student nurses Christmas
party was held on December 18 in the
lounge with Dr. Harold Lueken as
Santa Claus. Highlights of the evening
were opening of the gifts by the girls
and singing of Christmas carols. The
Alumnae Association presented the
school with a table model radio.
Miss Lucille Larson attended an all
day conference at Virginia Mason Clinic
on supervising people effectively. Main
speaker for the event was Mr. Charley
Broaded, consultant in management
work. This was on December 8.
Miss Jean McCrimmon was m ar
ried to Mr. Gary Harding on December
29. She is a student in medical
technology.
Dr. Merrill J. Wicks has been named
president-elect for the American Asso
ciation of Blood Banks. Dr. C. P. Larson
has just returned from the East where
he attended a meeting in Washington,
D.C., with the World "Health Organiza
tion and also a meeting in New York
City with the National Boxing Assn.
Mrs. Irene Collier has been named
Director of Volunteers succeeding Miss
Helen Maddex. Mrs. Collier has been
familiar to most of us through her work
as information clerk at the hospital.
Miss Maddex will concentrate more of
her time now on the business operations
of the hospital.
On December 18, members of the Lin
coln High School Y-Teens came to the
hospital to sing Christmas carols from
7:30 to 8 p.m. Student nurses from
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the school caroled to the patients on
December 19.
The Disaster Committee has been
meeting regularly each week to plan for
a test drill sometime during the spring.
Since the Joint Commission on Accredi
tation of Hospitals recommends two test
drills per year, the hospital would like
to make one during the spring and one
during the fall of the coming year.
The contractor has taken out both of
the old boilers, so now the area where
the boiler room used to stand is com
pletely vacant. The new passageway to
the Annex has been completed and its
many users appreciate the fact that they
won’t have to walk through the water
during the rainy weather.
Mrs. Doris Wilson has been added to
the staff of the Stenographic Pool along
with Mrs. Elizabeth Rando and Miss
Gail Jurgensen. The Pool is taking on
more work continuously and this neces
sitated adding a third person to the staff.
St. Joseph’s
Pediatric News
Among the missing the persons in
our department we have Mrs. Reidinger
who is speedily recovering at home
after her recent surgery this past month.
We have all missed her, both staff and
doctors alike, and are anxious to wel
come her back on January 2, 1962 when
she plans to return to our department.
We would like to officially welcome
Mrs. Wallace, a former staff member,
who replaced Mrs. Christianson on the
11 to 7 shift. Also Mrs .Elkins, a recent
practical graduate, who is replacing
Mrs. Hendricks on the same shift.
The Pediatric staff enjoyed the St.
Nicholas Party December'6 at the New
Yorker and would like to thank all who
attended, and a big hand to the auxiliary
for all the wonderful work and help
they have given for so many needy and
worthy children. We, in our "department,
can personally see the aid they have
given and how grateful these families
are. These families often come back to
see us and are so thankful and grateful
for the assistance and care they have
received.
We would like to extend a “big
thanks” to Dr. Lundeen for the lucky
puzzles he donated to the department
for the children. They have helped tre
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mendously to keep our little ones enter
tained during their stay with us.
We wish to thank the m any doctors
for their thoughtful rem em berance of
us over the holidays and would like to
extend to them best wishes for the New
Year.
The Pediatric staff would like to
thank the Sisters at St. Joseph for the
excellent Christmas party on December
19. We all enjoyed the lovely luncheon
and wonderful atm osphere' that they
provided for us.
From the happy faces of our children
we would like to thank the m any school
groups who brought toys, favors, and
decorations for the children who were
with us over the Christmas holidays.
They added spirit and joy to our chil
dren who couldn’t be home this time of
year.
We enjoyed the m any Christmas
cards we received in the departm ent
over the holidays from our form er pa
tients who remem bered us and let us
know they were all well and good.
Again this past m onth we lost another
staff member, Mrs. Barbara Stettin who
is expecting a visit from the stork in
March. The staff will miss her and wish
her all the luck with her first little one.
week of December. The 7-3 shift went
out to dinner at the Doric Motel where
they enjoyed beef and chicken dinners
and exchanged gifts. The 3-11 shift
went to Mary L auridian’s hom e for
lunch and gift exchanging. The 11-7
shift all gathered at Mrs. Higgenbotton’s
for their festive night and gift
exchanging.
Our guest for the evening was Mrs.
Hinrichs, the wife of Dr. H inrichs and
Mrs. Huber and Mrs. Gaellings, form er
employees of St. Joseph’s.
Second Floor
We all enjoyed the Christm as party,
Tuesday, the 19th, and w ant to thank
Sister Antonia for all the fun and good
food.
We wish you all a very Happy New
Year.
News From The Business Office
We have a new girl in the office, who
has worked here in the hospital a long
time, by the nam e of Mrs. Teresa Kings
bury. She is helping us three days a
week.
It has been known that Mrs. Mary
Lou D’Andrea is ‘expecting’, but little
did we know that it is now only four
weeks away.
We found that we have some ‘artists’
in our office by the beautiful swags and
O.B.
Our newest addition to the nursery decorations in the office.
Record Room News
staff is Miss Mary Zimson, a Seattle
Our departm ent has been busy this
U graduate, who came to us in August.
Mary is being m arried to Jerry Simons m onth putting out the Evergreen Bulle
Ca pilot), on Saturday, January 6 at tin for the W ashington Association of
St. Patrick’s Church. Many showers Medical Record Librarians. The timehave been held in Mary’s honor, one coming job of typing and publishing
being a miscellaneous shower given this bulletin is designated to the various
November 13 at Mrs. Mitchell’s home, hospitals throughout the State. Our hos
with Mrs. Rud as hostess. Guests in pital has been asked to perform this im
cluded the O.B. staff, who enjoyed a portant job for the following year. All of
night (out) with games, songs and us who worked so hard on this bulletin
laughter. Mary received m any beautiful are very proud of the results. Our apol
and useful gifts for her new home.
ogies are extended to the United States
Mr. and Mrs. Ardelle Mayer are proud Postal Service for the deluge of Bulle
parents of a baby boy born November tins which we m ailed t o " to Medical
25. Mrs. Mayer, an R.N., worked with Record Librarians and Technicians and
us in 1956.
hospital adm inistrators throughout the
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur O’Leary had a State right in the m idst of this very busy
baby girl December 3, 1961
holiday season.
Mrs. Louise Highy, 3-11 R.N. in the
Our new file room across the hall has
nursery, was on our sick list for about elim inated the problem of rain-soaked
three weeks, then took a trip to Califor personnel in our departm ent. All of us
nia for recuperatory purposes. She’s appreciate the fact that no longer is it
back with us now.
necessary to venture outside in order
The annual Christmas parties for the to get old records from the file room as
three shifts were all held the second was previously the case. It is interesting
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P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e ty
to note that Saint Joseph Hospital is one
of the first hospitals to use the new
middle digit method of filing. Now that
we have the new filing system installed
and have become used to it, we wonder
how we ever got along without it before.
The flu and the pesky common cold
have taken their toll in our department.
The most seriously hit was Mrs. Thyra
Arness who was out for a few days
recuperating. We are happy to report
that she is once more back at work and
feeling much better.
On the happier side of the news, we
were all pleased to hear that Mrs. Goldie
Crouch was fortunate enough to have
her son-in-law, Donald Thompson,
home for the holidays. He is presently
serving with the armed forces in San
Antonio, Texas.
Once again, the medical record technicions took a break in their studies
in order to spend the holidays with their
families. Betty Terhaar and Dianne
Moore spent the holidays at their homes
in Mount Angel, Oregon and Coos Bay,
Oregon. Gail Hoban and Dolores Knight
spent the holidays with their families
here in Tacoma. Judy Pace spent her
holiday in Seattle at work at the Chil
dren’s Orthopedic Hospital.
New officers of the Medical Staff for
the coming year are: President, Stanley
W. Tuell, M.D.; President-elect, Fred
erick J. Schwind, M.D.; Vice-President,
Edward S. Eylander, M.D.; SecretaryTreasurer, Bryce Betteridge, M.D.;
Chairman of the Credentials Commit
tee, Charles J. Galbraith, M.D.; Members-at-Large of the Executive Staff,
Richard F. Barronian, M.D. and Walter
Sobba, M.D.
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Doctor s Hospital
Heading the professional staff of the
Doctor’s hospital for the coming year
will be Dr. S. Robert Lantiere who has
been elected president. Dr. B. D. Har
rington will serve as vice-president and
president-elect. Other officers elected
were Dr. Robert Kallsen, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Robert M. Ferguson, staff
representative.
Dr. S. Robert Lantiere
If you favor government management
of your practice, pay no attention to
AMPAC.
If you still don’t know what AMPAC
means, you m ust have missed the vital
message on page 10. Every physician
should read this, think it over and be
ready to act!
Dr. B. D. Har rington
Legislators ARE influenced by what
our profession thinks—but not’ if we
don’t tell them about it. AMPAC will
help us do this.
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Information from . . .
Poison Control Center
The Poison Control Committee wishes
to m ake the following inform ation avail
able to all physicians . . .
2-PAM or PROTOPAM
There are very few antidotes avail
able so it was felt im portant to acquaint
physicians of Pierce County with a new
antidote, 2-PAM or PROTOPAM chlor
ide which Dr. G. E. Quinbv, P. O. Box
73, W enatchee, W ash. (Office: NOrm andy 2-5506, Home: NOrmandy
3-2944) asked to be publicized.
It is used for treatm ent of organic
phosphorous insecticide poisoning —
(Parathion, TEPP, Phosdrin, Systox).
It is an antagonist to anticholines
terases and is being used in the treat
m ent of insecticide" poisoning, ophthal
mology, m yasthenia gravis and, poten
tially, for the m anagem ent of toxicity
due to chemical warefare agents.
This product is available at M ountain
View General Hospital and Tacoma
General Hospital with specific instruc
tions as to its use.
Dr. Quinby will be more than glad
to furnish needed help in case this
product is used.
BLEACHING SOLUTIONS
Bleaching solutions are 3 to 6% solu
tions of sodium hypochlorite in water.
They are corrosive to the same extent
that similar concentrations of sodium
hydroxide are corrosive. Upon contact
with acid gastric juice or acid solutions
they release hypochlorous acid, which
is extremely irritating to skin and m u
cous m em branes but apparently is
rapidly inactivated by blood serum and
has low systemic toxicity. Buffering the
acid by the adm inistration of sodium
bicarbonate offers the best m eans of
reducing the irritative effect. Do not
use acid antidotes in the treatm ent of
sodium hypochlorite poisoning.
The fatal dose for children is esti
mated to be about 15 to 30 cc (V 2 to
1 oz.)
Treatment:
A. Emergency Measures:
1. Remove bleaching solution from
the skin by flooding with water.
2. Remove swallowed bleaching
solution by gastric lavage or
emesis, using a solution of
sodium bicarbonate, 30 to 50
per liter.
fm.
ite r emesis or lavage, give a
cathartic consisting of sodium
sulfate, 30 gm. (1 oz.) and so
dium bicarbonate, 10 gm. (1
heaping tsp.) in 250 ml. (1 cup)
of water. DO NOT USE ACID
ANTIDOTES.
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STAFF OF DOCTORS HOSPITAL OF TACOMA
Second Monday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—7:30 p.m.
Auditorium of Medical Arts Bldg.
STAFF OF GOOD SAMARITAN
STAFF OF NORTHERN PACIFIC
Second Monday of each month—noon.
STAFF OF ST. JOSEPH'S
Third Monday of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 6:15 p.m.
STAFF OF MOUNTAIN VIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL
Last Monday of February, June September and November
TACOMA ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRISTS and NEUROLOGISTS
First Tuesday of each month—8:30 p.m.
Board Room of Pierce County Medical Society
Second Tuesday of the month except June, July & August
—8:15 p.m.
STAFF OF TACOMA GENERAL
First Tuesday of March, June, Sept., Dec 6:30 p.m.
TACOMA SURGICAL CLUB
Third Tuesday of each month— 6:30 p.m. at Tacoma Club
TACOMA ACADEMY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
Fourth Tuesday of each month—6 p.m. at Tacoma Club
TACOMA ACADEMY OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Fourth Monday of each month except June, July & August
—6:30 p.m. at Honan's
PIERCE COUNTY PEDIATRIC SOCIETY
First Thursday of each month except June, July and Auqust
—6:00 p.m.
STAFF OF MEDICAL ARTS HOSPITAL
Third Friday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—7:15 a m
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Fourth Friday of March, June, Sept., Dec 12:15 p.m.
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V O L. X X X III— No. 2
PIERCE C O U N T Y M E D IC A L SOCIETY
FEBRU ARY - 1962
REGULAR MEETING
FEBRUARY 12
2.
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o f th e
P ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
Pierce Couniy Medical Society
1962
O F F IC E R S
P resid ent
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G. M. W hitacre
Presid ent-E lect.....................
... Stanlev W . Tuell
V ice-President. ..
........ ........................ F rederick J. Schw ind
becretary-T reasurer
............A rnold J. H errm ann
T R U STE ES
ta 1
C om fort
John Shaw
D ale D . D oherty
Frederick J. Schw ind
R obert M. Ferguson
W arren F. Sm ith
G eorue A. T anbara
Stanley W . Tuell
C hris C. R eynolds
G. M. W hitacre
DELEGATES
D ouglas B uttorff
Stanley W . Tuell
G. M. W hitacre
W ayne W . Zim m erm an
ALTERNATE DELEGATES
R obert W . Florence
G lenn H B rokaw
G lenn G. M cBride
R obert M. Ferguson
C O M M IT T E E S
E thics
F rank R. M addison
G rievance
Chris C. Reynolds, C hairm an
J. W . Bowen, Jr.
C. B. R itchie
P rogram
D ale D oherty
Orvis A. H arrelson
P u blic R elations
V eir t
Ferguson
D ale D ohertv
Arnold J. H errm ann
John R. A lger
George A. T an b ara
L ibrary
Jam es M. B lankenship, C hairm an
C linton A. P iper
R obert M. Ferguson
R obert E. L ane
P u blic H ealth
2 ™ ? H arrelson
R obert C. Johnson
Cecil R. F arg h er
K enneth G raham
H ouse an d A ttendance
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R obert C. Johnson
G lenn H . Brokaw
C ivil D isaster
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L eo F. Sulkosky
Charles E. Kem p
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R obert D. M cGreal
D iabetes
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R obert H . Bias
D udley W . I-Ioutz
E n tertain m en t
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John R. Alger
R obert W . O sborne
G eriatrics
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L egislative
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C harles R. B ogue
O rvis A. H arrelson
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FEBRUARY
1— CHARLES B. ARNOLD
2 —ARTHUR P. WICKSTROM
3—WILLIAM P. HAUSER
6— HERBERT C. KENNEDY
ALFRED L. SCHULTZ
DON WILLARD
7— DONALD GRAHAM
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THOMAS WEST
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Arnold J. H errm ann’s bid in the race
for City Council position No. 3 will be
of special interest to Pierce County
physicians w atching returns in Tues
day’s election. Arnie’s decision to be
come a candidate cam e after a few days
careful thought that followed a visit
from representatives of the United Citi
zens for Good Government.
Although Arnie is not running as a
physician, and has not been officially
sponsored by the Pierce County Medi
cal Society, Society m em bers have ex
pressed m uch interest and pride in hav
ing a colleague of Arnie’s caliber and
ability willing to play an unselfish role
in civic affairs.
Am ie’s platform is straightforward.
He favors the council-m anager form of
government. Though adm ittedly not
trained or experienced in political or
adm inistrative activities, he has a desire
to keep Tacom a a clean and healthy city,
and feels that a city council should con
sist of sincere and intelligent citizens
who are aware of their obligations to
the community, leaving the actual ad
m inistration up to trained employees
rather than letting the city affairs be
handled by professional politicians.
Though not soliciting official support
from the County Society, Arnie has
m ade available on request any number
of his candidacy pam phlets to any
physician who would like to have some
in his waiting room or enclose them
with statem ents or other mailings,
— Editor’s note: Good luck, Arnie!
— S.W.T.
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Pierce County Medical Society Meeting
Monday , February 12
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Social Hour:
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Dinner:
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Place:
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February Calendar of M eetings
MONDAY
TUESDAY
2
1
C.P.C. of Tacom a
Pierce County
Pediatric Society
6 p.m .
5
7
6
Tacom a Acad, of
Psych. & Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
12
13
Pierce County
M edical
Society
8:15 P.M.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
19
20
Tacom a Surgical
Club—43:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
26
Stuff of M ountain
View Gen. Hosp.
Tacom a Acad, of
G eneral Practice
6:30 p.m.
27
C.P.C. of St.
16
15
C.P.C. of Tacom a
21
C.P.C. of St.
9
8
C.P.C. of Tacom a
14
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
W ED NESDA Y
22
P.C.M .B. Board
8:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of St.
23
W A SH IN G T O N ’S
BIRTHDAY
C.P.C. of St.
28
Tacom a Academ y
of Internal
M edicine
6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
G rand Rounds— M t. View G eneral H ospital— E very Saturday 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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President's Page
In this year, and particularly at this time of year, physicians cannot
ignore the social and political implications of m edical care. Even though
a doctor may feel that he just w ants to practice m edicine and not be
bothered by the increasing invasion by the governm ent into health affairs,
even though he may not feel disposed to write letters to his Congressmen
or try to influence his patients in order to curtail that encroachm ent, he
cannot escape having some thoughts and developing an opinion.
We will continue to be asked by our patients and friends, “Why
are the doctors against improved care for older people?” “W hat do you
think about Kennedy’s health plan?” “W hat difference does it m ake to
the doctors inasm uch as the proposed plan concerns only hospital and
nursing home care?” etc. People expect physicians to be able to give an
intelligent, inform ed answer to all such questions. Those patients who
know and trust us expect our advice on m edical care plans as well
as medicine.
In order to answer questions specifically rather than in vague
generalities, it will be well for us to learn the principal objections to
the King-Anderson Bill. The specific objections to H.R. 4222 as presented
by the A.M.A. before the Ways and Means Committee of the House
of Representatives are listed on page 31.
On the local scene, two of our physicians, A. H errm ann (City
Council) and Banfield (Park B oard), are running for office in elections
on February 13 and March 13. They m erit your support.
G. M.
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Editorially Speaking
Is a person conceited if he considers 10 seconds of his tim e more
im portant than one hour of someone else’s time? There have been
num erous instances in which several extra hours of tim e have been
spent by the nursing staff and the record room employees deciphering
an order or other chart inform ation which the doctor wrote in a hurry.
In each instance, this waste of tim e could have been prevented if the
doctor had used a few additional seconds to write his gems of wisdom.
Fortunately, the ones who would be m ost justified in labelling
these a c ts. as conceit— the nurses and m edical record librarians—-have
charitably chided us for carelessness, rather than conceit. They write
clever little poems about our penm anship, and we chuckle am ong our
selves. Poor handw riting isn’t an unalterable characteristic. Each and
every unreadable order that appears on the chart could have been legibly
written if the doctor had been careful enough— or unselfish enough—
to write just a little more slowly and deliberately. W ith our profession
more than ever needing the good will of the nurses and other hospital
employees, and with legal vultures hanging over us ready to turn a slip
of the pen into a lawsuit, we’ll be doing ourselves a favor as well, if we
can try some few-seconds-extra handw riting in return for the nurses'
tolerance and the record rooms’ clever rhym es. Other people’s time is
valuable too.
S.W.T.
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had a num ber of pharm acists, hospital
Your TV Program
adm inistrators, laboratory technicians,
A SK YO U R DOCTO R is the title that R.N.’s, dentists and m ilitary physicians
your TV program has used since its
debut on November 8, 1959. This was
not by any m eans the originator of
medical public relations television pro
grams by a County Medical Society, but
it was among the early ones. Thus, it
has served as predecessor to m any pro
duced through the country now.
Since that date, 80 program s have
been presented by m em bers of the
Pierce County Medical Society. One hu n
dred and fifty-eight of you have given
your time and talents to this program
on one or more occasions. U nfortun
ately, one hundred and twenty-two
members of our Society have not con
tributed to date. We would like you to
consider this a plea for your assistance
in this very im portant public relations
project. Anyone who would like to ap
pear, or who has a plan to improve the
program or suggestions for topics for
discussion, is hereby publicly welcomed
to make it known to the Public Rela
tions Committee in any hospital corri
dor, or on any street corner, or by tele
phone. And please do not refuse to do
your share when called upon.
It is of interest to note that in addi
tion to our own medical society m em
bers, five Seattle physicians have ap
peared on the program; we have also
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assisting us. The cooperation of our
m edical colleagues and those in para
m edical sciences has been sincerely
appreciated and it is hoped th at we can
count on them for continued assistance
in the presentation of future programs.
According to Mr. Max Bice, Station
M anager of KTNT-TV, surveys show
that “Ask Your Doctor” has a weekly
viewing audience of from 80 to 100,000
individuals. Letters from viewers show
that the geographical range is consider
able, covering all of Southwest W ash
ington as well as King, Kitsap and
Pierce Counties and as far north as
Victoria, B. C.
Since its inception, the time spot of
this program has been one of the best
viewing periods of the entire week. It is
probably the one period of time during
the week w hen the television set is used
by the m ajor portion of the family and
program s on other channels are not of
a really serious competitive type. The
value of the time used to date by our
medical society (if the sam e half-hour
were sold to a com m ercial sponsor with
the m axim um discount the station nor
mally gives program s bought for this
length of tim e) would total $50,000!
And that is indeed a substantial contri
bution to our public relations efforts.
You are sincerely urged to assist in
any and every way possible in continu
ing w hat has proved to be a m ost valu
able asset to the Pierce County Medical
Society.
K e n n e t h E . G r o s s , M.D.
Chairm an, Public
Relations Committee.
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G e rs h o m C . R o w la n d , S e n io r V ic e P re s id e n t an d T ru st O ffic e r
fo r the 2 9 O ffic e s o f N a tio n a l B a n k o f W a s h in g to n .
T w e lv e years ago G ershom C. Rowla n d , a native Tacoman, le ft his g r o w i n g
la w practice to join Natio nal Bank o f W a s h in g to n as Vice President and Trust
O ffic e r. Last year, he was named Senior Vice President and Trust O f f ic e r of
our Bank.
W ith his b a c k g ro u n d , and w it h the ex p e rie n ce he has a cquired as a banker
in the f ie ld o f a d m in is tra tio n , inve stments, and business m an a g e m e n t, M r. Rowla nd
is h ig h ly q u a lif ie d to g u id e trustees and beneficia rie s t o w a rd m ore co m p le te
f u l f i l l m e n t o f the purp oses o f th e ir trusts. A lt o g e t h e r, he is a va lu a b le man to
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already k n o w s M r. Rowla nd, so he can tell you o f the m a n y adva ntages o f our
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very little about it so didn’t feel quali
Strong Governor Needed fied
to comment.
O’Connell also took stands on other
O'Connell Tells Doctors
Though not specifically going on rec
ord as being in favor of m otherhood.
State Attorney General John J. O’Con
nell expressed num erous equally con
troversial opinions in a smoothly-deliv
ered address to the Pierce County Medi
cal Society at its January 9th meeting.
Commenting on various facets of State
government in a m anner compatible
with that of a possible candidate for
high elective office, O’Connell told a
respectful and attentive audience that
the State governm ent should be simpli
fied by elim inating unnecessary boards
and commissions, reducing the num ber
of elective officials, and putting all
responsibility on the shoulders of one
person, the Governor.
The handsom e attorney general criti
cized the present State tax structure as
“piecemeal and haphazard,” and favored
its reorganization. He was pessimistic
about the present State highway pro
gram, m aking a guess that the SeattleTacom a freeway will not be completed
until 1968, instead of the officially an
nounced 1966 target date. Citing several
examples of ridiculous allotments under
the ADC program of the State, O’Connell
said that public assistance and welfare
paym ents “m ust be based on actual
need.” He did not enlarge on this phil
osophy in its application to medical
care. W hen asked from the floor about
the State’s utilization of provisions of
the Kerr-Mills law, he stated he knew
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issues such as schools (he’s for good
ones), crime ( he’s against i t ), and State
economics (he favors better integration
of east and w est). The latter opinion
implied that he favored a tunnel be
neath the Cascades.
He em phasized the significance of the
m edical profession as a potent political
force, stating that support of the medi
cal profession was of utm ost importance
to the success of any political issue,
locally or nationally.
Food For Thought
The average life of each of the
world’s great civilizations has been 200
years, and during that life it has pro
gressed through the following . . .
From
From
From
From
From
From
From
From
From
bondage to spiritual faith;
spiritual faith to great courage;
courage to liberty;
liberty to abundance;
abundance to selfishness;
selfishness to complacency;
complacency to apathy;
apathy to dependency;
dependency back to bondage.
In 15 years the United States of
America will be 200 years old. Based
on w hat has been happening for a great
num ber of years in this country we are
in the eighth period m entioned above.
The question is : Can we reverse this
trend?
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B U L L E T IN
o f th e
W O M A N ' S A U X IL IA R Y . . .
To The Pierce County M edical Society
on m issionary life in Africa by
AUXILIARY OFFICERS— 1961-62 talk
stating
very simply th at it was a sur
M rs. K enneth E . Gross
P resid ent
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prise to hear wom en talking of personal
political action, in contrast to other
parts of the world where our counter
parts have no participation in nor inter
est in their governm ent. She described
the quiet dictatorship and inflexible
class system of Portugal, where they
lived a year in preparation for their life
in Angola. Angola was her African
home for thirteen years. She was
speaking of. it as hom e when she
described the problem s of the colonial
governm ent, and said that freedom
would be dangerous there, where the
balance of power hugs a tightrope, and
the witchdoctor labors little hampered
by civilization.
Mrs. Henderson is a friendly whole
some type intellectual . . . her dedi
cation to the people of Angola com
pletely candid and inoffensive. As an
educational program this talk of hers
was one of the best, and as entertain
February meeting will be a luncheon m ent it was wonderful.
at Louise Bowen’s home on Stadium
A u x ilia ry Business
Way. Doctor Sig H errm ann will be
The m eeting prior to Mrs. Hender
guest speaker, relating his experiences son’s talk began w ith a brief memorial
aboard the hospital ship Hope.
tribute to the four recently deceased
The day of January meeting was Auxiliary m em bers, three of them past
clear and sunny but frigid, and although presidents. President Keaty Gross asked
the mem bership entered Marge W ick’s for a m om ent of silence in respect for
new house slightly bent from the 20- Mrs. W. B. Penney, Mrs. John Gullikdegree, 30-mph wind, they were re son, Mrs. Stefan Thordarson, and Mrs.
warded. In the beautiful large living W alter Cameron.
area was a proportionately large fire in
Emily Barronian announced that
the fireplace, instant-success for the H eart Sunday, the H eart Association’s
coffee party.
annual fund drive, would fall on Feb
ruary
25 this year. Auxiliary members
Black M a g ic
hold
key
posts in this effort and Emily
Speaker for the day at January m eet
hopes
we
will continue to support it.
ing was sparked by instant success too.
Jeanne Judd rem inded the member
After Auxiliary’s business m eeting
ended on a crescendo of legislation, Mrs. ship that the swim m ing program for
Henderson began her very interesting
(Continued on page 19)
Pres idei 1 t-E lec t
_______ ...... M rs. H erm an S. Ju d d
M rs. P hilip G renley
1st V ice-P residen t
...........
2 n d V ice-P resident—_______ __________ M rs. R obert R. B urt
M rs. W illiam B urrows
3rd V ice-P resident _____ ___ „
4th V ic e -P re sid en t_________ _________ ___M rs. D ale D oherty
R ecording Secretary ............ _______ M rs. D udley W . H outz
M rs. A rthur P. W ickstrom
C orresponding Secretary____
T reasurer
...........................
M rs. H askel L . M aier
A ssistant T reasurer_________
_.M rs. G lenn H . Brokaw
C O M M IT T E E C H A IR M EN
A m erican M edical E ducation
F o u n d atio n _______ ____
M rs. E lm er W . W ahlberg
N ational B ulletin ........ ......... ________ M rs. Jack M andeville
M rs. R obert R. B urt
C ivil D efense
............ ......
H isto rian—
_____________
M rs. C harles J. G albraith
M rs. Sam uel E. A dam s
L egislative___________________
M em bership
.......................... M rs. G alen H . H oover and
M rs. M. E. L aw rence
N urse R e cru itm en t
.
M rs. G. W . BischoJf
P a ram ed ic al.........
M rs. MvTon A. Bass
P rogram
.......................
__________M rs. M. J. W icks
Publicity— ...............................
M rs. R obert C. Johnson
B ulletin__________ ______
M rs. R obert A. K allsen
Revisions.™ .............................
M rs. R ichard F . B arronian
Safety
............................
M rs. R obert W . O sborne
Social. ......... ............. .........
.M rs. R obert W . Florence and
M rs. C harles P. Larson
Speakers B ureau___
---------------- M rs. P hilip G renley
'T elepho ne,
------------- M rs. R ichard B. Link
T oday's H e a lth —.......................
M rs. B ernard R. Rowen
M inute W om en
.........
M rs. G eorge A. R ace and
M rs. T hom as R. W est
C om m unity Service.— .....
....M rs. Orvis A. H arrelson
H e a rt___________ ____________ ....M rs. E d w ard R. A nderson
C ancer
...................................
M rs. J. R obert Brooke
F inan ce______________________ --------------Mrs. J. R obert Brooke
C om m unity Council_________ .......................M rs. John F . Steele
D ance
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M rs. John S. M ay and
M rs. D avid F. D ye
Fashion Show ___________ - ............ — M aybelle M iller and
M rs. Russell Q. Colley
Cook B o o k .............................. M rs. T hom as B. M urphy and
M rs. R obert A. O ’C onnell
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handicapped children at the Y, origin
ated by Edith McGill years ago. has
always benefitted by Auxiliary’s active
participation and at present Marilyn
Mandeville, Evelyn Osborne, Barbara
Teats and Jeanne volunteer their Mon
days for this most rewarding activity.
Marilyn will take special training this
spring to qualify as an instructor next
year. They can use more help down
there, non-swimmers help as dressers,
and strong swimmers who enjoy chil
dren will find this ideal volunteer work.
Legislation is Large
Luckily for our membership, Lorraine
Adams hasn’t slackened her pace in
keeping us abreast of the latest develop
ments. At January meeting Lorraine
told of the Legislative Workshop she
and eight other members attended.
These eight will organize AMPAC dis
cussion groups to include the entire
Auxiliary membership. The meetings
will be held evenings so that husbands
will attend too. The workshop plan is
to disseminate the information on AM
PAC and enlist our support. Of course
instruction on the current legislation
goes with it. The first of these meetings
was held at Doctor Buttorff’s home last
month, and was felt to be quite worth
while by those attending. The groups
will be kept small, members will be
contacted at random to attend, and if
you’r e especially interested you may
contact Lorraine to attend one of these.
Last month Peg Race’s minute women
did a very efficient job calling the mem
bership for letters to Thor Tollefson
regarding HR 4222, the King-Anderson
bill. Were we as efficient in getting those
letters off? By all means, write to Mr.
Tollefson and give him your opinion.
At this date he is on the fence and only
forty votes are needed in the house to
bury this odoriferous bill. As Kay Wright
so aptly put it at meeting, “Let the dust
ing go, and get those letters in the mail!”
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Also, please send a carbon copy of your
letter to Lorraine Adams, so that she
can evaluate your message.
Cook Book
While we are in stamps and envel
opes, there are several other things we
should get into the mail right away.
The deadline for recipes for the Cook
Book has been extended, and if you
haven’t already sent in your three fav
orites, send them in now. They espe
cially need soups and beverages.
At the Board meeting at Dorothy
Maier’s home the 16th of last month,
Cook Book Chairman Ruth Murphy
brought the Board up to date on the
committee's progress. Committee mem
bers had been somewhat alarmed by
the expense of the project and hesitated
to rush ahead since the book would cost
$1.50 per copy to print. The Board
recommended and the membership ap
proved that the committee should go
ahead with the Book, without advertis
ing to defray costs, and try for an excel
lent publication to be ready for sale
next September. Ruth showed the Board
some sample pages typed up ready for
the printer. Several recipes such as
Roast Duck with Peach Sauce, and Wild
Dove and Mushroom Cassarole inspired
us to send in our own closely guarded
secret for Burton Bouillabaise. People
have to let out their shower curtains if
they eat too much of it.
Overdues
Dues Chairman Elvina Brokaw an
nounces there are 182 paid members at
this date. Elvina has sent out statements
to 75 members delinquent on dues, and
hopes the response will be immediate as
our dues go into national this month.
Non-payment of dues means you will be
excluded from next year’s handbook.
Date Switch For O ur Dance
Discovering that Auxiliary’s dinnerdance was scheduled for the same eve( Continued on page 21 )
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ning as an important medical meeting,
Dance Chairman Betty May quickly
came up with a solution and a fresh
idea for the party that may make it our
most successful. The dance date has
been changed from March 3 to May 18,
which is a Friday, and it will be later.
Supper served after midnight may be a
more congenial arrangement for those
who tend to doze instead of dance after
a big dinner.
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Nurses Scholarship
Auxiliary members will be disap
pointed to learn that love interfered
with the best intentions of our nurses
scholarship winner. She has quit school
and married.
Newscellaneous
The Gay Nineties Quartette has a
new member . . . the Tattooed Lady.
She doesn’t sing, but in her daring gay
nineties bathing costume, this daintily
tattooed young lady is quite a hit. Sandy
Rosenbladt and Muriel Nelson were a
big hit the day they picked her up at
the Maternity Shop, (she is not preg
nant), and carried her by halves past
the hotel just when businessmen’s
lunch was emerging from the Sabre
Room. The Quartette has a date in
Bremerton this month when they will
entertain at the Rotarian’s annual meet
ing with their wives.
Follow The Sun
Betty Mattson will vacation two
weeks in Chandler, Arizona, this month.
Elvina and Glenn Brokaw are in Palm
Springs, will visit Elvina’s sister in San
Diego on their two-week sun break.
Ruth and Tom Murphy are also in
Palm Springs this month, will be back
the first week in March in time to pack
for their trip Around The World.
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w ith a b a rb itu ra te to p re v e n t cxcessivc
c en tra l stim u la tio n , an d vitam ins to su p p le
m e n t the restric te d diet:
V io -D e x, in tro d u c e d in 1950, is now a
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H O SP IT A LS
Tacoma General
A grant to support students in the
study of Cytotechnology was received
from the United States Public Health
Service. Tacoma General Hospital has
the only approved school of' Cytotech
nology in the Pacific Northwest. Cur
rently, there are sixty-three schools in
the United States. Preclinical require
ments for entrance are two years of
college. Mr. Maurice Smith and Mrs.
Elizabeth Ewing are presently enrolled
in the six months course. Application
for entering the training program may
be made to Dr. M. J. Wicks.
As a part of the laboratory in-service
training program, Dr. Wicks presented
a lecture on hematological problems on
January 22. The technologists first
viewed ten "unknown” slides in a test
yourself plan and Doctor Wicks dis
cussed these cases. The Coulter Count
er, an automatic red- and white-cell
counter, was demonstrated, and the
new teaching microscope with a demon
stration view-screen was shown.
Carolyn Harrold, a new student in
Medical Technology, is a transfer stu
dent from Mercy Hospital in Nampa,
Idaho. Her husband is at Fort Lewis
with the National Guard.
The first part of February, Lucille
Larson will attend a meeting of the
ASCP-ASMT Medical Technology Com
mittee in Houston, Texas.
Doctor Karlstrom, Biology Depart' ment at University of Puget Sound, and
his histology class visited the clinical
and pathology laboratories on January
16, 1962.
Doctor C. Philip Larson, Jr., of the
Department of Anesthesiology, Univer
sity of California, presented a lecture
on the “Uptake and Distribution of Halothane” and “Effects of Posture on Dead
Space and PC(X Gradients” on Saturday,
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January 20, 1962, at 9 a.m. in the Jack
son Hall Auditorium.
There have been several changes re
cently in the Department of Anesthesi
ology. Doctors H. Loring Dixon and Hoe
Tian Poh have transferred to the Uni
versity of Washington and King County
Hospital. Additions to the Department
of Anesthesiology at Tacoma General
Hospital are Doctors Lilia Peneyra, Ger
ald Love and Peter Murray. Doctor Lilia
Peneyra comes from Mountain View
General Hospital and Doctor Gerald
Love was transferred here from the
University of Washington. Doctor Peter
Murray comes from Winnipeg General
Hospital in Canada.
St. Joseph's
Many of us in Surgery are recuper
ating from bouts of flu and the New
Year has been very busy.
Our head nurse, Mrs. Wetsch, is re
covering at home after a short stay as a
patient here at St. Joseph. We all miss
her and wish her well.
We are sorry that one of our new
O.R. nurses, Mrs. Mower, left St. Joseph
and is currently working with her hus
band at American Lake Veteran’s
Hospital.
Two of our auxiliary workers are hap
pily awaiting the blessed event—Mrs.
Ezell and Mrs. DiRe.
The surgery corridors are crowded
daily with bright, eager-faced students
now and they certainly help us with our
work. The big question now is—which
one of the new students caught her
contact lens on her tongue while
scrubbed on a case? They surely do
add sparkle up here!
January 2nd marked the date for the
beginning of the Winter Quarter. Every
body was very happy to see Mrs. Riedinger back to work again with renewed
vigor and enthusiasm.
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o f the
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“W inter W onderland”, the 1961 Preclinical C hristm as sem i-form al, was a
gala event enjoyed by all of the St.
Joseph students. Chosen as queen was
Sandy Pelton, and her two princesses
were Mary M cGuire and B arbara M ullin.
On Decem ber 15, Brown’s Point Club
house was decorated with evergreens,
mistletoe, and holly; and couples danced
to the m usic of “The Royals”. Com m it
tee chairm en for the vent were Joan
Johnson, general chairm an; Joyce Fred
ericks, decorations; Karon W iggins, re
freshm ents; and JoAnn Courtney,
program .
The Pre-clinicals have just begun to
discover the true “spirit” of nursing.
Each girl works 6 hours a week in a
clinical area. The class of ’64 is learning
the art, the science and spirit of nu rs
ing under the capable leadership of their
instructors. They are eagerly awaiting
capping exercises w hich will be held
early in February.
Our first group of Juniors took their
trip to Firlands for their affiliation in
Tuberculosis N ursing, but they say there
is no place like St. Joe’s. Our last group
of Seniors are affiliating at A m erican
Lake this quarter also. We are not sure
if they like this type of nursing or not.
W e are hoping that no news is good
news.
The Faculty is busy revising and
working on different parts of the school
10-12 HOUR HUNGER CONTROL WITH
NO REPORTED CONTRAINDICATIONS
TENUATEDOSPAN
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program . If you w ant a headache, just
join them for a few sessions.
The M edical H ealth Director for the
Student Body did a real good job h an d
ling the flu bug w hich usually hits the
Student Body hard. V accination at pre
scribed intervals, has enabled all stu
dents to enjoy life.
The School of N ursing and all its
m em bers wish all of you a HAPPY
NEW YEAR.
Little pink bundles have come to stay
at the following h o m es:
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Prowty, January 17,
a daughter.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Jam es, January
17, a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. George Baker, January
8, a daughter. Mrs. Baker is R.N. on
the 11-7 shift in the Emergency Room.
Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks, January 14,
a daughter. Mrs. Hendricks, L.P.N.,
works 3-11 in the Pediatric D epartm ent.
The day staff enjoyed their m onthly
evening out at Steve’s Gay 90’s last
Thursday night for dinner and w hat a
show. We especially enjoyed the Schottische by Irene Brick and M yrtle Rud.
Pat V alentine’s birthday was celebrated
at the sam e time. W hat a party, hey
Pat?
Alterations are now in progress for
our new m edicine room. The electri
cians and plum bers are through with
their part in this big undertaking. The
carpenter is busy these days m aking
cabinets and m aking space for new
sinks. It will surely be nice w hen it is
finished.
Dietary reports th at on January 22
one of our cooks, Mrs. Phoebe Rem m er,
began her new work at U.P.S. Mrs. Rem
m er has been w ith us for the past four
and one-half years. Rose Remeto has
returned from her Denver vacation and
is busily back on “Vegetable Detail”.
Jerry Senn is a proud new grand
m other as is Agnes Power who boasts of
fourteen grandchildren.
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o f th e
N ew tray girls are: Josephine M oon
an d Adelle H alst. W e w elcom e you to
o u r green tiled kitchen.
O ur cooks held th eir A n n ual C h rist
m as P arty at Steve’s as usual.
Since the first of the year, the X-Ray
D ep artm en t has felt the loss of two of
its tech n ician s— P atricia D esC hane and
N ancy Doll. M iss Doll becam e the bride
of Lt. B ernard P ian alto in Jan u ary at
S aint F ran cis C abrini C hurch. In A pril
they will be assigned duty in Ja p an . M iss
D esC hane is presen tly at M adigan G en
eral H ospital recovering from surgery
p erform ed on Jan u ary 16. W e hope to
have h er back w ith us soon an d we
prom ise not to w ork h er too hard.
W e are proud to an n o un ce th a t we
have a p otential cham pion in o u r m idst.
O ur h ead tech nician , Jack M cD onald, is
leading his curling team to the State
C ham pionship at the G ranite C urling
Club in Seattle on F ebruary 17 an d 18.
They hope to play the U. S. C ham pions.
Good luck, Jack!
W e find that this m o n th h as brought
som e new and som e old faces to our
Pediatric staff. M rs. Sm all is replacing
M rs. Cook who left the d ep artm en t for a
civil service position at A m erican Lake
V eteran’s H ospital. M rs. Slinger, a re
cent graduate from W isconsin, h as
joined the dep artm en t as our 11-7
nurse. M rs. W allace, now w orking on
the 7-3 shift, w as form erly w ith us as
M iss H ardy, th a t is before the M r. an d
M rs. “BUG” got her.
M rs. R iedinger, after a m o n th ’s leave
of absence, is back w orking diligently at
h er m any varied tasks. N ice to have h er
am ong us again.
W e have w ith us a new group of pro
fessional students, we hope they find
w orking w ith us and our little ones a
pleasure, as well as educational.
T hrough our ow n in tra-d ep artm en tal
m eetings each sh ift has h ad the oppor
tun ity to discu ss: n eed s, w an ts, pro
cedures and tech n iq u es w h ich w e find
im p erativ e to a sm o o ther o perating de
p a rtm e n t, an d in tu rn w e feel w e have
gained a closer relatio n sh ip w ith each
other.
M rs. H endricks is a proud new
m o th er, of a big, bouncing, blue-eyed
boy. She is a fo rm er L.P.N . of our staff.
A m ong o u r list of p atie n ts we find
the n am es of D onald C um m ings, son of
Dr. C um m ings. W e h ad w ith us cheerful
M ary Evoy, d au g h ter of M r. Lawrence
Evoy. w ho a few years ago, w as Busi
ness M an ag er at St. Joseph Hospital.
B radley M oshner, son of M rs. Inga Molu n d M oshner, a fo rm er student, was
our p atie n t for several w eeks, quickly
becom ing the p et of each an d every one.
T he M ain ten an ce D epartm ents re
ports a ra th e r extensive rem odeling pro
gram . N ew alu m in u m and glass doors
have been added to the center lobby
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o f the
leading to the w aiting room and the
A dm inistrator’s office. The A dm inistra
tion and Secretary offices are being re
done w ith terrazzo linoleum on the
floors and a fresh paint job.
The south end elevator was placed
out of com m ission on the 15th of this
m onth and work was started on replac
ing this u nit w ith a new m odern eleva
tor. W e hope that the increased speed
and the new autom atic features will
m ake this elevator m ore serviceable.
W ork has progressed very satisfactorily
on schedule. We plan to have the new
unit in operation by the 15th of Febru
ary. We are very happy with the con
sideration and cooperation shown by
everyone during this period.
W ork will begin, very shortly, on
m odernizing our adm itting office. We
plan to rem ove the existing island
counter and to build in three cubicle
offices. This will give the patient being
adm itted m uch m ore privacy and will
allow them to be seated while their
sociological data is being taken and
recorded. D uring the period of rebuild
ing and painting, the adm itting office
will move to the present w aiting room.
The O.B. D epartm ent has had a face
lifting in the diet kitchen. A new room
has been built to house the baby lau n
dry departm ent. A new store room has
been built in the alcove of the kitchen
and last but not least, a new medicine
room has been added in w hat was form
erly the store room.
N um erous other m odernization proj
ects are in m ind and will be reported on
in the near future. The m ain one of
these will be the installation of an
em ergency light and pow er unit. We
will have m ore inform ation concerning
this project for the next issue.
Little did we, from the M edical Rec
ords D epartm ent, realize that the m iddle
digit filing system recently installed in
our departm ent would create such wide
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interest. Officials from the M edical Rec
ord D epartm ent of M adigan G eneral
H ospital recently visited our departm ent
in order to study the m ethod of filing
we are now using. It was a comm on
agreem ent am ong our visitors that St.
Joseph has one of the m ost advanced
and superior filing system s to be found
anywhere. All of us here in the Medical
Record D epartm ent are inclined to
agree with this opinion.
W ith the passing of the holidays, the
m em bers of the departm ent have
launched busily into the New Year. To
help usher in 1962, Mrs. Olga Mackie
held an inform al gathering in her home
for all of the people in Medical Records.
Besides a w onderful array of food, there
was m uch fellowship and singing
around Mrs. Mackie’s new organ. We
all enjoyed this gathering very m uch
and wish to again express our thanks
to Mrs. Mackie for this delightful pre
lude to the coming year.
If you have noticed a greater am ount
of noise coming from our departm ent
this m onth, take heart, for it is only the
sound of the adding m achine as we
begin to work on the yearly reports once
again. The task of tabulating the figures
for 1961 is no sm all task and requires
extrem e accuracy. After all the statistics
have been tabulated, a sm all booklet
containing the figures from the various
departm ents will be made.
The m onthly m eeting of Tacom a
Medical Record Librarians was held this
m onth in the M edical Library at St.
Joseph. Presiding over the m eeting was
Miss Sally M ount, R.R.L. from Tacom a
General Hospital. The item s of business
discussed this m onth were concerned
chiefly w ith disease classification and
the “International N om enclature of Dis
eases and O perations”. N ext m onth’s
m eeting is scheduled to be held at
N orthern Pacific H ospital in Tacom a.
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of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie t y
civil d isaster train in g an d key local
physicians.
D octors are u rg ed to atte n d all or part
of the course. C ontact the W.S.M.A.
C entral Office, 1309 Seventh Avenue,
T he W ashington State M edical A sso Seattle 1, W ash in g to n fo r the agenda
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W elfare, Public H ealth Service and the
W ashington State D ep artm ent of
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BY OW NERS
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o f th e
Tacoma Doctors Not
Specific Objections to
Bashful in Politics
H. R. 4222
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. . . as presented by the A.M.A. be
If you think physicians shun the
political arena, take a look at the n u m fore the W ays and M eans Com m ittee of
ber of Tacom a doctors who have been the House of Representatives.
candidates for public office in recent
1. It would lower the quality of
years.
m edical care.
Most recent, of course, is Arnie H err
2. It is unnecessary.
m ann’s current bid for position No. 3
3. It would be unpredictably, but
on the City Council (lever No. 16-A on
extrem ely expensive.
the ballot). Arnie seeks a 4-year term
4. It would endanger the entire
as Councilman. Also a current candidate
Social Security system.
is E. E. “Bud” Banfield who will be on
the ballot in M arch com peting for the
5. It would underm ine private
post of Com missioner on the M etro
health insurance and other pre
politan Park Board. Bud polled a highly
paym ent m echanism s.
respectable vote total in his first bid for
6. It would lead to the decline, if
the position in M arch of 1958 w hen he
not the dem ise, of voluntary
lost out by a slim m argin to an estab
efforts at the com m unity level.
lished political nam e.
7. It would expand into a fullBest known for their political achieve
fledged system of socialized m ed
ments, of course, are Hom er H um iston
icine, eventually covering every
who served on the Council from 1953 to
citizen of this nation.
1960, the last two years as deputy
8. It would cover m illions of people
mayor, and Frank Jam es, County Coro
who neither need help in paying
ner since 1950.
the costs of their health care, nor
Other Pierce County physicians who
w
ant such help.
have had their hats in the ring at various
times are T. B. M urphy, a candidate for
9. It would compel the nation’s
younger workers to pay for these
City Council in 1958; Charles P. Larson
unnecessary benefits through an
who was elected freeholder in 1952
increased
com pulsory gross pay
when the Council-M anager form of gov
roll tax.
ernm ent was form ulated; Albert Ehr10. It would determ ine eligibility for
lich, a candidate for School Board direc
m edical aid on the basis of age
tor for District No. 400 in M arch, 1958;
rath
er than on the basis of need.
Norm M agnussen, candidate for County
11. It would destroy the concepts of
Coroner in 1950; J. E dm und D em ing,
individual and fam ilial responsi
candidate for the School Board, D istrict
bility.
No. 10, in M arch, I960; and Charles
Bogue, elected director on School Board,
12. It would overcrowd existing fa
District No. 401 in 1956.
cilities through overuse.
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MEETINGS
STAFF OF DOCTORS HOSPITAL O F TACOMA
Third Monday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—6:15 p.m.
Last Monday of February, June Septem ber and November
—8:15 p.m.
First Tuesday of March, June, Sept., Dec 6:30 p.m.
Third Tuesday of each month—6:30 p.m. at Tacoma Club
of each month—6 P-m. at Tacoma Club
^1 Thursday of each month except June, July and August
—6:00 p.m.
Third Friday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—7:15 a.m.
at New Yorker Cafe
Fourth Friday of March. Tune, Sept., Dec.— 12:15 p.m.
P IE R C E CO U N T Y M E D IC A L S O C IE T Y
VOL. X X X III— No. 3
TACOMA, WASH.
M ARCH - 1962
REGULAR MEETING
MARCH 12
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2 ______________________________ BULLETIN of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie t y
1962
O FFICER S
President
.......................................................G. M. Whitacre
President-Elect
-........................
Stanley W. Tuell
Vice-President
........................ Frederick J. Schwind
Secretary-Treasurer
______ _____ Arnold J. Herrmann
TR U STEES
John F. Comfort
John Shaw
Dale D. Doherty
Frederick J. Schwind
Robert M. Ferguson
Warren F. Smith
Arnold J. Herrmann
George A. Tanbara
George C. Kittredge
Stanley W. Tuell
Chris C. Reynolds
G. M. Whitacre
D ELEG A TES
Douglas Buttorff
Stanley W. Tuell
Arnold J. Herrmann
G. M. Whitacre
George S. Kittredge
Wayne W. Zimmerman
ALTERN ATE D ELEG A TES
Richard F. Barronian
Robert W. Florence
Glenn H. Brokaw
Glenn G. McBride
Robert M. Ferguson
COM M ITTEES
Ethics
Glenn G. McBride, Chairman
Frank R. Maddison
Wendell G. Peterson
Grievance
Chris C. Reynolds, Chairman
J. W. Bowen, Jr.
C. B. Ritchie
Program
Charles J. Galbraith, Chairman
Dale Doherty
Orvis A. Harrelson
Public Relations
Kenneth E. Gross, Chairman
Robert M. Ferguson
Dale Doherty
Arnold J. Herrmann
John R. Alger
Ceorge A. Tanbara
Arthur P. Wickstrom
Library
James M. Blankenship, Chairman
Clinton A. Piper
Robert M. Ferguson
Robert E . Lane
Public Health
George A. Tanbara, Chairman
Orvis A. Harrelson
Robert C. Johnson
Cecil R. Fargher
Kenneth Graham
House and Attendance
Galen H. Hoover, Chairman
Robert C. Johnson
Glenn H. Brokaw
Civil Disaster
T. R. Haley, Chairman
David T. Hellyer
Leo F. Sulkosky
Charles E. Kemp
Arthur P. Wickstrom
Kenneth Graham
Robert D. McGreal
Diabetes
Theodore J. H. Smith, Chairman
Robert H. Bias
Dudley W. Houtz
Entertainment
Robert A. O’Connell, Chairman
Robert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
Robert W. Osbome
Geriatrics
Glenn H. Brokaw, Chairman
James E. Hazelrigg
Marcel Malden
Legislative
Wayne W. Zimmerman, Chairman
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. Harrelson
Douglas P. Buttorff
J. Hugh Kalkus
Medical Education
Edmund A. Kanar, Chairman
Max S. Thomas
Rodger S. Dille
Schools
David L. Sparling, Chairman
Robert C. Johnson
Haskel L. Maier
John M. Kanda
R. A. Norton
M. E. Lawrence
Mental Health
Myron Kass, Chairman
M. R. Stuen
Harlan P. McNutt
Traffic and Safety
L . Stanley Durkin, Chairman
Robert M. Chambers
Poison Control
Bernard A. Bader, Chairman
Claris Allison
David L. Sparling
George A. Tanbara
Bulletin Staff
Editor________________________________ Stanley W. Tuell
Business Manager
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Judy Gordon
Auxiliary News Editor
................Mrs. Robert A. Kallsen
Happy Birthday
MARCH
2 ERNEST L. RANDOLPH
4 LOUIS M. ROSENBLADT
GOVNOR TEATS
5 W. HOW ARD PRATT
6 EDW ARD F. McCABE
9 ROSS E. M cPHAIL
DOUGLAS TAIT
11 J. EDM UND DEM ING
15 BRYCE BETTERIDGE
17 RUSSELL COLLEY
18 ROBERT O’CONNELL
20 FRANZ HOSKINS
ALBERT A. SAMES
22 ROBERT KLEIN
JOHN P. LIEW ER
CHARLES MARSHALL
24 ROBERT CRABILL
25 ROBERT BURT
GERALD C. KOHL
26 ROSS W RIGHT
31 FR ED ER IC PAINE
Cover picture by Lee Merrill.
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G uiding p rincip les an d practical
reco m m en d ation s fo r the use of anti
co ag u lant drugs are included in a new
booklet issu ed by the A m erican Heart
A ssociation.
T he “G uide to A nticoagulant Ther
apy” is designed to aid physicians insti
tu tin g an tico ag u lan t drugs in making
the m ost effective use of the drugs. It
does n o t consider indications for ther
apy or m erits of different agents in the
prophylaxis or tre atm en t of specific
diseases.
T he tw o types of agents currently
em ployed— h e p arin an d coumarin-type
com pounds— are discussed w ith refer
ence to physiological effects, administra
tion, co n train d icatio n s an d appropriate
antidotes. Fibrinolytic agents (used
alone or in com bination w ith anticoagu
la n ts ) are not inclu d ed as the Heart
A ssociation feels “th ere h as not been
enough clinical experience to permit
reco m m en d atio n s.”
T he guide originally appeared in the
July, 1961 issue of “C irculation”, one
of the th ree professional journals issued
by the H eart A ssociation. It was pre
p ared by B enjam in A lexander, M.D. and
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BULLETIN
o f th e
Monday, March 12
F I L M - - - 7:45 P.M.
1961
MASTERS
TOURNAMENT
Augusta, Georgia
PROGRAM
JIM
8:15
P. M.
OWENS
Varsity Football Coach and A thletic Director
University o f W ashington
Social Hour:
6:00
Dinner:
6:45
Place:
Honan's
Restaurant
739V2 St. He'ens Ave.
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BULLETIN
March Calendar of M eetings
MONDAY
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
1
C.P.C. of Tacom a
Pierce County
Pediatric Society
6 p.m.
5
6
Staff of T. G.
6:30 p.m.
Tacom a Acad, of
Psych. & Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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19
D O N 'T FO R G ET
TO VOTE
Staff of St. Joseph’s
6:15 p.m.
Staff of Doctor's
7:30 p.m.
26
21
Tacom a Surgical
Club— 6:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
22
C.P.C. of Tacom a
28
27
15
C.P.C. of Tacom a
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
20
8
C.P.C. of Tacom a
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13
Pierce C o u n ty
M e d ic a l
Society
8 :15 P .M .
7
29
FRIDAY
2
C.P.C. of St.
9
C.P.C. of St.
16
Staff of Medical
Arts— 7 :15 a.m.
P.C.M.B. Board
8:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of St.
23
C.P.C. of St.
Staff of M. Bridge
12:15 p.m.
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a Academy
Tacom a Acad, of Tacom
of Internal
General Practice
M edicine
C.P.C. of Tacom a
6:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
G rand Rounds— Mt. View G eneral H ospital— E very Saturday 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e ty
Orville Shoemaker, left, stops for a m oment with an
officer of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York, to discuss an
article in the W all Street Journal.
Orville Shoemaker, Assistant Vice President and Trust Officer
of the National Bank of Washington, is a familiar figure in New
York’s financial district.
Twice a year —and more often, should the market change its
pace —he goes to New York and confers with Wall Street financial
leaders to discuss the stock market and review stock data. Long
a specialist in the investment field, Shoemaker finds that these
meetings give him additional background on which to base his
recommendations to the Trust Investment Committee of NBW.
He is typical of the well-informed, experienced specialists wh
handle trust matters at National Bank of Washington.
M EM BER
F E D E RA L D E P O S IT
IN S U R A N C E
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o f th e
President's Page
W e hear on every side that the public image of the medical profession is
bad and getting worse. It is said that the patient’s welfare is not always para
mount, that physicians “stick together” and are loathe to discipline each other,
that they don’t allow time for the patient to tell his story and that patients are
regarded as cases rather than individual persons.
W hat are we doing to improve our image? Individually, in our association
with patients we can have great effect. As a group, the Pierce County Medical
Society sponsors the TV program, “Ask Your Doctor”. This program has a large
audience comparable to network TV at the same hour. The station is anxious
to have it continued. W hat is this program accomplishing? Does it reflect on
the medical society and physician? Should it be continued? The public is
hungry for medical knowledge and it is well that we offer authoritative, con
servative information to counteract that which may be received elsewhere.
Recently, some other county medical societies have been running ads in
local newspapers concerning such subjects as grievance committees, emergency
call systems, tissue committee operations and other safeguards by hospital staffs
for the protection of patients. The A.M.A. has recom mended the placing of ads
in local newspapers for all medical societies and offers to furnish material for
such purpose.
These and other measures to improve the image of our profession locally
are being investigated by the public relations committee under Dr. Gross. They
will report to the executive committee at the M arch meeting. Any members
having opinions on how our public relations program should operate are invited
to contact either the public relations or executive committee of the Society.
—G. M.
W h it a c r e ,
M.D.
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BULLETIN
o f th e
P ie b c e C o p n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
It was discouraging . . . to hear it announced at our last County Society
meeting that only 30 per cent of the doctors in Pierce County had joined
AMPAC. This committee has one major current goal: to block the present trend
toward socializing of medicine. Can it be that 70 per cent of us are in favor
of socialized medicine? Is it more charitable—or just more discouraging—to
say that 70 per cent of us think socialism is inevitable so why fight it? I can’t
believe that 70 per cent of us are willing to give up that easy. Expert observers
in Washington, D.C., tell us that if supporters of the King-Anderson Bill can
get it out of committee this session, it will have its best chance for passage—
better than a few years ago and probably better than a few years hence, for
further developments of private plans for care of the aged will make everyone
aware of how unnecessary this bill is, and the present baek-eddy of conserva
tism may mature into a tide that will make passage of such a bill in future
sessions unlikely. Ribicoff has made it clear that he considers passage of this
bill simply a step toward a complete nationalized medical coverage.
But the King-Anderson Bill can be blocked now
o n ly i f toe a re w illin g to
m ake th e e ffo rt to b lo c k it.
If you’re opposed to socialized medicine and socialism, JOIN AMPAC.
W rite to your Congressman expressing your opposition to the King-Anderson
Bill—even if you’re sure he’s already made up his mind. The COPE is using
this weapon letter-writing—effectively, and we must counter-attack with the
same weapon. (O ur Auxiliary is already doing a fine job with this.)
SOCIETY MEMBERS, AND AUXILIARY MEMBERS, cut out the
addresses on page 30. Paste ’em, clip ’em or stick ’em on your desk, on your
bulletin board, or by your kitchen counter, and then get off a letter a week,
or oftener and with your help, and your support of AMPAC, we will defeat
the King-Anderson Bill.
— S. W. T.
BULLETIN
of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d jc .a l S o c i e t y
Nature’s Own . . .
M ilk , plus M e d o s w e e t's process o f fla v o r b le n d in g , th e
p ro p e r w e d d in g o f G u e rn se y, Jersey, H o lste in m ilk , to
create th e m ost p e rfe c tly ba la n ced , na tura l health n u trie n t.
Medosweet
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Foods
Tacoma, Washington
Everything under one roof. . .
Tacoma’s M edical Arts Building provides all
the needs of the medical profession under
one roof . . . a modem hospital, fully
equipped laboratories, prescription pharmacy,
optical store, fine auditorium, new restaurant,
medical supply house, Pierce County Medical
Society office and library . . . PLUS
more than 500 parking spaces within a half
block of the building. W e invite your inquiry.
B u ild in g Office: 11 0 M ed ical A rts Bldg.
M A rk e t 7-6441
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o f th e
F ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
Be sure to watch . . .
"ASK YOUR DOCTOR”
SU N D A Y , 6 p. m.
KTNT-TV- Channel 11
PROGRAMS
March
4 - DIETS A N D DRUGS
Dr. David F. Dye
Dr. Robert Bias
Dr. George Batey
March 11 - No Program
March 18 - POISON CO N TRO L
Dr. Bernard A. Bader, Chairm an
March 25 - HIP FRACTURES
Dr. Donald A lliso n , Chairman
Dr. Thomas Smeall
Dr. W illia m Rohner
A pril
1 - SKIN D IV IN G
Dr. Kenneth Graham , Chairman
M r. Richard E rskine,N ationally C e rtifie d
Scuba D iving Instructor
Lt. Herman Kunz, Naval D ivin g O ffic e r
BULLETIN
o f th e
fo r the d ietin g p a tie n t who has everything—except w eight loss
DEXAMYL® SPANSULE® S L "
fo r resu lts m easured in pounds lost
Results from a typical study of 'Dexamyl', currently the most
widely prescribed anorectic agent:
A group of 28 patients, who had been unable to achieve signifi
cant weight loss on diet alone, lost an average of 1.14 pounds
per week on'Dexamyl' throughout an eight-week study. No side
effects due to 'Dexamyl' were reported by the investigators.
—Gelvin, E.P.; Kenigsberg, S., and Boyd, L.J.: J.A.M.A. 170:1507 (July 25) 1959.
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The active ingredients of the 'Spansule' cap
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SUPPLIED: Bottles of 30 capsules.
P r e s c r ib in g in fo r m a tio n a d o p te d J a n u a r y , 1961.
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BULLETIN
o f th e
Voters M ay Put Local
Governm ent on
Surgery Schedule
Depending on voters’ approval at the
polls on March 13, two Tacoma surgeons
may get a chance to show how they can
operate in two different facets of local
government. The race for M etropolitan
Park Board Commission was not on the
ballot at the primary, but in the finals, E. E.
“Bud” Banfield will join a field of eight
candidates, one of them an incumbent, for
the two positions to be open on the Park
Board. Bud was edged out by a narrow
margin for the same post in 1958. His plat
form is based on his desire to help shoulder
the responsibility of providing a wellrounded recreation program for both the
adults and young people of the community.
The Park program should be a real asset
to the healthy mental and physical develop
ment of youth of all ages, and help reduce
juvenile delinquency. In fostering such a
program, Bud is very much aware of the
economic problems involved in making
each tax dollar stretch efficiently to provide
the best possible facilities.
Arnie Herrm ann will move into the finals
as an apparent favorite in the race for posi
tion No. 3 on the City Council based on his
wide margin over his opponent, Jimmie
Porter, in the primaries. However, he and
the other candidates supported by the
United Citizens Committee have been cam
paigning with renewed vigor as the final
election nears. Arnie has modestly credited
that committee for much of his success in
polling a large total in the primaries,
rather than basing it on his personal appeal
to the voter. He also gives much credit to
the help he has had from his medical col
leagues and from members of the women’s
auxiliary. Expressing to the Bulletin his
sincere gratitude for the support he has had
from the doctors, Arnie has stressed that
the need for continued interest and support
is even greater as the campaign nears its
climax.
Racket Wielders Out To
“Get Whitacre" with
Handicaps
The first all-county physicians’ handicap
table tennis tournam ent takes place in the
basem ent of Jackson Hall on Tuesday,
M arch 6, with “Beat M arsh Whitacre” as
its theme. W hitacre was acclaimed cham
pion at a similar tournam ent in December
but no handicaps had been established at
that time. The current tournam ent will in
clude handicaps ranging from the low of 5
(that’s W hitacre’s ) to a high of 25 (another
internist and a radiologist), so every con
testant can consider himself in the run
ning for one of the individual trophies that
will be taken home by the winners. Handi
caps were listed in the January issue of the
Bulletin.
The tourney will get underway at 5:30
p.m., with a nominal entry fee for each con
testant and w ith singles and doubles tour
naments running concurrently. Doctors who
missed the Decem ber tournament, and
hence lack a handicap, can take part in this
tournament, but will play their games on a
no-handicap basis. If possible, bring your
own paddle, for there was a slight short
age of good paddles last time.
Permanent plaques are being prepared
for presentation to the winning teams, the
pediatricians being temporary team cham
pions, and D oherty’s Mavericks, the unat
tached group, being the dark horses—pig
mented, that is—of the tournament.
This will again be on the same night as
the Tacoma General staff meeting and time
will be allowed for attending dinner and
the meeting. Five tables will again be in
action.
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of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e t y
straight or concave?
If the confusing array of concentric circles were removed, it would be easy
to see that the sides of the square are perfectly straight.
Likewise, when claims of “price” and “blood level” advantages are viewed
in proper perspective, it becomes clear that it’s what a drug does that counts.
V-Cillin K® achieves two to five times the serum levels of antibacterial activ
ity (ABA) produced by oral penicillin G.1 Moreover, it is highly stable in
gastric acid and, therefore, more completely absorbed even in the presence of
food. Your patient gets more dependable therapy for his money . . . and it’s
therapy he really needs.
For consistently dependable clinical results
prescribe V-Cillin K in scored tablets of 125 and 250 mg. or V-Cillin K,
Pediatric, in 40 and 80-cc.-size packages. E ach 5-cc. teaspoonful con
tains 125 mg. crystalline potassium penicillin V.
V -C lllin K ® (p e n ic illin V p o ta ssiu m , L illy)
1. Griffith, R . S.: A n t ib io t ic M e d . & C lin . T h e ra p y , 7:129, 1960.
This is a rem inder advertisem ent. For adequate inform ation for use, please consult
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B U L L E T IN
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o f the
P e r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
W O M A N ' S A U X IL IA R Y .
.
Civil Defense Chairm an Lom a Burt an
AUXILIARY OFFICERS— 1961-62 nounced
that there will be a training course
President ................................................Mrs, Kenneth E. Gross
for
“H
ealth
Services in Emergency” held
............................. Mrs. Herman S. Judd
President-Elect
1st Vice-President....................................Mrs. Philip Grenley
at
the
University
of W ashington March 22
2nd Vico-Preaident............... ................... Mrs. Robert R. Burt
3rd Vice-Preiident ......................... ... Mrs. William Burrows
through
24
for
all
medical and allied health
4th Vice-President ............................ -...... Mrs. Dale Doherty
Recording Secretary................. ..........Mrs. Dudley W. lioutz
services.
The
course
is sponsored by the
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Arthur P. Wickstrom
Treasurer
........ —........................... Mrs. Haskel L. Maier
Civil Disaster Committee of the State Med
Assistant Treasurer
Mrs. Glenn H. Brokaw
COM MITTEE CHAIRMEN
ical Association with the assistance of the
American Medical Education
W omen’s Auxiliary.
Foundation ............................... Mrs. Elmer W. Wahlberjj
National Bulletin....................................Mrs. Jack Mandeville*
W ithin the next few weeks brochures
Civil Defense .... -.... ............................ Mrs. Robert R. Burt
Historian........................................... Mrs. Charles J. Galbraith
containing the agenda will be mailed to all
Legislative ...............
- ...... Mrs. Samuel E. Adams
Membership.............................. ... Mrs. Galen H. Hoover and
physicians and to many members of the
Mrs. M. E. Lawrence
Nurse Recruitment..
..................Mrs. G. W. Bischoff
other health fields. This course will be of
Paramedical ... ................................—..... Mrs. Mvron A. Bass
Program ...................... - -........ — ............ Mrs. M. J. Wicks
interest to the wives as well as the Doctors.
Publicity .............................................Mrs. Robert C. Johnson
Bulletin ...................-............................. Mrs. Robert A. Kallsen
Included in the program will be informa
Hevisions..................................... Mrs. Richard F. Barronian
Mrs. Robert W. Osborm
Safety
tion on the new Medical Self-Help Plan,
Mrs. Robert W. Florence and
So cial.......................
and a demonstration of a 200-bed emer
............... Mrs. Philip Grenley
Speakers Bureau
Mrs. Richard B. Link
Telephone...
gency hospital with mock casualties.
Today’s Health .....
Mrs. Bernard R. Rowen
Minute Women .
... Mrs. George A. Race and
There is no registration fee for the course,
Mrs. Thomas R. West
Community Service
Mrs. Orvis A. Harrelson
but
those planning to attend are asked to
H e a r t..........
Mrs. Edward R. Anderson
Cancer ...
.......
mail
in the registration form printed in this
Finance
Community Council— ............................ Mrs. John F. Steele
issue in order to assist the committee on
D ance
Mrs. John S. May and
Mrs. David F. Dve
arrangements.
Fashion Show
..........................
Maybellc Miller and
Mrs. Russell Q. Colley
Lorna tells us that reservations are be
Cook Book
Mrs. Thomas B. Murphy and
Mrs. Robert A. O'Connell
ing held open at the Meany Hotel for those
Auxiliary meeting in March will be a wishing to stay over there for the meetings,
that the space allotted is limited, and
coffee party at Delores Havlina’s home on but
reservations
March 16th. The Havlinas have been travel advance. should be m ade two weeks in
ing in the Orient since mid-January, spend
ing the greater part of this time traveling
Fun a n d G a m e s
in India, where Delores planned to search
How about a cocktail party where any
for ivory and jade art objects. The program thing you can think of is being served, with
for March meeting will be a speaker on a buffet twenty feet long, where all the
Century 21.
best-looking men are in one room, on an
February' luncheon at Louise Bowen's otherwise quiet Sunday evening. Such a
home proved again that Auxiliary includes perfect combination of ingredients made
the best cooks in town. The lunch was the W hitacre-Harris-O’Connell party last
exceptionally good, thanks to chairman Kay month one of the better events of this space
Willard and her talented committee; Ruth age. The setting was M cChord Air Force
Sames, Marcy Peterson, Sherry Johnson, Base, just this side of orbit. The atmos
Ellen Pinto, Gwen Hosie, Jeanne Judd and phere there is rarified and galvanic.
Bart Huff. The program everyone looked
Auxiliary ladies, elegantly gowned, made
forward to was cancelled, however, as a moon-shot disinteresting by comparison.
Doctor Herrmann was unable to be there, Hostesses Hazel W hitacre, M argaret Harris
and a speaker from the state office of and Janet O’Connell were extra-terrestrial
AMPAC substituted.
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o f the
P rescription O p tical
C om pan y
“ F a s h io n
In
E y e w e a r”
Tacoma, Washington
M A rket 7-4151
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Phone M A 7-7745
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P ie k c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
M OUNTAIN VIEW FUNERAL HOM E
CEM ETERY
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of the P i e b c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e t y
( Continued from page 16)
in white silk chiffons and rhinestones. Janet
greeted guests with a beautiful white cashmere and fox sweater over her shoulders, a
little something Santa brought. Nancy But
torff wore a dazzling new red satin opera
coat and sheath combination. Chummy
Piper rode to the hounds all day at Woodbrook’s hunt, but appeared leisured and
lovely in gold and white brocade for the
party. Marge Wicks was gorgeous as usual,
this time in a black lace sheath. Jeanne Vad
heim wore her gold and tourquoise silk
sheath from the Orient, which she really
should wear inside-out sometime as the
underside is solid gold, not gold-color, real
non-negotiable gold.
After the party most everyone stayed for
supper at the Officer’s Mess. Wonderful
music from a 12-piece dance band reas
sured us lately-civilians that our boys are
still getting the best of everything. Sheila
Dimant and Florence Rigos were tops at
the twist.
A
Seriou s Citizen
Florence Rigos does many things well,
and it’s always interesting to see this beau
tiful capable Auxiliary member come up
with some new venture. Now we find Flor
ence an enthusiastic student of political
science. It all started, she says, when she
picked the King-Anderson bill as her proj
ect for the year at a study group she be
longs to. “You starting reading about all
this,” she says, “and you don’t just wonder
why anymore, you want to know how they
can do it!”
Florence attended the Christian AntiCommunist Crusade school in Seattle last
month, the whole week with the exception
of election day. She saw the Zimmerman’s
and the Kalkus’ there. Ruth Sames and
Margaret Harris were there too, as were
probably many others. Florence says the
meetings were packed, but it was not a
rally, there was no witch-hunting, it was all
purely instructive. The classes covered all
areas of communism from the basic the( C ontinued on page 2 1 )
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ories of Marx to the many ofishoots of com
munism in practice today. Most interesting
was the study of our own republic, with its
easement toward socialism, and the distor
tion of the democratic idea.
Florence said the emphasis at the school
was on strengthening religious thinking as
an antidote to the communist appeal, and
it was demonstrated how Christianity, be
ing incompatible to communism, could be
our best weapon.
O u t To Lunch
Evelyn Osborne’s was the place for
luncheon last month. Ev gives a wonderful
party and this time she gave five in a row,
entertaining altogether about a hundred
and fifty friends. The lunch was excellent,
preceded by a refreshing light punch bowl.
Emma Bonica stopped by at the party on
her way to Seattle where she and John
maintain an apartment several nights a
week. The remainder of the week she’s just
Mom here at home in Tacoma. Emma is
looking for just the right house in Seatde.
It will have to have an eleven-foot ceiling
in the dining room to accommodate that
fabulous gold Venetian glass chandelier.
We met Edna Chambers at Evelyn’s
luncheon for the first time, a pretty, sparldyeyed young woman. Noticing her attractive
black smock, we gave with our most patron
izing, “Is this your first?”
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Meanwhile back at the punch bowl there
was a good deal of splashing.
N e w s o s is
Auxiliary members were bowled over to
see Peg Race on the sports page several
times last month. Out of seventeen hundred
competing at last month’s Tacoma W omens
Bowling Association tournament, our girl
came up with the first in singles, and the
all-events cup. Tournament for the State
championship will be held here this month.
The Durkins and the Haleys drove to
Los Angeles for a convention last month,
then stopped at San Diego, San Simeon,
Santa Barbara and Carmel. All of this just
between the snows and the rains, so that
their trip was weather-perfect.
Andy and Joan Anderson, and the W il
liam Hausers are in Hawaii for two weeks.
The John Shaws were there the last week
of February. The Russell Colleys are in
Palm Springs. Ken and Keaty Gross took
two weeks for skiing at Alta and Sun
Valley.
Ruth and Tom Murphy are leaving
March 16th on a follow-the-sun trip around
the world. From New York they will fly to
Lisbon, then Madrid, Rome, Istanbul,
Athens, TelAviv, Jerusalem, Cairo, Beirut,
Teheran, Karachi, Delhi, Calcutta, Ran
goon, Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong, Ky
oto, Tokyo, Honolulu, and then on home
about May 15th.
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Tacoma General
Mrs. Lucille McDonald attended the Na
tional Convention of the Operating Room
Nurses’ Association in Denver. This was
held from February 19-22.
A farewell gathering for Miss Ruth Kynoch, Director of the School of Nursing,
was held on February 20 in the lounge of
Jackson Hall. Members of the Board of
Trustees, department heads and friends
were present to give her recognition for
her service to the hospital and school. She
will join the World Health Organization
and will be stationed in West Cameroons,
Africa, for two years.
A party was held for Miss Gail Jurgensen of the Stenographic Pool on February
14. She will be married on February 24 to
Mr. Stanley School craft. After their honey
moon trip, she will return to the hospital
to continue her duties here.
Mrs. Genevieve Reiners who has been
employed at the switchboard, left on Feb
ruary 11 to await the birth of her first
child. She came to the hospital last sum
mer. Her husband is a member of the Air
Force and is stationed at McChord Field.
Mrs. Georgette Lanksbury who has been
in the Credit Department for the past year
left on February 9 to join the office staff of
Doctors Govnor Teats and G. H. Brokaw.
The Tacoma Fire Department has been
cooperating with the hospital in evacuation
procedures and fire-fighting methods. Over
300 persons have attended these classes
given by Inspectors Church and Call of the
Tacoma Fire Department. A full scale fire
drill with the assistance of the Fire De
partment was held on February 8.
Early in March construction is to begin
on the wing in front of the present hos
pital. This will necessitate making the
temporary entrance to the hospital on the
Fourth Street side. The existing Fire Exit
will become the main entrance. Panelling
will be put up through the dining room,
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making a corridor into the hospital. Ap
proximately 32 eating places will be lost
when this change takes effect. The Medical
Records Department will be moved out of
its present location and transferred to the
former Diet Kitchen area in the basement
of Jackson Hall. The space now occupied
by Medical Records will be utilized by
admitting and information offices, plus
storage areas for wheel chairs and wheel
stretchers.
A drill will be performed during the lat
ter part of February to test the disaster
preparedness of the hospital. A committee
composed of hospital personnel and Doctor
Ardiur Wickstrom have been working on
tliis program since November. It is planned
to use student nurses as casualties, with
moulages borrowed from Fort Lewis to add
realism to the injuries.
Graduates of the School of Medical
Technology make news:
Barbara Erickson (1959) has been ac
cepted as part of the Laboratory Team on
the S.S. Hope. This hospital ship will be
leaving for a stay in South America at the
end of March. Barbara has been employed
at the University of Washington Cardiology
Laboratory.
Cipriano Rodas (1960) spent the week
end visiting the laboratory and friends. He
is currently employed in the Bacteriology
Department at the University of Kansas.
Jo Hillstrand (1960), after a year in
Anchorage, is on her way to San Francisco
and hospital work.
Anne Barlow will vacation in Anchorage
where she plans to enjoy the grand skiing
weather. She wall also visit Fairbanks and
Juneau.
Lucille Larson attended a meeting of
the ASMT-ASCP Medical Technology
Committee in Houston, Texas, on February
10-11. On her return she will stop over
in Kansas City where she will visit tire
University Medical Center and their 1,000
bed hospital.
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A surprise dinner party was given in
honor of Mrs. Ella Magnusson’s 20th anni
versary of service to St. Joseph’s Hospital,
at the Towers Restaurant. “Maggie” is well
known to all as the 3rd Floor south head
nurse. Mesdames Jacobsen, Reidinger, Rea,
Gutoski and Williams and Miss Clavin were
extra guests for this gay affair. Everyone
had a most enjoyable time.
Mrs. Margaret Peterson (dietician) and
Mi- oialdine Casey, L.P.N., have recently
recuperated from illnesses. It is good to
have them back with us once again.
Two of our R.N.’s underwent ear opera
tions recently. Mrs. Helen W entlandt and
Mrs. Harriet Bucsko are now back at work
and hearing well.
We are enjoying Dr. Santos as the new
intern on Medical floor.
Sr. Mary Paul left a few days ago on a
business trip to Denver, Colorado.
We express our sincere sympathy to Mrs.
Myrtle Halverson on the recent death of
her step-father Mr. Jack Conway.
Mrs. June Escke, R.N., was presented
with a delicious cake by Mrs. Halverson.
Mrs. Escke has been with a year. W e hope
she will remain for many years to follow.
It appears that Mrs. Rounell, R.N.,
doesn’t get enough exercise on the job. She
spends her off-duty hours skiing and bicycle
riding.
Rumors have been spreading that Mrs.
Pearse, R.N., will be leaving our floor and
going to another floor. W e hate to see her
goThe professional student nurses had a
wonderful Valentine Party for the little
ones in Pediatrics. Students, patients and
all enjoyed the sweet goodies.
This has been a very active month with
field trips to Buckley, Remann Hall and
weekly attendance at Crippled Children’s
School.
February 8, the staff attended a pot-luck
dinner and baby shower at Mrs. Riedinger’s
home, for Mrs. Stettin. The day is nearing
for the new arrival.
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The February intra-departmental meet
ing was well attended by the staff. We dis
cussed nursing care practices.
A special thank you to Sr. Helene for
the educational programs she has offered.
All who attended felt them well worth
while.
Mrs. Williams is the proud owner of a
new Chev.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Frank
D ’Andrea on the arrival of their new baby
daughter, Marion Louise, bom on February
2nd.
We welcome back Nora Nitz, who has
recovered from her recent injuries and to
Melva Dilger who has come to lend us a
helping hand.
The Annex staff is again losing two val
uable members of its team. Mrs. Ruff is
leaving in March to study as a surgical
scrub nurse. Mrs. Johnson, our Occupa
tional Therapist will be moving back to Il
linois. We are sorry to see them go; patients
and staff alike will miss them. At the same
time we welcome Miss Nordstrom to our
day crew and Mrs. Suzanne Boepple as
our new Occupational Therapist.
We received a post card from Miss Lantz
and Miss Ewings. They are finally on their
way to New York. We hear it was difficult
for them to drive by Sun Valley without
stopping for a second round of skiing.
Dietary reports that a baby shower was
given in honor of Doris Owens, at the home
of Mrs. Ruth Decker. Doris received many
lovely gifts. The event was a complete sur
prise, and was enjoyed by all who attended.
Miss Madarang attended a concert in
Seattle at the Orpheum Theater recendy.
Mrs. Peterson is back to work after a
two week illness. The Peterson family was
notified by Navy personnel of a “Citation”
their son, Brandt, received recently on his
tour of duty in Okinawa with the United
States Marine Corps. Letters of apprecia
tion of his service were written by his Com
manding Officers, in regard to his work as a
radio operator of KR6MB. (Small town
“kid” finally makes good.)
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Mrs. Rose Bailey Remeto has recently re
turned to work in the kitchen, after a
couple weeks of rest at home due to high
blood pressure.
This has been a month of meetings in
the Medical Record department. The first
of these was the monthly meeting of the
Tacoma Medical Record Librarians which
was held at Doctor’s Hospital. These
monthly meetings afford the opportunity for
all the Librarians in the Tacoma area to get
together and discuss any problems in their
respective departments and to discuss new
ideas in the Medical Record field. One of
the biggest problems facing the Medical
Record Departments is the release of charts
to doctors and other agencies for definite
length of time. Too often these charts be
come misplaced and are never returned. A
crack-down on policies of this type was
recommended and unanimous agreement
expressed.
Also this month, the employees of our
own Medical Record Department met to
discuss the problems in our own Depart
ment. We intend to hold these meetings
every two weeks from now on for the pur
pose of ironing out any rough spots and
problems that may come up.
Our Department played host, this month,
to the four student Medical Record Librar
ians from Providence Hospital in Seattle.
Sister Peter Oliviant, the school’s director,
accompanied the students to Tacoma where
they were given a tour of our hospital and
Tacoma General. All the students were im
pressed with the homey atmosphere of the
wards here at St. Joseph, especially our
Pediatric department. Our students will
have a chance to view the inner working of
Providence Hospital this spring when they
will visit the various hospitals in Seattle.
Now, it is time for spring cleaning and
the Seniors are busily hunting apartments,
getting to the down-to-earth business of
actually moving out, making way for the
incoming class of September. Seniors are
also busy preparing for the forthcoming
graduation. June 3rd is the date set for the
big occasion.
Miss Kerstin Larsson hand knit a beauti
ful cardigan which the class will raffle off.
Be sure to try your luck. Everyone wants
to be the lucky one.
Misses Giles, Trunnel, Ryser, Kerst, Hole,
Peat, Mullowney, Riveness, Antush and
Horae attended the SWAN’s workshop at
the University of Washington on February
17th. The theme was “Communication” and
this presentation was enthusiastically re
ceived. The ten representatives learned a
valuable lesson about the theme and they
are anticipating with pleasure the Spring
Convention in May.
The Annual Senior-Junior Prom will be
held at the Top of the Ocean May 11, 1962.
All are looking forward to it. The Junior
Class held a swimming function in the
month of February.
On February 8, 1962 the Freshmen re
ceived their caps in the lounge of the
Nurses’ Residence. Miss Donna Dugger,
student body president, assisted Sister
Martha Joseph with this ceremony. We con
gratulate these students and wish them lots
of luck. Miss Sandra Pelton was the recipi
ent of a scholarship from the 40 & 8 Vete
ran’s Group.
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the building. McCormick Place is a
New McCormick Place
ten-minute taxi or bus ride from the hotel
Physicians attending the 111th Annual
Meeting of the American Medical Associa
tion June 24-28 in Chicago will view over
700 exhibits and hear scientific papers in
the air-conditioned comfort of America’s
newest and most modem exposition center
—McCormick Place.
Doctors who attended the last Annual
Meeting held in Chicago—in 1956—have
unpleasant memories of extremely hot,
humid weather and poor facilities on the
old Navy Pier. Those planning to attend
the 1962 meeting are looking forward to
their first visit to the new $34,000,000 con
vention “city” on die lakefront which boasts
unobstructed exhibit areas, theaters, attrac
tive restaurants and lounges, shops, and
esplanades.
McCormick Place, located on Lake Mi
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of the Loop, is a huge, horizontal structure
three blocks long, a block wide and equal
to a ten-story building in height. It is fully
equipped to handle 30,000 people an hour
as they visit exhibits.
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in the principal section, roughly the area of
six football fields. Exhibitors are welcoming
the convenient arrangement whereby a
bain of railroad cars can run inside the
building on a special spur for unloading
equipment.
There is ample parking for everyone at
tending the meeting—exhibitors and others
area in the Loop.
Hotel rooms will be available for every
one. There are 45,700 hotel rooms for guests
in the central Chicago area, plus more than
100 hotels in and around the city.
The 1962 meeting will be the first in re
cent history in which it will be possible
to house the entire meeting—scientific ses
sions, scientific and industrial exhibits, sec
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Does Senator Kefauver
Suffer From An
Old Frontier Ailment
In Daniel Boone’s day, a frontiersman
who got his coonskin cap soaking wet
often suffered a malady known as
shrinking of the brain.
One of the most important lessons taught
to soldiers is that at all times during strife,
they must protect their flanks at any cost.
If they don’t the enemy will encircle them
and take them from the side or the rear.
It now appears that this is exactly what
Senator Kefauver is trying to do to the
medical profession — encircle its flanks —
by sponsoring the Kefauver-Celler Bill.
This legislation is designed to place vir
tually all the drug industry under govern
ment direction. If this occurs, it will be a
giant step in the ultimate plan to bring all
medical men “into line” under government
domination.
The Bill ( S-1552, H.R. 6245) calls for
many so-called safeguards for the people.
The public, states Mr. Abraham Ribicoff,
Secretary of Health, Education and Wel
fare, are “treated worse than hogs by the
drug industry.” If the bill is passed, Mr.
Ribicoffs agency will control the drug
industry.
The fact that the United States has the
highest health standards and the most ad
vanced medicines and treatments is con
veniently overlooked by Mr. Ribicoff.
Maybe he should have stayed in Connecti
cut and harassed its automobile owners,
something he admittedly did well.
One of the most important provisions of
this Bill is the reduction from 17 years to 3
years of the patent protection now allowed
to the drug industry. “This reduction in
patent life will stimulate competition and
give the small manufacturer a better
chance,” quotes Senator Kefauver blandly.
This tidy bit of reasoning might lead one
to believe that the senator’s coonskin cap
shrank the last time he stayed out in the
rain and it’s pinching his brain. Or maybe
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he’s got it on backwards and can’t see
through the tail.
“You are known by the company you
keep,” so the saying goes. A prime example
of exotic witnesses dredged up by Senator
Kefauver in support of his bill is a pro
fessor who states that he is disappointed in
the “conservative nature” of the patent pro
vision of the bill. He would like to see
patents completely done away with for the
drug industry. This would, he says, be con
sistent with the majority of nations cited in
the Kefauver committee reports.
The irrevelant fact that the United States,
under the present system, has produced far
more and far better drugs than any other
nation in the world evidently escapes the
learned prof. His philosophy would appear
to be that rather than helping others to
attain our health status, we should reduce
ours to their level. This is the same type of
reasoning used by Lord Cardigan when he
ordered the famous charge of the “Light
Brigade.” His Lordship disregarding orders
and advice from others in a better position
to know the real facts, ordered his men into
the “valley of death." The fact that he led
them himself did nothing to prevent their
death.
Senator Kefauver would also like to see
generic names rather than brand names
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used in all prescriptions. This would sound
the death knell of brand name drugs, as
we know them. The senator has overlooked,
deliberately or otherwise, the fact that
brand names are an unusually successful
device for supplying better-than-average
products to the consumer. Furtherm ore, a
person can rely on a branch name product
because he knows that the company stands
behind it on all points.
Remove or reduce the brand name and it
opens profitable avenues for all sorts of
fringe manufacturers to supply their cutrate and cut-quality products to druggists
for resale to the public. As a m atter of
fact, the American brand name idea has
proved so successful that the Chinese Com
munists have borrowed it and are selling
many brand name products such as “Far
Reaching” wine and “Heaven Temple”
canned fruit. I would hesitate to say that
the Communists are smarter than Senator
Kefauver but at least they know a good idea
when they see one.
W riting prescriptions by their generic
name, instead of by brand name, would
probably save money for the patient in
some instances. But extensive tests have
proven that the same combination of drugs,
compounded by different companies does
not produce the same effect. I don’t know
about Senator Kefauver, but I certainly
want to know that when I go to the drug
store for a refill on a prescription, I will
get the e x a ct medicine my doctor pre
scribed. (A t best, this would be question
able if written by generic name. W hy take
chances when there is no need?)
To succeed in having his bill passed,
Senator Kefauver does not need much co
operation or even popular backing. All he
needs is no opposition and the apathy of
the medical profession. The man on the
street knows little or nothing about the
bill or its consequences to American health
standards. Doctors must speak out. It is
urgent that you state your views of oppo
sition to the Kefauver-Celler Bill. W rite
your Representative and Congressman.
Sure, you’re busy and it’s difficult to find
tim e but if you don’t take tim e now to
stand up for your rights ( and the rights of
others) you’ll find out one day soon that
tim e has run out.
At stake in this battle is the future of
the entire medical profession. Doctor, you
can’t afford to lose. Stand up and fight for
your right to practice medicine free from
interference. Do it now!
—Medical Society Magazine
Group Editorial Service
Longshoremen Outpatient
Coverage Clarified
Local longshoremen are eligible for out
patient care by their physicians under their
H ealth and W elfare plan. This provision,
eliminating the need for hospitalization to
authorize coverage, has been in effect for
the past few years but has actually been
used by only a few doctors. Therefore, offi
cials of the ILW U Local 23 urge doctors
to take advantage of this coverage for such
items as laboratbry tests, x-rays, care of
minor injuries, minor surgery, etc., when
ever possible. This will insure adequate
paym ent for these services when rendered
to an out-patient and also may help reduce
unnecessary hospitalization costs in certain
instances if both patient and doctor are
aware of this provision.
Know Your Congressmen
Here are the people to write to. Clip this
out and start writing letters. See Editorial
on page 10.
C o n g r e s s m a n T h o r C. Tollefson
H o u s e O ffic e B u ild in g
W a s h in g to n , D. C.
Se n a to r W a rre n G . M a g n u s o n
Se n ate O ffic e B u ild in g
W a s h in g to n , D . C.
Se n a to r H e n ry M . Ja c k so n
Se n ate O ffic e B u ild in g
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New Medical-Dental Bldg.; completely equipped;
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For information, building plan, call or write
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MEDICAL SPACES FO R REN T IN
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Two brand-new medical suites are now avail
able in new Lakewood Professional Village
building, suitable for part-time, full-time,
new Lakewood Hospital and Villa Plaza Shoping Center. Contact: Mitch Gasparovich, 3660
Tahoma Place, Tacoma 66. Phone SK 2-2033.
FOR SALE— INSTRUM ENTS— Half price or less,
mostly new, some used— Forceps, Retractors,
cutter, Bone drill, used Cameron Cautery and
Medcotherm. If interested, feel free to come
NORTH END CLOSE IN. Authentic English style
and central staircase. Large living room with
Cathedral ceiling, extra large dining room,
kitchen and nook. 3 bedrms. up. W /W car
peting up and down. Rec. room and bedrm.
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Call Swanson-McGoldrick Inc., BR 2-4138.
CLINIC SITE across from Mary Bridge Children's
Presently has three homes on the property,
can be sold as one property or individually.
Contact Harry Hotchkiss, R. E. Anderson &
ESTABLISHED, well-equipped medical center
has office space available for general special
ties and general practices. Low overhead.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 13
IS ELECTION D A Y
V O T E ! ! !
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AAAA AAeetina Theme
"Atomic Age AAedicine"
V -/
“Medicine in the Atomic Age” will be
the theme of the scientific program for the
111th Annual meeting of the American
Medical Association June 24-28 in Chicago.
Eminent physicians and research scien
tists from throughout the nation will bring
to the medical men in attendance the latest
word on developments and findings in re
search and in therapy in many of the major
disease areas confronting the physician in
practice.
The eight half-day general scientific
meetings are indicative of the broad scope
of the scientific program of the annual
meeting. General scientific meetings will
be presented on Inhalation Therapy; Clini
cal Cardiology and Anticoagulant Therapy;
Diagnostic Problems and Exfoliative Cyto
logic Methods; Tissue Transplantation; In
flammatory and Ulcerative Diseases of the
Small Intestine; Teenagers’ Problems; Men
tal Health, and Nuclear Medicine.
In addition, the Multiple Disciplinary
Research Forum, which proved so success
ful at the New York meeting for the first
time last June, will be repeated at the Chi
cago meeting.
All of the scientific and industrial exhibits
and all of the general meetings and meet
ings of the 21 sections will be held under
one roof for the first time. Site of the meet
ing will be Chicago’s giant new auditorium
and convention hall, McCormick Place,
newly opened on the shore of Lake Michi
gan a short distance south of the Loop.
Last Call For . . .
World's Fair Tickets
The Pierce County Medical Society order
will be sent in to Century 21 on March 9th.
So, if you intend to buy your tickets
through the Society . . . hurry . . .
hurry! No order will be acecpted after
Thursday, March 8th.
B U IK RATE
U. S. POSTAGE
PA ID
Tacoma 2, Washington
P E R M IT N o . 3 0 0
MONTHLY
MEETINGS
STAFF OF DOCTORS HOSPITAL O F TACOMA
Third Monday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—6:15 p.m.
Last Monday of February, June Septem ber and November
Board Room of Pierce County M edical Society
—8:15 p.m.
First Tuesday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—6:30 p.m.
Third Tuesday of each month—6:30 p.m. at Tacoma Club
Fourth Tuesday of each month—6 p.m. at Tacoma Club
First Thursday of each month except June, July and August
—6:00 p.m.
Third Friday of March, June, Sept., Dec.—7:15 a.m.
at New Yorker Cafe
Fourth Friday of March. June, Sept., Dec.— 12:15 p.m.
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TACOMA, WASH.
APRIL - 1962
m e e t in g
APRIL 10
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1962
O FFICERS
President __________ -................. -.....................G. M. Whitacre
President-Elect
............... -.........
— Stanley W. Tuell
Vice-President ...................... -.......... — Frederick J. Schwind
Secretary-Treasurer.............................- Arnold J. Herrmann
TRU STEES
John F. Comfort
John Shaw
Dale D. Doherty
Frederick J, Schwind
Robert M. Ferguson
Warren F. Smith
Arnold J. Herrmann
George A. Tanbara
George C. Kittredge
Stanley W. Tuell
Chris C. Reynolds
G. M. Whitacre
DELEG A TES
Douglas Buttorff
Stanley W. Tuell
Arnold J. Herrmann
G. M. Whitacre
George S. Kittredge
Wayne W. Zimmerman
ALTERN ATE D ELEG A TES
Robert W. Florence
Glenn H. Brokaw
Glenn G. McBride
Robert M. Ferguson
COM MITTEES
Ethics
Frank R. Maddison
Wendell G. Peterson
Grievance
J. W. Bowen, Jr.
C. B. Ritchie
Program
Dale Doherty
Orvis A. Harrelson
Public Relations
Robert M. Ferguson
Dale Doherty
Arnold J. Herrmann
John R. Alger
George A. Tanbara
Arthur P. Wickstrom
Library
Clinton A. Piper
Robert M. Ferguson
Robert E. Lane
Public Health
Orvis A. Harrelson
Robert C. Johnson
Cecil R. Fargher
Kenneth Graham
House and Attendance
Robert C. Johnson
Glenn H. Brokaw
Civil Disaster
David T. Hellyer
Leo F. Sulkosky
Charles E. Kemp
Arthur P. Wickstrom
Kenneth Graham
Robert D. McGreal
Diabetes
Robert H. Bias
Dudley W. Houtz
Entertainment
Robert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
Robert W. Osborne
Geriatrics
James E. Hazelrigg
Marcel Malden
Legislative
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. Harrelson
Douglas P. Buttorff
J. Hugh Kalkus
Medical Education
Max S. Thomas
Rodger S. Dille
Schools
Robert C. Johnson
Haskel L. Maier
John M. Kanda
R. A. Norton
M. E. Lawrence
Mental Health
M. R. Stuen
Harlan P. McNutt
Traffic and Safety
L. Stanley Durkin, Chairman
Robert M. Chambers
Poison Control
Bernard A. Bader, Chairman
Claris Allison
David L. Sparling
George A. Tanbara
Bulletin Staff
Editor ... ................................... .................... Stanley W. Tuell
Business Manager ------------------„ . J u d y Gordon
Auxiliary News E d ito r.............
Mrs. Bobert A. Kallsen
H ap- py
birth - day
to
you
Happy Birthday
AP RI L
1 LAW RENCE E. SKINNER
2 ED W IN ]. FAIRBOURN
W ILLIAM W. MATTSON, JR.
4 BERNARD D. HARRINGTON
5 CLIN TO N A. PIPER
7 EV ERETT P. NELSON
10 JAMES M. BLANKENSHIP
11 LAW RENCE BRIGHAM
12 CHARLES W. MAY
Z. JOSEPH VOZENILEK
15 LEO HUN T
DOUGLAS MURRAY
16 ROBERT W. OSBORNE
CHARLES G. TRIM BLE
20 JOHN F. COM FORT
21 HAROLD B. JOHNSTON
22 W ILLIAM E. AVERY
RICHARD T. DAVIS
24 EU G EN E W. HANSON
25 RODGER S. D ILLE
27 JOHN W. GULLIKSON
28 JAMES T. BOUDW IN
LOUIS P. HOYER, JR.
RICHARD B. LINK
29 A. W. H O W E
30 DONALD F. McKAY
OUR COVER . . . Space Needle seen
behind the General Insurance building
which will be an Inform ation Center dur
ing the Seattle W orld’s Fair. Cherry blos
soms are in bloom in the foreground.
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■format. The new front cover design, heav
ier paper and new, easier-to-read headline
print style, have attracted many local com
ments as well as a favorable letter from as
far away as Pennsylvania.
Thanks for this “new look” actually go
to our printer, Dammeier Printing Co., who
informed us that our old cover plate was
getting timeworn and spotty. We had drag
ged our feet at getting a new cover because
the process of preparing a new picture
plate was costly. However, Dammeier’s are
now using a process called “offset lithog
raphy” which is more economical. This,
along with a selection of photos from the
Tacoma Cham ber of Commerce and other
sources, including the Seattle World’s Fair,
led the way to the new Bulletin design.
Doctors Splurge on
Advance Fair Tickets
Don t get sick in Tacoma after April 21.
A doctor may be hard to find. At the re
duced rate available with advance orders
thiough the Society office, Pierce County
physicians ordered 2,870 adult admissions
to the W orld’s Fair, including 1,188 bonus
books which were sold at $5.85 for a $10.00
value. The kids will have their turn, too,
roi their doctor-daddies ordered 816 chil
dren’s admissions to the Fair.
The entire order sent to Seattle by Judy
executive secretary, amounted to
W,()J0.60 worth of tickets for admissions,
rides, exhibits and other events at the Fair.
Many additional requests came in too late
tor ordering. Sorry, the deadline is past for
further orders.
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Dinner:
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of the F i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e t y
A pril Calendar of M eetings
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Staff of Doctors
Hospital— 8 p.m.
3
T acom a O rthopedic
Society— 8 p.m.
Tacom a Acad, of
Psych. & Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
10
2
9
W ED N ESD A Y
4
11
Pierce C o u n ty
M e d ic a l
Socie ty
8 :15 P .M .
18
Tacom a Surgical
C lub—6:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
23
Pierce County
Academy of
G eneral Practice
6:30 p.m.
5
C.P.C. of Tacom a
Pierce County
Pediatric Society
6 p.m .
12
C.P.C. of Tacom a
17
16
THURSDAY
19
C.P.C. of Tacom a
25
24
Tacom a Academy
of Internal
M edicine
6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
26
C.P.C. of Tacom a
FRIDAY
6
C.P.C. of St.
13
C.P.C. of St.
20
P.C.M.B. Board
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Blandford W . Marley, Assistant Vice President and
Trust Officer, calls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Bennett to
explain how the bank’s Trust Department can be helpful to them.
Blandford W. Marley, Assistant Vice President and Trust Officer
of National Bank of Washington, has been in banking since 1927, many
years of which have been spent in the field of trust administration.
He divides his time between his desk at NBW and calling in
person at the homes or offices of trust and estate clients. His depth of
experience in financial and trust matters enables him to make sugges
tions or to guide people to specialists, so that a more complete estate
plan can be formulated to carry out family purposes and tax saving.
Counseling with people is his specialty.
Marley is typical of the well-informed, experienced personnel in
the Trust Department of National Bank of Washington. If you have
any questions, why not telephone him at the Main Office . . . he’s a
man you can trust with your trust affairs.
M E M B E R FE D E R A L
D E P O S IT IN S U R A N C E C O R P O R A T IO N
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o f th e
President's Page
Government medicine may be staved off for the present if all
of us who realize its shortcomings will write to Congress and influence
our friends to do the same. If every patient over 65 realized that
under the proposed King-Anderson Bill he would have to pay $110
plus his physician's bill out of his own pocket for the first nine days
in the hospital, he wouldn’t be so keen about voting for the “free ride.”
As in the past, however, if this Bill is defeated or not brought
to a vote, other attempts will be made by the administration to
insinuate itself into medical care. We must have a positive written
plan which will guarantee that those unable to pay will get good
care. In our own area, we feel that this is already true through the
care of marginal patients at Mountain View General Hospital and
reduction in charges, where indicated, by private physicians. The
latter is not spelled out, however, and the patient doesn’t always know
what he is getting into financially.
We must have extension of prepaid health insurance to cover
hospitalization of people 65 and over. Our local Bureau is now consideiing such a plan. A committee of our Medical Society under
Dr. Osborne is studying the use of Kerr-Mills funds locally. King
County Medical Society is starting a program whereby patients over
65 will be tieated by physicians of the community and will pay for
these sej vices according to their ability as judged by a screening
committee. Physicians sign up voluntarily to accept these patients.
With such definite, positive programs (prepaid insurance, KerrMills implementation, and voluntary fee reduction where indicated),
adequately publicized, government-sponsored medicine should have
little appeal.
— G . M . W h i t a c r e , M .D .
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A news item and an editorial in the Tacoma Labor Advocate
recently charged—by direct implication—that some Tacoma doctors
had turned in statements for fees for services that they had not ren
dered, under the Union’s Health and Welfare Plan for its members.
A straightforward but courteous letter of denial of this by our Presi
dent, Marshall Whitacre, brought a partial retraction and an apology
in the pages of the Advocate.
Currently, the insurance blank for patients under the Union’s
Health and Welfare Plan has stapled to it a slip of paper with the
word “NOTICE” printed in large red letters at the top. It instructs
the patient to have his doctor fill out the blank and enclose his
itemized statement. Then it states, also in red letters, “Check care
fully to see if all services listed have been received. If not, contact
or phone LUKE JQINETTE (capitals his), Administrator, at
BR 2-3266.”
Though the harmful implication he makes to the union member
is obvious, I am confident that there will not be a single report that
could arise from intentional padding of a bill by any Pierce County
physician.
Perhaps if mr. joinette (small letters ours) is so receptive to
reports of fees charged for services not rendered, he would also
like to have reports on all services rendered for which no fee is
chaiged, such as courtesy to the patient, attentiveness, willingness
to explain the patient s diagnosis and treatment to him, kindness
and gentleness in handling of the patient, and sympathy and patience
in listening to the patient s complaints. I am sure we, and our patients,
could flood his office with reports of this nature that are never in
cluded in our itemized list of services on the insurance blank.
Our willingness to continue to render the above non-fee services
constitutes one of our important defenses against implied charges
of this type. Use it to the best of your ability in your relationships
with each patient and it will make the union member who is your
patient much less vulnerable to the influence of such red-lettered
warnings.
—S.W.T.
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of the
H O S P IT A L S
Tacoma General
We had our first disaster drill on March
14. This was the result of much planning
and work. A simulated bus accident
brought 19 “casualities” to the emergency
room in the afternoon. Dr. Arthur P. W ick
strom was the medical coordinator. Stu
dent nurses played the role of “casualties”,
distraught friends and relatives and also
news photographers and reporters. After
the drill, a cirtique was held in Jackson
Hall to discuss the good and bad points of
this event. All agreed it was a worthwhile
experience and that it should be tried again
soon.
Mrs. Lucille McDonald, O.R. supervisor,
attended the national convention of her
professional group in Denver. It was the
annual meeting of the Association of O per
ating Room Nurses.
Medical Records has completed its move
into Jackson Hall. It was necessary for them
to vacate their old quarters because that
area will be used for the new temporary
entrance to the hospital.
The new flatwork ironer for the laundry
arrived on March 20. It is of the latest
design with eight rollers. It replaces the
old one which was damaged in the fire last
November.
St. Joseph's
M is s in g B o o k s M e d ic a l S ta ff
Library
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Medical Physiology and Biophysics:
18th Ed., By Ruch and John F. Fulton.
Medical Licensure Examination: 8th
Ed., By Rypins.
Medical Examination Review BookVol. I.
A Textbook of Histology: 7th Ed., By
Maximow.
Practical Physiological Chemistry: 13th
Ed., By Hawk.
A Textbook of Pharmacology: 7th Ed.,
By Wright.
Signs and Symptoms: 3rd Ed., By McBrvde.
Peripheral Vascular Diseases: 2nd Ed.
By Allen.
Clinical Hematology: 4th Ed., By
Maxwell.
Su rge ry
The February A.O.R.N. meeting held
here, was thoroughly enjoyed by a large
group of nurses from surrounding areas.
Sisters prepared a wonderful assortment of
food for a buffet. Dr. Robert Chambers was
our guest speaker for the evening. His topic
of discussion was “Back Pain”. A big
“Thank You” to all the Sisters for a very
entertaining evening.
Mrs. Thomas is on vacation in California.
During her absence Miss Dugger, S.N., is
working here in O.R. and we appreciate her
presence, since it’s rather quiet without any
students.
It’s a boy for Mrs. Renee Ezell. Con
gratulations.
Surgery had a good representation at the
W hite Mass at Saint Martin of Tours
Church on March 18. Breakfast at the
Poodle Dog Restaurant is always good, but
it was made especially enjoyable by the
presence of the guest of honor, his Excel
lency, Archbishop T. Connolly.
W elcome to Dr. Robert Voynow who has
joined our staff of anesthesiologists. He
comes to use from Virginia Mason Hospital
in Seattle.
R e co rd R o o m
The most recent hum an endeavor achiev
ed by the record departm ent has been the
publishing of the Evergreen Bulletin for
the W ashington Association of Medical
Record Librarians. News of interest is sent
in from throughout the state by members
of the Medical Record profession. It is the
job of our departm ent to compile all of this
news into a well organized bulletin, type
it on stencils, and publish it. It is no easy
task, as the personnel in our department
can well testify. The fruits of our labor were
well worthwhile for the Bulletin proved to
be one of the finest so far published. It
looks as if St. Joseph may yet make its
mark in the literary world. We learned
many valuable secrets in regards to journal
ism and publishing from this endeavor.
The monthly meeting of the Tacoma
Medical Record Librarians was held this
month at the N orthern Pacific Hospital.
As is usually the case, the topic of discus
sions were mainly concerned with coding
problems.
On Friday, M arch 16, 1962, Sister Em
manuel and Sister Helene attended the
Disaster Program Luncheon for Pierce
County sponsored by Civil Defense Repre
sentatives from all the hospitals in Tacoma,
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therapy w as discontinued. The p atient's hands were
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plus representatives from the Tacoma Po
lice and State Patrol attended die dinner.
Ways and means of taking care of local
disasters were discussed at this informative
program. W e all hope that the occasion will
never arise when we will have to use this
program, but it is good to know that we
will be ready if the need arises.
Sc h o o l o f N u r s in g
It has been many months since all of our
Senior Students have been together. Now
that our affiliations are finished we are
planning some get-togethers for the future.
We have one new member, Mrs. Rafferty,
and we hope she’ll finish as one of us “Sen
ior” Grads.
Many of the Senior Class are now quoteapart dwellers. Every year at this time the
Senior students who are able to move out,
do so, to help make room for spring clean
ing and new rooms for the Junior Class.
They seem to like it so well, I doubt if
they’ll want to move back in.
In two short months we will have our
graduation ceremonies. To prepare, we
Seniors got together and decided to choose
a uniform style for this occasion. All we
have left now is to be fitted, do the prelim
inary paperwork, graduate and finish the
remaining time until September.
On March 3 we had a fabulous “Twist
Dance”. It was a huge success due to the
fact that we had such wonderful chaper
ones, Drs. Baskin and Pratt and their wives.
W e didn’t mind the backaches the follow
ing day.
On Thursday, March 15, Sister Eugene
and Mrs. Moe attended a workshop at
Cabrini School of Nursing. The theme
“Counseling”. Friday, March 16, the fac
ulty journeyed to Seattle to attend the An
nual Conference of Representatives of
Washington State Accredited Schools of
Professional Nursing. The main topic for
discussion was “Evaluation of Clinical Ex
perience”. Members returned home with
many new ideas.
Junior students are busily getting ready
for affiliations. How well will they like
them? This remains to be seen.
The Freshman Students will be back all
refreshed to start Spring Quarter March
26, after a week’s interim.
Pediatric N e w s
Students were bid a fond goodbye by the
staff on March 18. W e all enjoyed their
presence with us, and wish them well.
C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
M arch 25, m arked the arrival of the bal
ance of the senior students for their pedi
atric experience. W e hope they will enjoy
the little ones.
On M arch 22, we had a practice and
demonstration on closed chest heart resus
citation presented by Doctors Pratt and
Tanbara.
The afternoon followed with a depart
mental meeting attended by the staff, A
farewell party was given in honor of Mrs.
Joslin who has taken a job at Madigan.
Mrs. Paul Stettin ( Barbara Zinski) is the
proud mother of Carl Thomas a 6 lb, 14 oz.
bundle of joy born M arch 7.
New s
From
Second
Many of you m ust have wondered what
happened to the young lady who was ap
pointed to take charge of our Recovery
Room, or more correctly, our Post Anes
thesia Recovery Room, five and one-half
years ago. Mrs. Ruth Fowler, R.N., is the
nurse I’m referring to. She is now in South
Viet Nam with her husband, Darwin, who
got a fine position as a soil analyst with an
American company. W e received an eight
page letter from Ruth last week and she
graphically described her trip and her first
impressions of Saigon. W hen she arrived
there after a very strenuous air trip, the
tem perature was 90° plus. H er husband
met her and their young son at the airport
and took them to their nice apartment. She
has a very efficient cook and housekeeper,
who works from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and only
takes Sunday off. So that means that our
“top flight nurse” Ruth Fowler will be ter
ribly spoiled if this life-of-leisure should
continue for long. W e miss her very much
and hope when she gets tired of Viet Nam
she will return to St. Joseph Hospital, Sur
gical Floor. Don’t forget Ruth. Mrs. Viafore, R.N., who relieved Mrs. Fowler dur
ing vacations and illness has been carrying
on the fine job that Mrs. Fowler began way
back in 1956.
The rest of our people on second have
been kept on the move w ith our cranioto
mies, fusions, gastrics, etc. So long ’til
next month.
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P i e r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
A CASE FOR HALDRONE
{p a ra m e t h a so n e ac etate, L illy )
Haldrone is highly effective in suppressing the manifestations
of HAY FEVER and pollen allergies, even when administered
in low dosage. (Haldrone is approximately nine times as potent
as hydrocortisone in ACTH suppression tests in man.1) With
average dosage, only minimal changes occur in regard to
sodium retention or potassium excretion. Haldrone is compar
atively economical for your patients, too.
T h is is a re m in d e r a d vertise m e n t.
For ad eq u ate
info rm a tio n
lor use,
p le ase c o n s u lt m a n u fa c t u re r's liter
ature. E li L illy a n d C o m p a n y , In
S uggested d aily dosage in h ay fever:
In itia l su pp ressiv e dose . . 4-8 mg.
M ain ten a n c e dose . . . . 2-4 mg.
S upplied in b o ttle s of 30, 100, an d 500 ta b le ts.
1 m g., Yellow (scored)
2 m g., O range (scored)
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La b o ra to rie s.
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W O M A N ' S A U X IL IA R Y . . .
it was good news to get the picture
AUXILIARY OFFICERS—1961-62 Gatreat”,
Auxiliary’s March meeting.
P re sid e n t
____ ________________ M rs. K enneth E. Cross
Don Snyder from Sertoma Club gave
President-E lect .......— ___ ___M rs. H erm an S. Judd
members
a lot of interesting information of
1st V ice-President .... _______- ..............M rs. Philip G renley
2nd V ice-President .... ............................ M rs. R obert R. B urt
C-21, and a complete tour of the fair
3 rd V ice-President ... .......- ..............- M rs. W illiam Burrows
4th V ice-President .. .. ............. ............. M rs. D ale D oherty
grounds in slides, all of which looked stu
R ecording Secretary .............. . - Mrs. D udley W . Ilo u tz
pendous. One of the thoughts that had
C orresponding Secretary
- M rs. A rthur P. W ickstrom
T reasurer ......
—............................ M rs. H askel L. M aier
plagued us previous to this talk was that
A ssistant T reasurer ............................Mrs. G lenn H. Brokaw
perhaps, not being really wealthy, we
C O M M IT T E E C H A IR M EN
w ouldn’t see much at the Fair. Not so, says
A m erican M edical E ducation
F o undation ............................... .M rs. E lm er W . W ahlbery
Mr. Snyder.
N ational B u lle tin .........................................M rs. Jack M andeville
Civil D efense ...............
....M rs, R obert R. Burt
The Science Pavilion with over a hundred
H istorian
..................................... .M rs. Charles J. G albraith major exhibits, a 10-million dollar gift from
L egislative ........................................ Mrs. Sam uel E. A dam s
M em bership ......... ........................... M rs. G alen H. H oover and
M rs. M. E. L aw rence the federal government, is as free as any
Nurse R ecruitm ent .............................. M rs. G. W . Bischofl
thing the government “gives”, and it’s the
Param edical ......... ..................................... M rs. M vron A. Bass
P ro g ra m ..................... ... ............................. M rs. M. J. W icks largest scientific exhibit ever assembled. In
Publicity............................................... .. M rs. R obert C. Johnson
there you’ll see seven different films on life
B ulletin .......................................................M rs. R obert A. Kallsen
Revisions
...................... — Mrs, R ichard F. B arronian
sciences
simultaneously and continuously
Safety ............................................. M rs. R obert XV. O sborne shown on the world’s largest screen. The
Social . .........................................Mrs. R obert \V. F lorence and
Mrs. C harles P. Larson
Speakers B u re a u
..... ............ ... M rs. Philip Grenley W ashington state exhibit, the World of To
..............M rs. R ichard B. Link
T elephone ..........................
morrow, will show us how we will live the
T oday’s H e a lth
.......... ...........Mrs. B ernard R. Rowen
M inute W om en .... __ ________ M rs. G eorge A. R ace and next 3S years, free of charge. Thirty foreign
M rs. T hom as R. W est governments will have exhibits, the largest
C om m unity S e rv ic e
___ ... ..M rs, Orvis A. H arrelson
planned will be Canada’s huge building.
H e a rt................................................... Mrs. E dw ard R. A nderson
C ancer ......................................................... Mrs. J. R obert Brooke
The Commerce and Industry exhibits will
Finance ..........................................................M rs. J. R obert Brooke
C om m unity C o u n cil................... ... Mrs. John F. Steele show us cordless phones, buildings with
D ance
.......................
..
.. Mrs. John S. M ay and
Mrs. D avid F. Dye plastic skins instead of walls, keyless type
Fashion Show — .................................. M aybelle M iller and
M rs. Russell Q. Colley writers, and we'll walk into Nalley’s potato
Cook Book ... ...................... M rs. T hom as B. M urphy and
chip. No admission.
Mrs. R obert A. O ’Connell
Gay way tickets will be just 25c and 35c,
happily,
even for the space age tunnel of
Auxiliary will meet April 27th at Pat
The Monorail to and from the fair
Hoover's home for luncheon. This is the love.
grounds is gratis. The girlie shows on Show
fourth Friday in April, since our regular Street
will cost money, but Gracie Han
date, the third Friday, is Good Friday.
Parade should be worth seeing once,
Guest speaker will be Doctor John Phil sen’s
said the dressing room will be on stage.
lips, Professor of Religion at U.P.S., who it isThe
of Fashion is free, and there
will talk about the Family in Changing will beW orld
fashion shows there, and
Society. Doctor Phillips is assistant minister Revlon’s daily
e fountain spouting 4600
at Mason Methodist Church, teaches classes gallons ofperfum
perfume.
in marriage and serve as a marriage
Bazaars of the W orld will be off-limits
counselor.
we strike oil in a clam hole this
March coffee party at Delores Havlina's unless
summer.
Direct-im port shops will line that
home brought out many new members, and avenue, featuring
the outstanding merchan
some we hadn’t seen for so long we mistook dise trom just about
corner of the
them for new. Coffee party chairman Ruth earth . . . art objects,every
fabrics, curios, sil
Brooke and her committee, Eileen Rade- ver and china, jewelry, perfumes,
Another
maker, Edith Lawrence, Marilyn M ande
to stay out of is the Food Circus, since
ville, and Conja Klein, provided a wonder place
will be few if any free samples, and
ful brunch including many elegant partv there
fifty food specialty shops will tempt the
breads they had made themselves.
big spenders and the hungry.
If it isn’t raining, one might just sit and
Solace for Skeptics
To those of us who have viewed the watch the fountain in the center of the
whole business of Century 21 with a jaun fairgrounds. It’s rigged with three hundred
diced eye, who felt it just couldn’t be “That
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thousand electronically controlled spouts
to form continuously changing designs in
water. If it does rain, one might use one of
those bonus book tickets for the fine arts
exhibits, and go in and take a nap.
Best of all, and absolutely free. Carna
tion’s mechanical cow will fascinate the
kiddies with a true-to-life demonstration
of not just where milk comes from, but
“How It Is Made.”
Don Snyder admitted to the Auxiliary
ladies that the traffic problem will be awful,
that the parking situation will be worse,
and we in Tacoma would be clever to leave
our cars at home and take the bus.
Tacoma and C-21
Tourists who lose their way and find
themselves in Tacoma this summer will also
find a welcoming committee, some helpful
information and some local talent on ex
hibit, thanks lots to busy Auxiliary member
Kay Anderson.
Kay Anderson and a few others stayed
with the Allied Arts idea of a hospitality
center for C-21 for a long time when no
body else did. This stickwithitness has paid
off. This month the building will open,
by virtue of a most amazing community
effort.
Allied Arts and member agencies will fill
two floors of the Allied Arts building on
Pacific Avenue with exhibits publicizing
the Tacoma area, a Tacoma housing and
information center with direct lines to
Expo-Lodging and Paradise Lodge, a head
quarters for boat and bus tours, a photo
lab, child care facilities, ticketing agencies,
snack bar, garden club and Northwest art
exhibits.
Bar Meeting
Bar Auxiliary President Rosemary O’Hern
has invited all of us Medical Auxiliary
members to the Bar Auxiliary’s annual fun
luncheon meeting at the Doric on April 26.
It’s a white elephant lunch, everyone who
remembers to bring something that’s nice
but not needed, and these things are auc
tioned. As Rosemary says, “It’s a meeting
that’s very little business and lots of fun,
and we’ll enjoy having all of you visit,
please comes.” The social hour is at twelve
noon, and reservations are made by calling
Mrs. Wm. Rohrs, at SK 9-5359.
Mid-year Conference
Jeanne Judd reported on the State Aux
iliary’s mid-year conference at March meet
ing, that the whole meeting centered on
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Legislation, and high point of the meeting
was Wayne Zimmerman’s talk. His compari
son of medical services with consumer’s
product, and what happens when compe
tition and incentive are lost, evidently gave
the delegates something to think about, and
something to take home for their Auxili
aries to talk about. Jeanne said that in
spite of the great amount of interest, very
few of our members have signed up for
AMPAC memberships. Lorraine Adams
will gladly receive your $20.00 and send
you a card.
For the Calendar
Ruth Brooke is selling tickets to Presi
dent's Council Breakfast on May 17. Fabu
lous Mrs. John Wagner will talk on Quality
Education, and since she and her husband
leave Tacoma in June, this may be her last
speaking engagement here. Tickets are
$1.50.
May 18 is the date of Auxiliary’s annual
Dance. This is a Friday evening, members
can still hop in their boats and weekend it
without missing this party.
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MEMORI AM
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flowering shrub, it was always preceded by
a carefully drawn sketch and diagram.
There is no doubt that Steve’s deeds made
our community a better place in which to
live and the medical segment of our com
munity respected beyond its geographic or
social confines.
— K e n n e t h E. G r o s s , M.D.
“Milton
NOTE—There has been established at
Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital a Mem
orial Fund in the name of Dr. S. S. Sander
son—the funds to be used for other than
operating expenses.
—K.E.G.
IN
MEMORI AM
Stevens S. Sanderson
It is with deep and sincere regret that
the sudden, unexpected death of Stevens
S. Sanderson is brought to the attention of
this Society. Steve was a member of num
erous professional and scientific societies
like so many of our County Medical So
ciety members, but among our radiologists,
he was the only Fellow of the American
College of Radiology in our city—a fact of
which he was justifiably proud.
Steve practiced as a radiologist in Ta
coma for twenty-one years, coming here to
enter practice with Doctor Fischell, who
had already established a radiological prac
tice in this community. Steve’s high stand
ards of personal and professional character
were well known, but it was his fair deal
ing which exemplified the motivations of
his life so that he won the admiration and
affection of all the lives he touched. His
compassion for those in trouble prompted
him in his quiet way to support what he
knew to be right and fair. He was coura
geous in this fight for what he believed to
be just in his profession, his religion, and
in society, without limitation by any fixed
pattern.
“When there is much desire to learn,
there of necessity will be some argument,
some writing; many opinions; for opinions
in good men is but knowledge in the mak
ing.”" This is how it was to practice with
Steve, for he willingly accepted new pro
cedures while constantly retaining his capa
city for understanding with deep faith the
progress of medicine and humanity.
Apart from medicine his greatest pleas
ure was “planning”, whether it was a piece
of hi-fi equipment, a new home, a “pre
dicted log race”, or planting of a new
William J. Rosenbladt
The following letter was written by Dr.
William J. Rosenbladt to his pastor on
February 28, 1962—eight days before his
death. It is published in the interest of his
vast host of friends and colleagues who re
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of faith from this man of God.
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by the one who has died. It was my priv
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itself and I hope that it may inspire all of
us to a deeper and richer life in the Saving
Christ.
R e v . R u e b e n H. R e d a l
Central Lutheran Church
Tacoma, Washington
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.
Dear Pastor and beloved friends in Christ,
I must write you and tell you some of
my feelings and some experiences I have
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YW C A To Show M ovie
A film, “Hospital Maternity Care Family
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had, because it might move someone to
greater faith or closer association with God
and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
As you know, I am facing an event of
great importance in my life, namely sur
gery on die heart. This type of surgery has
a known calculated hazard. In the attempt
to remake or replace the valve structure
within the heart with a plastic one, there
are situations and mechanisms more com
plicated than that of the man-in-space
program.
I am looking forward to this with great
est anticipation and with no fears. Certainly
I know that this could be the event that
separates body and soul. W hat a glorious
event, to cast off a rusty, deteriorating body
and gain eternal life in a glorious home in
the everlasting presence of Almighty God,
upon whose right hand sits Christ Jesus;
the very One to whom I have been talking
night after night, day after day, year in
and year out; the One with whom I spend
the hours, when I waken in the middle of
the night and am disturbed about a desper
ately ill patient, or a problem, and finally,
perhaps hours later, drop off to sleep again,
knowing that all is well, because God has
heard me and is omnipresent.
And yet, if this is not the hour that God
has chosen for me to cast off the shell,
then for the first time in over forty years I
will have the joy of living like my fellow
man. Not that this joy is important. It has
little value. But that God will have given
me the great privilege of continuing to
serve, obey and worship Him here for a
time yet. And that I may serve Him by
serving His people with the talents that I
have acquired by His grace.
I have known that I would soon be pre
sented with technical information and ad
vice and asked to make my own decision
as to whether I wanted heart surgery. At
first I had thought there might be some
difficulty in making this decision, but this is
not true. God is merciful and almighty;
there is nothing He cannot do. He created
the heaven and earth. If He could create
them, certainly He has perfect and com
plete control of all things there-in.
For many years since childhood I have
prayed to God for many things, big and
small. Nor can I remember even one in
stance when prayer has not been answered.
But among all these prayers there has al
ways been one for healing a heart badly
damaged by rheumatic fever. These heart
valves have gradually, over the years, in
creasingly lost their function and failure is
impending. I have known since mid-Octo
ber that total deterioration is perhaps less
than three years away, statistically
speaking.
Suddenly and within a week comes the
answer to almost a lifetime of prayer. Un
beknown to me, only eighteen months ago
a young heart surgeon only thirty-two years
of age developed a remarkably simple plas
tic valve, usable for the replacement of the
one like mine, that has been rapidly fail
ing. To insert this valve is a highly techni
cal procedure that requires five hours or
more, a large number of pints of blood for
the artificial heart machine, and a highly
trained team of fifteen or twenty doctors,
not the least of whom is the doctor who
developed the plastic valve. During the
first few months, these were inserted in
animals and later in almost hopeless cases
of humans. The results began to be encour
aging until last month, fifty cases were
done here with only one death and he was
an exceedingly poor-risk patient.
Surely this must be the answer to many
years of praying for somediing so big that
one lacking in faith wouldn’t even dare to
ask for it. Now I have the real answer to
why I had no difficulty in making the deci
sion to accept heart surgery, and why I
have no fear, even though I have personal
and technical knowledge of all the compli
cations that can occur.
To reject this, it seems to me, would be
to ask for something and then reject it
when it is granted,
Yours in Christ,
God be with you all,
“D r . B ell ” R o s e n b l a d t
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F i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie ty
Dates To Circle on
Your Calendar
DO CTO R-LAW YER D IN N E R . . .
Friday, M a y 11
DOCTOR-DENTIST FIELD D A Y . . .
Friday, June 22
Both Events W ill Be at . .
FIRCREST GOLF CLUB
N om inees W anted For
State Physician A w a rd
An attractive plaque will again be pre
sented this year to an outstanding member
physician of the W ashington State Medical
Association “in honor of his significant con
tribution to civic activities and wide
spread interest in public affairs.” Sugges
tions for candidates for the award are be
ing solicited from County Medical Societies
throughout the State, according to a memo
randum to Dr. G. M. W hitacre, local Presi
dent, from Dr. W illard B. Rew, State Asso
ciation President.
The purpose of the award is to gain fur
ther publicity in the effort to “improve and
enlarge a warranted favorable image of the
American physician.” The award is made
available by the A. H. Robins Company for
the second consecutive year, last year’s
plaque having been awarded to Dr. A. O.
Adams, Representative in the State Legisla
ture from Spokane.
Any suggestions for local candidates for
this year’s award should be sent to Dr.
W hitacre or turned in at the Society office
in the Medical Arts Building, along with
the necessary data to support your
nomination.
BEALL’S
124 Meridian South
PUYALLUP
W orld's Fair M a y Fold!
(AND IT’S ALL OUR FAULT!)
If the whole Century-21 project decides
to fold up and call it quits before opening
date rolls around, don’t blame it on high
winds or price-gouging. It’ll more likely
be due to the mighty power of the press—
namely your own Medical Society Bulletin.
If the W orld’s Fair doesn’t actually col
lapse, at least we’ve created a fair degree
of shaking and creaking in its organiza
tional structure.
Peering out from beneath his green visor,
the editor ( I just can’t bring myself to say
your editor) gave a nervous tug at his
sleeve garters and sent ace reporter, Judy
Gordon, out on a hot assignment: “Find
out how and w here doctors can sign in at
the Fair for receiving emergency calls from
home.”
W illing and eager, Judy started by calling
the Tacoma Cham ber of Commerce to ask
if there would be a message center at the
Fair where doctors could leave their names.
They said there would of course have to be
one and to call Mr. Rocky in the Public Re
lations D epartm ent of Century-21 in Seat
tle, so she did. Well, the Public Relations
D epartm ent said Mr. Rocky wasn’t in but
they’d switch the call to Mr. Shumacker
who would know about that sort of thing.
Mr. Shumacker wasn’t in but the girl said
was there something she could do and Judy
said yes, probably she could — that she
w anted to know if there would be a mes
sage center at the Fair where doctors could
leave their names, etc., and the girl said
she was sure there would be but to hold
on and she would switch the call to Mr.
Shumacker’s secretary. Judy held on and
Mr. Shumacker’s secretary said that yes,
there would surely be a place like that but
the First Aid D epartm ent would be where
they’d know and to hang on and she would
switch the call there, which she did. The
First Aid lady said she didn’t know but, just
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a minute, luckily Dr. Rice happened to be
in the office right then and he could tell
her about that, so our reporter said PUT
HIM ON. Dr. Rice said there would of
course be an arrangement for such things
but that this would come under the De
partment of Operations and Services and
to call Mr. Shumacker who wasn’t in
(which we already knew) and to call him
back later. Well, contact was made with
Mr. Shumacker after he got back from
his three-hour lunch and he said, YES,
there would be a message center for physi
cians but that this would come under the
Guest Relations Department or possibly the
Information Center which he thought
would be in the General Insurance Building
or the Armory, probably.
So when you get to the Fair this sum
mer, there may or may not be a doctors’
check-in station. Perhaps your best bet will
be to step into the nearest phone booth
and spend a dime to call the Seattle num
ber of our own Doctors’ Exchange, TAylor
4-2674.
A Gal Is a G a l, Is a G al,
In some circles there seems to be a con
flict between the term “woman” and “lady”
and one writer states: “In one widely ac
cepted view, ‘woman’ suggests common
ness, if not vulgarity, while lady’ suggests
breeding and refinement.”
Those who believe the term “lady” ap
plies most appropriately to the legal spouse
of a knight or one of higher rank also
must appreciate the basic quality of
womanhood. Possibly less elegant than
‘ladylike”, “womanly” represents as high
praise as can indeed be bestowed upon the
female of the species. “Ladies,” on a differ
ent plane, suggests “gents” and both suggest
railroad stations.
It is of interest that tides such as “woman’s
club” and “woman’s alliance” are accepted
without qualms by their members. This, of
course, brings us to the subject at hand,
namely the Woman’s Auxiliary to the
Pierce County Medical Society. (There are
even those who question the singular in
the title). This organization is now in its
thirtieth year, and believe it or not, is
among some of the oldest in the nation.
When the Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Pierce County Medical Society was estab
lished, it was designated to serve as a work
ing group dedicated to serving the Medical
Society in its program for the advancement
of the “public health and welfare” (bad
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terminology now). Physicians’ wives were
recognized as a vital, potent force which
could help present to the public the aims
and objectives of medicine in a free society.
This importance of the Auxiliary to the
medical profession has increased over the
years as have the problems now confront
ing organized medicine. Women (“the
ladies”, gentlemen) have a way of making
themselves heard and of making their in
fluence felt—of getting things done! The
Woman’s Auxiliary to the Pierce County
Medical Society has already proved itself.
Its members have made tiiemselves heard,
their influence has been considerable, and
their accomplishments are many over the
thirty-year period of their staunch support.
During the next few weeks, the WOman’s
Auxiliary to the Pierce County Medical
Society will be asking that all members of
the Medical Society support the dance to
be held on May 18th—a dance which was
originally given by the Medical Society
and now is provided by the Medical Auxil
iary for the Medical Society. This is a dance
which is limited to die medical family and
the proceeds from which go toward the
Medical Auxiliary’s support of the Medical
Society’s endeavors.
In order that the Auxiliary may become
even stronger and more influential, each
physician member of the Society is urged
to urge his respective “lady” to join it, sup
port it, participate in its important activi
ties, and attend this fund raising and funproducing activity on May 18th.
Don't Resist That Urge!
If you get the urge to tell your colleagues
they . . . charge too much, charge too
little, shouldn’t drive Cadillacs, are too selfrighteous, should carry more insurance, eat
too much, should cut their toe-nails square,
or if you just want to explain to them why
pushing both the “up” and “down” buttons
at the hospital elevator actually gets them
to their floor slower than pushing just one
button . . . go ahead, sound off!
It’s your Bulletin, and guest editorials are
welcome. Type up arough copy of your
ideas (please, none of your lousy hand
writing) and drop it off with Judy at the
Medical Society office, or hand it to me in
the hospital hall.
It’ll go into the Bulletin over your name
(no advertising, please). We reserve the
right to reject any material, but in general,
if it’s appropriate for the Bulletin, you’re
an author.
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A n n u al Internist M ee tin g
The 12th Annual M eeting of the Tacoma
Academy of Internal Medicine drew 125
registrants at its morning and afternoon
sessions at Jackson Hall on M arch 3rd. At
the morning meeting, case reports were
read by G. M. W hitacre, Robert E. Lane,
Rodger S. Dille, Marcel M alden and Ralph
Huff—the last reading a report for Jim
Fairbourn. Each paper was discussed by
the visiting panel of experts, Dr. Travis
Winsor, Director of Cardiovascular Re
search at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los
Angeles; Dr. Thomas Stamey, Chief, Divi
sion of Urology, Stanford University School
of Medicine and Dr. W alter Kvale, Consul
tant in Internal Medicine at the Mayo
Clinic.
In the afternoon, these three dis
tinguished guests presented interesting pa
pers individually.
Highlight of the day’s program was the
evening dinner meeting at the Capri Room
of the Doric Motel, with Academy Presi
dent, Robert Kallsen, presiding. A certifi
cate of membership was presented to new
member, Marion Larsen. Dr. Winsor con
cluded the annual meeting with an ad
dress on the cause and treatm ent of hyper
tension. He presented various theories of
the etiology of hypertension, concluding
that the etiology was probably on a very
complex neuro-humoral basis. Therapy
aimed at reducing high blood pressure is
definitely a worthwhile endeavor, for it
does reduce the incidence of sequelae and
increases survival. This was true “even in
the days of Smithwick.” Of the various
drugs now useful in treatm ent of the hyper
tensive, Dr. Winsor prefers Apresoline pre
ceded by a period of preparation with
Reserpine. The dosage is small initially,
then gradually increased. The address was
illustrated widi color slides and an inter
esting movie of the blood flow in capillaries
and arterioles.
1 0 1 2 HOUR HUNGER CON TROL W ITH
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NO R E P O R T E D C O N T R A I N D I C A T I O N S
TENUATrDOSPAN
Whitacre Loses . . .
N e w C ham p s Crowned
In Table Tennis Meet
The Big H andicap proved to be the win
ner in last m onth’s Pierce County Medical
Society H andicap Table Tennis Tourna
ment. James Monfore, intern from Moun
tain View General Hospital, was the new
singles champion. H e eliminated the former
singles champion, M arsh Whitacre, with a
small assist from a handicap differential of
18. Then, with the same silent partner, he
managed to squeak through with two nar
row margin victories over Charlie Galbraith
and George Tanbara, though each of the
last two was closing in fast at the end of
his respective game. The new champ, with
his handicap, proved to be about as un
beatable in table tennis as George Kunz
was a few years back w ith his handicap in
the doctors’ golf tournament.
G albraith and W hitacre emerged as
doubles champions, but had to out-ping
Tanbara and Tuell twice during the eve
ning to make the grade. There were five
tables in action most of the evening and 34
doctors competed, taking time out for the
dinner and staff meeting of Tacoma Gen
eral Hospital. The handicap committee
(the one with secret mem bership) will re
view and re-adjust handicaps between now
and the next tournament, so that everyone
who enters will have a fair chance of win
ning one of the engraved plaques that go
to the winners. The next all-Society clash
is scheduled for Tuesday, June 5, again in
the basement of Jackson Hall, the same
night as the next Tacoma General staff
meeting.
Iran, 3-D A n ato m y on
Surgical C lu b Program
Anatomical dissections will again be an
outstanding feature of this year’s annual
meeting of the Tacoma Surgical Club on
Saturday, May 5, and the guest speaker will
be a surgeon with an unusually interesting
background. Dr. Robert A. Wise is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University
of Oregon Medical School, and recently
served for two years as Director of Surgery
at the University of Shiraz. Dr. Wise was
Chief of Surgery at the Veterans’ Hospital
in Portland from 1946 to 1959.
An added feature running concurrently
with the Saturday morning anatomical
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demonstrations to be held in the basement
of Jackson Hall, will be a stereoscopic pres
entation of the anatomy of the stomach by
Dr. David L. Bassett, Professor of Anatomy
FO R SALE BY OW NERS
REAL CH O ICE H O OD CANAL W ATERFRONT
at the University of Washington.
Dr. R. O. Diefendorf will preside over
the afternoon session where four scentific
papers will be given by members and Dr.
Wise will speak on Complications of Gas
NOW AT W IN TER PRICES W IT H AL
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MOST ANY TERMS. . . . CALL OR
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2-4228; Home, SK 2-8123; 2613 No. 21st,
Arthur P. Wickstrom and M. J. Wicks.
Tacoma, W ashington.
The evening session will begin with a
M EDICAL SPACE AVAILABLE
social hour followed by a banquet in the
TACOMA NORTH END
Crystal Ballroom of the Winthrop Hotel,
Bldg.; completely equipped;
with Dr. Gerald C. Kohl, Club President, New onM edical-Dental
arterial street; in well populated residen
presiding. Dr. Wise will give the main
address of the evening on “Surgical Experi
office with business office adjoining (2 ) pri
ences in Iran.”
There will be a registration fee of five
For
information, building plan, call or write
dollars.
Good Condition W ins
Football Games, Ow ens
Tells Medics
If you think you’ve got troubles trying
to fit your extra inches of waistline into
your old suit pants, ponder the plight of
some of Jim Owens’ footballers with 18inch necks wondering what to do with their
last year’s shirts with 16-inch collars.
The erect, affable and handsome foot
ball coach and athletic director at the Uni
versity of Washington told 80 doctors
slouched in well-padded seats at the March
Pierce County Medical Society meeting
that his program of neck exercises has
added an extra one to two inches of neck
muscle on most of his Huskies.
After an introduction by Stan Durkin,
Owens stressed the importance of both
mental and physical conditioning in turn
ing out a winning football team. The stren
uous neck development program is started
early in the Spring. Stair-running is an
other favorite exercise. Practices are plan
ned so that every man is kept busy at some
phase of mental or physical conditioning.
There is no ‘‘standing around.” The condi
tioning is effective in reducing the num
ber of injuries as well as in winning ball
games. Owens pointed out that in the en
tire 1959 season of 10 games, and the sub
sequent Rose Bowl game, Washington did
not call a single time-out on the field be
cause of a Husky being injured during play!
W n , days FU 3-3484 — eve. SK 9-7035.
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FOR LEASE— Suite ideal for G.P. in new brick
air-conditioned m edical-dental clinic. Share
lab and x-ray facilities with long established
G.P. W ould hope to exchange calls. Suburban
Portland. Available June 1. PR 4-1422.
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kitchen and nook. 3 bedrms. up. W /W car
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MEETINGS
ST A FF O F D O C T O R S H O S P IT A L O F T A C O M A
Second M o n d a y of M arch, June, Sept., Dec.— 7 :3 0 p.m.
A u d ito riu m of M e d ical A rts Bldg.
ST A FF O F G O O D S A M A R IT A N
Second M o n d a y of M arch, June, Sept., Dec.— 6 :3 0 p.m.
STA FF O F N O R T H E R N P A C IF IC
Second M o n d a y of each m onth— noon.
ST A FF O F ST. J O S E P H 'S
Third M o n d a y of M arch, June, Sept., Dec.— 6 :15 p.m.
STA FF O F M O U N T A IN V IE W G E N E R A L H O S P IT A L
Last M o n d a y o f February, June, Se p te m b e r and N o v e m b e r
T A C O M A A C A D E M Y O F P S Y C H IA T R IS T S and N E U R O L O G IS T S
First Tuesday of each m onth— 8 :30 p.m.
Board Room of Pierce C o u n ty M e d ical Society
T A C O M A O R T H O P E D IC S O C IE T Y
First Tuesday of each m onth— 8:00 p.m
PIERCE C O U N T Y M E D IC A L S O C IE T Y
Second Tuesday of the m onth except June, J u ly and A u q u st
— 8:15 p.m.
ST A FF O F T A C O M A G E N E R A L
First Tuesday of M arch, June, Sept., Dec.— 6 :3 0 d m
T A C O M A S U R G IC A L CLUB
Third Tuesday of each m onth— 6 :30 p.m. at Tacom a C lu b
T A C O M A A C A D E M Y O F IN T E R N A L M E D IC IN E
Fourth Tuesday of each m onth— 6 p.m. at Tacoma C lu b
PIERC E C O U N T Y A C A D E M Y O F G E N E R A L P R A C T IC E
Fourth M o n d a y of each m onth except June, Ju ly and A u q u st—
6 :3 0 p.m. at H o n an 's
PIERC E C O U N T Y P E D IA T R IC S O C IE T Y
First T h ursd ay of each m onth except June, Ju ly and A u q u s t—
6 :00 p.m.
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ST A FF O F M E D IC A L A R T S H O S P IT A L
Third Friday o f M arch, June, Septem ber, D ecem b er— 7:15 a.m.
at N e w Y o rk e r Cafe
STA FF O F M A R Y B R ID G E C H IL D R E N 'S H O S P IT A L
Fourth Friday of M arch, June, Sept., Dec.— 12:15 p.m.
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PIERCE C O U N T Y M E D IC A L SO C IETY
M AY
REGULAR M EETIN G
MAY 8
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O F F IC E R S
P resid ent
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P resid ent-E lect..........................................—
Stanley W . T uell
V ice-P resident ......................... F rederick J. Schw ind
birth - day
S ecretary-T reasurer.................................
A rnold
J . H errm ann H ap-py
you,
TRUSTEES
John F. C om fort
John Shaw
D ale D . D oherty
R obert M. F erguson
W arren F. Sm ith
H ap py Birthday
S tanley W . T uell
Chris C. R eynolds
G. M. W hitacre
DELEGATES
D ouglas B uttorff
Stanley W . T uell
G. M. W hitacre
W ayne W . Z im m erm an
A L TE R N A T E D E L E G A T E S
G lenn H . B rokaw
G lenn G. M cBride
R obert M. Ferguson
C O M M IT T E E S
E thics
F rank R. M addison
G rievance
C hris C. R eynolds, C hairm an
J. W . Bowen, Jr.
C. B. R itchie
Program
D ale D oherty
Orvis A. H arrelson
P u blic R elations
Robert M. Ferguson
D ale D oherty
John R. Alger
L ib rary
Tames M. B lankenship, C hairm an
C linton A. Piper
R obert M. Ferguson
R obert E. L ane
P ublic H ealth
Orvis A. H arrelson
R obert C. Johnson
Cecil R. F argher
K enneth G raham
H ouse and A ttendance
G alen H . Hoover, C hairm an
R obert C. Johnson
G lenn H . Brokaw
C ivil D isaster
T. R. H aley, C hairm an
D avid T . H ellyer
Leo F. Sulkosky
Charles E. Kemp
Kenneth G raham
R obert D . M cGreal
D iabetes
T heodore J. H . Sm ith, C hairm an
R obert H. Bias
D udley W . H outz
E n tertain m en t
R obert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
R obert W . O sborne
G eriatrics
Glenn H . Brokaw, C hairm an
M arcel M alden
L egislative
W ayne W . Zim m erm an, C hairm an
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. H arrelson
J. H ugh Kalkus
M edical E ducation
Max S. Thom as
R odger S. Dille
Schools
R obert C. Johnson
H askel L. M aier
John M. K anda
R. A. Norton
M. E. Law rence
M ental H ealth
M. R. Stuen
H arlan P. M cN utt
Traffic and Safety
Poison C ontrol
Claris Allison
K enneth G raham
Bernard A. B ader
C harles C. R eberger
Rodger S. D ille
G eorge T anbara
Allen Eagelson (A dvisory M em ber)
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Gershom C. R o w land , S en ior Vice President and Trust O fficer
fo r the 29 O ffice s of N ational Bank of W ashington.
Twelve years ago Gershom C. Rowland, a native Tacoman, left his gro w in g
law practice to join National Bank of W ashington as Vice President and Trust
Officer. Last year, he was named Senior Vice President and Trust Officer of
our Bank.
With his background, and with the experience he has acquired as a banker
in the field of administration, investments, and business management, Mr. Rowland
is highly qualified to guide trustees and beneficiaries toward more complete
fulfillment of the purposes of their trusts. Altogether, he is a valuable man to
know when a personal or corporate trust is being established!
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already know s Mr. Rowland, so he can tell you of the m any advantages of our
Bank's complete trust department. If there is som e function of our trust service
which you w ould like explained in detail, w h y not come in with your attorney
and discuss your plans with Gershom Row land . .
a man you can trust with
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M a y Calendar of M e e tin gs
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T acom a O rthopedic
Society— 8 p.m.
Tacom a Acad, of
Psych. & Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
TUESDAY
MONDAY
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C.P.C. of Tacom a
C.P.C. of St.
Pierce County
Pediatric Society
6 p.m.
2
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SOCIETY
( at M adigan
G eneral H ospital)
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C.P.C. of Tacom a
General— 8 :30 a.m.
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Tacom a Surgical
Club— 6 :30 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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M edicine
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C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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B U L L E T IN
o f the
President’s Page
The very active Public Relations committee under Dr. Gross has been
investigating means to better serve the community through various media
of communication.
A meeting with the editor and medical writer for the newspaper and a
director of a local radio station was held. The chief complaint the news media
have about the medical profession is the difficulty in contacting physicians—
plus the refusal of physicians to allow the use of their names. On the physicians’
side, the individual doctor is usually not aware of w hat is allowed by medical
ethics and rather than open himself for censure, he clams up. The Washington
State Medical Association has put out a booklet, accepted by the news media
and the State Association. W e are mailing a copy of this to each member
so that he will know w hat is allowable in dealing with the various news media.
Locally, when the paper or a radio station desires a “local angle” on a
medical story received over the wire or in any other way, it will be cleared
through the president of the Pierce County Medical Society. If the subject is
something which can be better handled by a physician other than the president,
it will be referred to that doctor. Thus, if Mr. Dumas from the Tribune calls
me and wants to know the local feeling about measles vaccine, I will refer
him to such-and-such pediatrician. However, before the paper calls that pedia
trician, I will have called him to obtain his consent to be interviewed and to
alert him as to the subject of the interview. The name of the pediatrician
called will then appear in connection with the story in the newspaper. From
the standpoint of news value, such a local story would be worthless without
the name of the authority quoted.
KTNT-Radio has agreed to use medical spot announcements prepared by
the Pierce County Medical Society. The Tacoma News Tribune has tentatively
agreed to run a regular medical column either once a week or once every two
weeks. These will both deal with preventive medicine. Members of the Society
will be asked to co-operate in this expansion of our public relations by literary,
contributions (rather than the usual monetary).
— G . M.
W h ita c re ,
M.D.
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On May 20th, an unusually partisan crowd will cheer lustily in Madison
Square Garden as they watch a one-sided battle in which the loser will be
pounded just as mercilessly, and perhaps just as fatally, as was Benny Paret
a few weeks ago. The man delivering the punches, this time with full fatal
intent, will be the President of the United States. The loser, perhaps nearing
the end of his career, will be that wonderfully American sense of individual
responsibility as it applies to the medical care of our aged. The implications
are more far-reaching than the Paret tragedy, however. The sport of boxing is
a little shaky after the Paret affair, but will probably survive. If President
Kennedy can successfully land the fatal blow on May 20, the entire concept
of free enterprise in the practice of medicine may be on its way out.
Shall we sit by our TV and radio sets and offer no protest as the fatal
blows are struck? Is the loser completely defenseless? If this were a pure
political issue, we might say, “Let AMPAC fight the battle,” or “Let's get
equal time on TV to answer to this!” Unfortunately, the issue is a moral one,
not a political one, and no equal time is available.
An effective—and drastically needed—counterpunch which might prove
the equalizer in this one-sided battle has been prepared, in the form of a fullpage advertisement to be run in the newspaper at the appropriate time, explain
ing the dangers and fallacies in the proposed plan for medical care of the aged
under Social Security. If this ad could be read by every citizen, the battle might
not be so one-sided after all. To reach every citizen in Pierce County is our
responsibility. It happens to be a voluntary , individual responsibility. There’ll
be no assessments, no increase in dues, no money taken out of the treasury of
the County Society, though the Board of Trustees has officially approved
the project.
If every member who believes in the free practice of medicine will co
operate, it won’t cost any one of us more than a few bucks. Keep this in mind
when you, as an individual, are approached to help make this counterpunch an
effective one.
If you aren t approached in the next few days, and want to be sure you’re
included in this project, call Wayne Zimmerman at FU 3-1524.
—S.W.T.
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Public Health Committee
Recommends . . .
At the April 14th meeting of the Pierce
County Medical Society, the following
recommendations of the Public Health
Committee were approved:
That physicians vaccinate their employees
and themselves against smallpox. (Since
the Fair has started, this should be done
without delay).
That, for this community, the use of
injectable poliomyelitis vaccine be encour
aged for the present and that live, oral
poliomyelitis vaccine be considered for
community immunization this Fall.
That gamma globulin be used for (1)
household contacts of infectious hepatitis
and (2) close contacts of rubeola.
The Committee on the Control of Infec
tious Diseases of the American Academy of
Pediatrics recommends for passive immuni
zation of infectious hepatitis within 7 days,
0.02 cc’s of gamma globulin per pound.
Rubeola (measles) to prevent: as soon as
possible within 4 days, 0.1 cc’s of gamma
globulin per pound; to modify: within 6
days, 0.02 cc’s of gamma globulin per
pound.
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Nominees Asked For
State Medical Offices
The officers of the Pierce County Medi
cal Society have been asked by the State
Association to submit nominations for the
various State offices. At the present time,
Pierce County is represented at the State
level by trustees J. W. Bowen, Jr. and H er
man Judd. Jess Read serves as State dele
gate to the national association. If any
member has in mind a nominee whom he
thinks is particularly eligible for one of the
State offices, he should feel free to contact
any of the County Society officers in this
regard.
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Ideal location fo r specialization . . .
The more than 80 physicians and surgeons
practicing in the Medical Arts Building provide
a great opportunity for referred work to the
specialist locating here. You’ll find everything
from a fully equipped hospital to a medical
supply house. And people know they can
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in vi W because only those with highest ethical
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H O S P IT A L S
Tacom a G e n e ra l
New students in the Laboratory are:
Donna Strayer in Histologic Technic and
Zena Deverall in Cyto Technology. De
Lores Benrickson has completed her year’s
work in Medical Technology and has re
turned to North Dakota.
Mudit Peterson spent a week vacationing
in the San Francisco area. She visited the
Laboratory at the University of California.
While there she saw Robert Kraft, M.D.,
formerly a resident in Pathology at the
hospital here.
Last minute details are being completed
for opening up the new temporary entrance
to the hospital. All patients, relatives and
visitors are to use this new entrance, which
will be on the 4th Street side.
The Auxiliary is planning a Silver Tea
for Thursday, April 26, which is for the
purpose of raising funds to purchase a
Stryker Circolectric bed. The event will be
held in the Auditorium at Jackson Hall
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
St. Jo sep h 's
School of Nursing
Seniors are busy getting pictures taken
so that a Roster of Group Pictures will
once again become a practice in the school.
The Senior-Junior Prom is getting closer
and closer. All are awaiting this big night.
May 26th will mark a pre-graduation
party for the Senior Class at the “Towers.”
This is sponsored by the Alumnae.
We miss seeing our fine class of Juniors
around. Only three of them can be seen in
the Home School. All the others are affili
ating, but starting April 23 the group from
Firlands will arrive back. At that time more
life will be added to the Home. Those
Juniors at American Lake are not quite
sure if they like caring for the mentally ill,
but they are keeping trim by playing ten
nis, swimming and just having a good time.
On Saturday, April 14th the Freshman
Class presented a car wash. Miss Horne,
Chairman and all class members enthusi
astically participated in this project. What
was the project for—Oh, May! Paying debts
to the Student Body. They wish to extend
a sincere Thank you” to all who patron
ized the car wash.
Since the beginning of the Spring Quar
ter, the freshmen are getting experience in
total nursing care of the patient. They are
enjoying their work and their new classes.
Recently a little patient, Carolyn LeRoy
was in our hospital in the Pediatric De
partment. Everybody loved Carolyn. One
day God wanted Carolyn to Himself so
He called her home to be with Him, In
memoriam Carolyn’s parents initiated a
“Carolyn LeRoy Memorial Scholarship
Fund” for the School of Nursing. This kind
thought on the part of Carolyn’s parents is
much appreciated by the Students in the
School of Nursing.
Seconds From Second
As the beautiful April days lengthen and
the sun shines warmer and brighter the
anticipation of Summer and vacation grows.
Mrs. Viafore, R.N., is already enjoying an
early Spring vacation with her daughter,
Mrs. Lt. Corcoran in San Francisco, Cali
fornia. She is also baby-sitting as her
daughter had a lovely baby girl April 6th
and her name is Kerry. Congratulations,
Mrs. Viafore! How does it feel to be
grandma for the first time?
Mrs. Holt, R.N., has been holding the fort
in our Post Anesthesia R.R. for the past
three weeks and she is doing an enthusi
astic job.
Sister Antonia continues to give us more
nice new equipment for our units; two
Gomco throat suction machines which our
carpenter, Larry, placed on beautifully fin
ished cabinets. Also we are getting two
“Sterile-procedure” carts, one for north and
one for south, so sterile procedures can be
carried on with greater efficiency and
smoothness.
Mrs. Sylvester is looking forward to
spending her vacation with her daughter
and son-in-law at Salt Lake City. Mrs.
Hagbo is the proud grandma of a new
grandson. He was christened Noel Patrick
at St. Leo’s Church two weeks ago.
We all join in sympathy on the death of
Mrs. Garrish, L.P.N’s mother.
X-Ray Department
The X-ray Department has received word
that its School of X-ray Technology has
again met the requirements set up by the
Council on Medical Education and Hos
pitals and has been given continuing ap
proval by the Council. This approval al
lows the School to train a total of seven
students over a two-year period of training.
W iity
to h e lp t h e m
Good s t a r t on the
d a y 's w o rk (sle e p
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m ornin g
h e a d a ch e gone)
often the only therapy
needed to control blood
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symptoms in mild or
moderate cases*
NAQUA p o te n tia te s other
an tih y p e rte n siv e s when used
G olf to d a y,
fis h in g to m o rro w
a d ju n c tiv e ly ,, . . Side e ffe c ts are
m in im a l.. . . Eco no m ically p riced .
(re tire d b u t not
e a s ily tire d )
P ackag in g : NAQUA T a b le ts, 2 or 4 mg.,
sco red, b o ttle s of 100 and 1000.
F o r c o m p le t e d e t a il s , c o n s u lt la te s t
S c h e r i n g li te r a tu r e a v a ila b le f r o m
y o u r S c h e r i n g R e p r e s e n t a t iv e o r
M e d ic a l S e r v i c e s D e p a r t m e n t ,
S c h e r i n g C o r p o r a t io n , B l o o m f ie l d ,
N e w Je rs e y .
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Pediatric N e w s
We wish to express our sincere sympathy
Flopsy Rabbit, our jumpy Easter Bunny
to Jack McDonald whose mother passed has been a smile for our 50 Spring Vaca
away unexpectedly March 22.
tion T & A patients. Her Easter basket
yielded
a gift for each one. Flopsy was a
Maintenance Department
class project for the student nurses during
The hurry and scurry of preparing for their ward experience. The students also
our State inspection has slowed down our planned and presented a small Easter party
current remodelling plans temporarily. for the children on April 18.
Another clas. project, posters on preven
However, we are continuing to make some
tive medicine, found Miss Rochon and Miss
degree of progress on two projects.
The main project is, of course, the instal Young the winners with their poster on
lation of new showers and bath rooms ir. immunization. The posters will be on dis
the convent. No work has been done on play in the department for parents to view.
Mrs. Fletcher, our Head Nurse, seems to
these since the original installation forty
some years ago. And the old piping and be quite apt at her hobby. We now have a
shower bottoms have rusted almost com beautiful bowling trophy—presented by the
pletely away. We hope to have these com Orthopedic Guild and a very proud owner.
pleted in the next two weeks.
Then the old record room is being work Vacations and Maternity
trips seem to be the popu
ed on at present. The walls between the
thing on Maternity floor this month.
pillars leading into the cafeteria have been lar
Mrs. Keely, head nurse, is on vacation at
removed. The floor has been repaired and present
taking care of her husband who
we are now waiting delivery of the new
doors. These doors are the folding type was recently discharged from the hospital.
Mrs. Brick and her husband are leaving
whereby we can either open them and en on
trip to Cape Cod to visit her daughter
large the cafeteria when necessary or close anda family.
Nutall took a trip to Port
them for small conference groups isolated Angeles last Mrs.
weekend, from there she went
from the main cafeteria.
A new medicine room for the south end by boat to Vancouver Island. Mrs. Thurs
of the Medical floor has been started. Work ton, Night Nurse in the Del Room was ap
has temporarily stopped but will be re pointed as the delegate for District No. 3
sumed after next week. More on that next to Washington State Nurses Association
State Convention. She spent three days in
issue.
Work has also started on the installation Seattle. Mrs. Randle is away on a three
of our new emergency light and power week trip to California.
Dr. Moosey’s sister, Mrs. Gleva, is now
unit. This unit will be located in the stair
well on the north side of the boiler room. the mother of twins, a girl and boy. Mrs.
A new switch board will be installed with Gearheart, one of our nurses, had a baby
automatic switching so that in case of a boy. Now she has three boys. Congratula
power failure our emergency system will tions! Mrs. Donovan, R.N., is at present in
cut-in in a matter of seconds. The new the hospital recovering from surgery. Hej
emergency unit will be of ample capacity granddaughters, two years old twins, were
to take care of the entire hospital’s light in the hospital last Wednesday looking for
Grandma. Sorry she could not see them.
and power requirements.
We are also in the process of repainting
Record Room
all hallways and stairwells. A very low
are the biggest topic of news
odor type of fire retardent paint is being in Conventions
our department this month. All of us are
used for these areas and it is hoped that
neither our patients or the floor personnel
will be inconvenienced by paint smells.
Plans are in formulation for enlarging the
P.T. department in the near future. The
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floors will be eliminated to make this space
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looking forward to the Western Hospital
Convention in Portland (May 8-9) that is
on the agenda for this month. Many inter
esting displays and speakers have been
planned for the Medical Record Personnel.
It should prove to be very stimulating. A
more detailed report will be given next
month.
Now that nine months of study for our
Medical Record Technician Students is
drawing to a close, the season for field
trips is once again in session. The first of
these field trips was to the Pierce County
Medical headquarters here in Tacoma. The
students were given a very cordial tour of
the offices and the IBM method of billing
procedures was explained to them. It was
extremely complicated in nature but of
great interest to all.
The Tacoma Chapter of Medical Record
Librarians met for its monthly meeting at
Doctors Hospital. All of us were saddened
by the news that Miss Sally Mount, R.R.L.
of Tacoma General will soon be leaving
Tacoma. We wish her the very best in her
future endeavors. The topic of greatest dis
cussion at the meeting centered around the
convention in Portland. Another meeting is
being planned after the convention in order
to discuss items of interest gained from the
convention.
Sister Antonia and several Sisters at
tended the mid-year meeting of the Wash
ington State Hospital Association in Bel
lingham April 6, 1962.
The topic ‘‘Health Care for the Aged”
was a pertinent and timely one for all pri
vate non-profit hospitals. Washington State
is way out front in the care provided for
its citizens on all age levels. But we can’t
rest on our laurels; we must keep striving
to improve patient care at all times.
The best part of the meeting was the sur-
prise door prize which turned out to be an
eighty pound halibut won by Sister Angeline from Spokane, Washington.
The Catholic Hospital meeting was held
in St. Joseph Hospital. Miss Grace T. Gould,
R.N., from Olympia was the speaker. She
stressed the broadening of patient care to
include the family espcially in the care of
the mentally ill. This is not a new approach
but one which is not stressed in our interest
in the care of the patient.
Business Office
Mrs. Nish, one of our young, has taken off
to enjoy the opening of the World’s Fair.
Mrs. Teresa Kingsbury has purchased a
new home in Ruston. We all know she is
enjoying her beautiful view of the water.
Vacations seem to be the topic of conver
sation these days. The big decision is when
I want it and where to go. We hope every
one has a nice vacation.
Thank goodness the 15th of April has
passed. The phone has finally gone back to
normal. The people who lose their receipts
should be penalized.
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W O M A N 'S A U X IL IA R Y . . .
To The Pierce County Medical Society
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AUXILIARY OFFICERS—1961-62 tinue
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members. These letters are pub
_________Mrs. K enneth E. Gross
President-Elect___________ .................Mrs. H erm an S. Judd
1st V ice-President________ ......
Mrs. Philip Grenley
2nd Vice-President_______ ____________M rs. R obert R. B urt
3rd Vice-President_______
Mrs. W illiam Burrows
4th Vice-President— ......... — .....................Mrs. D ale Doherty
Recording Secretary- _ .......... Mrs. D udley W . H outz
Corresponding Secretary__
Mrs. A rthur P. W ickstrom
Treasurer.__________ Mrs. H askel L. M aier
Assistant Treasurer._________--------------Mrs. Glenn H . Brokaw
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Our last meeting for the current season
will be a No-Host luncheon at the Doric
Motel, with Helen Florence and Margaret
Larson as Co-Chairmen. Marge Wicks has
acquired the cooperation of the board, plus
a talented member to write the narration
for the program entitled, “Preview of Fash
ions for the Coming Year”. The models will
wear original creations to convey their
Auxiliary efforts during the past year. We
will also have installation of new officers.
Betty May and Rosemary Dye with their
committee have been working diligently on
plans and arrangements for the Annual
Dance to be held May 18th at the Top of
the Ocean featuring Stan Miskoski’s Or
chestra. Late supper or early breakfast
(whichever you wish to call it) will be
served. Tickets are $10.00 per couple . . .
do contact Marge Wicks, Nancy Buttorff,
Betty Johnson or Ruth Zimmerman for your
reservations.
Legislative Chairman, Lorraine Adams,
reports
that the Washington State Medical
A sR f)H flH n n ftffi/'wa VlUP k a n n a t i J ti.ill
lished in order to keep you informed as to
the legislative status of the King Bill. All
Auxiliary members are urged to read this
paper and if at any time they request
action, please follow their suggestions
promptly.
At present we are most anxious to obtain
signatures on the petitions opposing the
King Bill. These petitions, regardless of the
number of signatures, should be returned
to Lorraine by May 8th.
Let’s remember to start writing those let
ters for the May 21st “pickup” now. Letters
should be brief, with just one reason for
opposing the King Bill, they should have a
May 20th or May 21st dateline.
M ore Pictures Needed
For Medical Roster
A recent photograph of every doctor in
the Pierce County Medical Society will be
needed for completion of the pictorial ros
ter of the Society which is to be published
soon. The program for having a new photo
graph of each member doctor, with Perler’s
Studio as the official photographer, has
been going smoothly, but about 25 per cent
of the doctors have not had their pictures
taken yet.
If you are one of those who hasn’t been
in for a pose, you will probably get a call
from the photographer soon. Better yet,,
call Perler’s at BR 2-7733 for an appoint
ment, or stop by there any time to make
arrangements. The studio is located at 746
St. Helens Ave. Several poses will be taken
and you will have your choice of proofs.
There is no charge for this as far as the
proofs and one picture for the roster are
concerned. You may, of course, twist the
photographer’s arm and get him to let you
pay for some additional pictures for your
family.
Will the doctor who borrowed Frank
Rigos’ book on “Ascents of the Cascade
Mountains” please return same. It is a small,
green book and I have forgotten who bor
rowed it. I would like to have it back as I
NEED it! Thank you.
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Dr. William B. Castle
This is the first in a series to keep bulle
tin readers abreast of the plans for the
73rd Annual Washington State Medical
Association Meeting, September 16-19,
1962, at the Davenport Hotel, Spokane.
The scientific program committee is
under the leadership of Dr. Carl P.
Schlicke, Spokane, and “Medicine and
Century 21” is the theme for this year’s
meeting. Sixteen guest scientific speakers,
representing 9 specialties, plus cancer and
space medicine, have been invited to take
part. Papers will also be presented by local
speakers in the general and specialty ses
sions, with medical television, business ses
sions and sports events rounding out the
program.
One of the guest scientific speakers will
be Dr. William B. Castle, Minot Professor
of Medicine, Harvard University, Director
of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and
Director of the II and IV (Harvard) Medi
cal Services of the Boston City Hospital.
Doctor Castle is known for his leadership
of his Department of Medicine and for the
training of many men now serving as
Deans, Professors or Associate Professors
and others actively participating in Aca
demic Medicine. As Director of the Thorn
dike Memorial Laboratory he has main
tained an interest in the pathologic physi
ology of nutritional and hemolytic anemias,
as well as other hematologic disorders. In
particular, he and his associates have ex
plored the relationship between achylia
gastrica and pernicious anemia'with the develonmpnt nf rr^rmianf r\£ fVio rlicdace ae
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a deficiency of Vitamin B-12 conditioned
by defective assimilation of the vitamin
usually as a result of intrinsic factor in the
gastric secretion. In another series of in
vestigations they recognized the signifi
cance of die spleen as a mechanical filter
and consequently the role of anomalies of
shape (spherocytes, sickle cells) or agglu
tination (antibodies) with respect to the
retention of the red cells in the capillary
bed. The concept of erythrostasis as the
phenamenon underlying various types of
accelerated red cell destruction not asso
ciated with hemolysins demonstrable in
vitro was elaborated.
Joining Doctor Castle as guest speaker
in the internal medicine sessions will be
Dr. Francis C. Lowell, Boston, and Dr.
Belding H. Scribner, Associate Professor of
Medicine, University of Washington School
of Medicine.
Seattle Psychiatric Forum
Dr. George L. Engel has been selected
as the speaker for the first Seattle Psychi
atric Forum. He will present two lectures
in the Health Sciences Auditorium of the
University of Washington.
1. Thursday, June 28, 1962, 8:00 p.m.
“Monica—The Consequences of a Depres
sion of Infancy—A Ten Year Study.” (Ex
cellent motion picture data supplement the
lecture.)
2. Friday, June 29, 1962, 8:00 p.m. “The
Phylogenesis and the Ontogenesis of De
pression.” (Motion pictures demonstrating
infant behavioral patterns in humans and
monkeys are presented to illustrate the
thesis.)
Doctor Engel, Professor, Department of
Psychiatry, Rochester University, and As
sociate Professor, Department of Medicine,
Rochester University, is widely recognized
for his teaching and research in psychiatry
and psychosomatic medicine.
The Seattle Psychiatric Forum is spon
sored by the Committee of Psychiatrists
for Community Action, an organization in
Seattle concerned with local and state-wide
activities related to mental health. Mem
bers of the medical profession and allied
sciences are invited to attend the Forum.
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Poison Prevention
Brochures Available
By Poison Control Committee
Thanks to all for your help in promo
tion of Poison Prevention Week. With ac
cidents now the principal cause of death
among children, we value the work of all
physicians and others co-operating to in
struct parents of young children in safety
measures to prevent poisoning accidents,
and in publicizing emergency facilities
available in Pierce County if poisoning
should occur.
If these preventable accidents are to
decrease, a continuous educational pro
gram is needed to contact all new parents
as their children reach the exploring age.
No one is better suited to stress the neces
sary safety precautions to prevent poisoning
in the home than the doctor who would be
consulted immediately if poisoning
occurred.
The three brochures mailed during Poi
son Prevention Week were developed to
make this office education program easier.
A number of doctors have requested addi
tional supplies of these three for distribu
tion to parents of toddlers throughout the
year. If there is moderate demand, each
of the three can be produced for between
lc and 2c per copy.
Please use this coupon to let Judy Gor
don know the number of these brochures
you wish, at this cost, for your office for
1962:
No. Copies
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(red and white folder)
________ “Poison Prevention”
(pink folder)
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Pearls Reaped From
Stanford Sym posium
The Stanford University School of Medi
cine chose famous names from all corners
of the country to present “The Skin and
Internal Disorders”. This three day sym
posium was most stimulating. A few pearls
of interest to all are reviewed.
The panel on Lupus Erythematosus—
Louis A. Brunsting, Cecil J. Watson and
Halsted R. Holman—exercised the inter
relationship of lupus erythematosus, the
agamma-globulinemias, idiopathic thrombropenias and rheumatoid states. Some in
teresting “rules of thumb”:
Hemolytic anemia plus Raynaud’s syn
drome strongly suggests S.L.E.
Hemolytic anemia plus purpura strongly
suggests S.L.E.
The severity of S.L.E. can be followed
by the degree of leukopenia.
Evidence of S.L.E., rheumatoid arthritis
or increased gammaglobulin or positive
anti-tissue anitbodies in a patient will point
to similar problems in other members of
the patient’s family in 60% of cases.
Lowell A. Rantz of Stanford spoke on
Pyodermas and Recurrent Furunculosis.
(The Stanford routine follows this article.)
An important point — The new Oxycillin
(Prostaphlin) should be given 4 to 8 grams
per day for coagulase positive staph infec
tions and should always be given on an
empty stomach.
Thomas H. Sternberg of Los Angeles
stressed the rise in new cases of primary
and secondary syphilis based on homosex
uals. This makes case reporting most diffi
cult. Penicillin remains the treatment of
choice unless the patient is Penicillin sensi
tive. Tetracycline in adequate doses may
be substituted. The Herxheimer reaction
may be controlled with steroids given prior
to Penicillin.
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C N S STIMULATION
TENUATE DOSPAN
Doctors Watson and Brunsting covered
porphyria and the photo-sensitive and pho
to-toxic eruptions. Two diagnostic short
cuts are of interest: “Patches of morphea on
exposed areas of the chest, plus hirsutism
on the face, points to porphyria.”
“Acrosclerosis plus hirsuitism of the face
suggests porphyria.”
“In the Schwarz Test for porphyrobilinogen, Butanol is specific for porphyrobilinogen, whereas, Chloroform may pick up
other coloring substances to give a false
positive test.”
— J o h n M. S h a w , M.D.
Regimen for Patients with
Recurrent Furunculosis
Personal Care
1) Shower twice daily with pHisohex.
Twice-daily showers are probably necessary
for two or three months, at least. If prob
lems are controlled, one daily shower seems
enough. Cessation of showers can be ex
pected to result in relapses, however.
Shower Technique:
1. Step into shower, moisten entire
body.
2. Apply pHisohex by hand. Attempt
to work up a lather.
3. Lightly rinse body so as to moisten
skin.
4. Now lather more vigorously. Do
not add additional pHisohex.
5. Rinse thoroughly.
6. Blot dry with soft towel.
2) Apply neomycin-bacitracin ointment
to anterior nares, hands and fingers, and
groin, four times daily. Intranasal ointment
is applied by means of cotton-tipped appli
cator stick. Times for ointment are: after
morning shower, in late morning, in late
afternoon, and after evening shower.
STRICT ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS
NECESSARY. THIS PROGRAM INITI
ALLY SEEMS HARD TO FOLLOW,
CONSEQUENTLY THE PHYSICIAN
MUST INSIST ON CLOSE ADHERENCE
UNTIL HABIT PATTERNS ARE ESTAB
LISHED.
Laundry and Linen:
1) All laundry and linen should be
boiled at least once, and then kept separ
ate from Unboiled materials.
2) If a home laundry is used, use a
standard detergent and allow a complete
cycle to pass. Then repeat the rinse, adding
two tablespoons of SBT-12 or L-300 per
gallon of water (usually five tablespoons
suffice).
3) Change shirtr and underclothes daily.
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sure to antimicrobials, family history of
diabetes (minimum).
3) If the history of boils is of recent on
set, it may be worthwhile to determine if
the patient’s family, work, geographic or
psycho-social adjustment has undergone a
recent change. In such instances, the prog
nosis is considerably better than in long
standing cases.
SBT-12
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Health Exams For C am p
Physicians wish to encourage school-age
youngsters in going to camp. Camping or
ganizations are anxious for adequate health
evaluation of their camping children, done
by the children’s physician with sufficient
leisure to permit treatment of any prob
lems discovered.
With these goals in mind, the School
Health Committee has negotiated the fol
lowing agreement, approved by the execu
tive committee with Girl Scouts, Boy
Scouts, Campfire Girls, 4-H, YWCA, YMCA
and Tacoma Boys’ Club.
1. The camping organizations will re
commend that each campers’ physical ex
amination be done in a doctor’s office. If
possible, this examination should be
a) a health supervision examination
including complete medical history and
a prelude to annual health examinations
by the child’s physician. If the family
does not wish this, the child should have
b) a complete physical examination
also done in the doctor’s office.
2. Any complete examination done with
in 12 months of camping date will satisfy
the camping requirements. The report with
the date of the original examination and
any necessary interval notes, should be
recorded on the form provided by the
camping organization within one month of
camping date (a uniform reporting form is
being considered for next year.)
3. In cases of children having physicians
where examination in the doctor’s office is
felt by the camping organization to be a
financial hardship for the family, the organ
ization will contact the doctor’s office.
4. Children without physicians, whose
physical examination in a doctor’s office will
cause a financial hardship will be handled
as follows:
a) the Medical Society office will
keep a list of physicians volunteering to
do these exams at less than cost. The
camping organization will call the Medi
cal Society for the name of a physician
convenient to the child.
b) the camping organization will call
the doctor’s office indicating whether
they feel the family should pay: 1) part,
2) token, or 3) nothing for the
examination.
5. Neither the Medical Society nor
camping organizations approve group
physical examinations, but arrangements
for these can be made in urgent situations
if parents are made to understand that this
is not an adequate type of examination.
Specifically, the Medical Society feels that
physical examinations should be completed
before the child departs for camp.
We appreciate the excellent cooperation
of the camping organizations who will try
to get children to our offices as far in ad
vance as possible. They, in turn, will appre
ciate as precise recommendations as pos
sible regarding the child’s camping
activities.
Any questions or suggestions for improve
ment of this program, will be appreciated
by the committee.
— D a v i d L. S p a r l i n g , M.D.,
Chairman,
School Health Committee.
H eart A ssn . Publishes
N e w Pam phlet
A pamphlet for physicians to give pa
tients being treated with anticoagulants is
now available from the Pierce County
Heart Association.
The publication “Anticoagulants, Your
Physician and You” has been prepared by
the American Heart Association to rein
force verbal explanation and advice given
by physicians when introducing anticoagu
lant therapy. It explains the importance of
periodic laboratory tests, warns against the
possible added effects of other drugs taken
without a physician’s prescription, and re
minds patients to mention their anticoagu
lant medication to other physicians or den
tists from whom treatment may be sought.
Physicians may order supplies of the
pamphlet from Pierce County Heart Asso
ciation, 120 North Tacoma Ave., Tacoma,
Wash., or by telephone at BR 2-7854.
Doctor-Lawyer Field Day
The annual Doctor-Lawyer Field Day
wall be held on Friday, May 11th at Fircrest Golf and Country Club. Golf and
bridge will be followed by a no-host cock
tail party and dinner commencing at 7 p.m.
Cost of the dinner will be $4.50 per person
and a choice of either steak or seafood will
be available—doctors planning to attend
are to let Dr. O’Connell know which they
prefer.
Those who will play golf may make up
their own foursomes or foursomes will be
made up at the Club; greens fees will be $6
for non-members and $2 for members.
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S T A R T T H IN K IN G O F Y O U R S E L F A S A S T A L A C T IT E ?”
C o u rte sy M e d ic a l S o c ie ty M a g a z in e G rou p
"O H , T H E R E 'S
N O T H IN G U N U S U A L
A B O U T Y O U R D I S E A S E IN I T S E L F — IT J U S T H A P P E N S T O B E T H E
T I M E T H A T IT ’S E V E R B E E N C O N T R A C T E D B Y A H U M A N B E I N G ! ”
F IR S T
C o u rte sy M e d ic a l S o c ie ty M a g a z in e G ro up
Pierce County M edical Society
B U L K RATE
U. S. P O ST A G E
P A I D
TACOMA, WASH.
P E R M IT No. 300
MONTHLY
MEETINGS
STAFF OF D O C T O R S H O SPIT A L OF T A C O M A
Second M o n d a y of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium of M edical Arts Bldg.
STAFF OF G O O D S A M A R IT A N
Second M o n d a y of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 6:30 p.m.
STAFF OF N O RT H ERN P A C IF IC
Second M o n d a y of each month— noon.
STAFF OF ST. JO SEPH 'S
Third M o n d ay of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 6:15 p.m.
STAFF OF M O U N T A IN V IE W G E N E R A L H O SPIT A L
Last M o n d a y of February, June, Septem ber and Novem ber
T A C O M A A C A D E M Y OF P SY CH IA T RISTS and N E U R O L O G IST S
First Tuesday of each month— 8:30 p.m.
Board Room of Pierce County M edical Society
T A C O M A O R T H O P ED IC SO C IET Y
PIERCE C O U N T Y M E D IC A L SO C IET Y
Second Tuesday of the month except June, July and Auqust
— 8:15 p.m.
STAFF OF T A C O M A G EN ER AL
First Tuesday of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 6-30 p m
Third Tuesday of each m onth— 6:30 p.m. at Tacoma Club
T A C O M A A C A D E M Y OF IN T ER N A L M E D IC IN E
Fourth Tuesday of each month— 6 p.m. at Tacoma Club
PIERCE C O U N T Y A C A D E M Y OF G EN ER A L PR A CT IC E
Fourth M o n d a y of each month except June, July and Auqust—
6:30 p.m. at Honan's
PIERCE C O U N T Y PED IA T R IC SO C IET Y
First Thursday of each month except June, July and A u gu st—
6:00 p.m.
STAFF O F M E D IC A L AR TS H O SPIT A L
Third Friday of March, June, September, December— 7:15 a.m.
at N e w Yorker Cafe
STAFF O F M A R Y B R ID G E C H ILD R E N 'S H O SPIT A L
Fourth Friday of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 12:15 p.m.
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PIERCE COUNTY M E D IC A L SOCIETY
THE M E D IC A L SO C IET Y D O ES NOT M EET
PIERCE CO U N TY M ED ICAL SOCIETY
D U R IN G JUNE, JULY or AUGUST.
The Medical Society Office will be closed
from June 22 to June 29.
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O F F IC E R S
P resident .. ................... ...........-.............
G. M. W hitacre
P resident-E lect .......-___ __________ ______ Stanley W . Tuell
V ic e -P re sid en t......................................
S ecretary-T reasurer______ _________ ... A rnold J. H errm ann
T R U STE ES
John F . C om fort
John Shaw
D ale D . D oherty
R obert M. Ferguson
W arren F. Sm ith
Stanley W . Tuell
C hris C. R eynolds
G. M. W hitacre
DELEGATES
D ouglas Buttorff
Stanley W . Tuell
G. M. W hitacre
W ayne W . Zim m erm an
ALTERNATE DELEGATES
Glenn H . B rokaw
G lenn G. M cBride
R obert M. Ferguson
C O M M IT T E E S
E thics
G lenn G.M cBride, C hairm an
F rank R. M addison
G rievance
Chris C.R eynolds, C hairm an
J. W . Bowen, Jr.
C. B. R itchie
P rogram
D ale D oherty
Orvis A. H arrelson
P u blic R elations
R obert M. Ferguson
D ale D oherty
John R. Alger
L ibrary
Tames M. B lankenship, C hairm an
C linton A. Piper
R obert M. Ferguson
R obert E. L ane
P ublic H ealth
G eorge A. T anbara, C hairm an
Orvis A. H arrelson
R obert C. Johnson
Cecil R. F argher
K enneth G raham
G alen H . Hoover, C hairm an
R obert C. Johnson
G lenn H . Brokaw
C ivil D isaster
T . R. H aley, C hairm an
D avid T. H ellyer
Leo F. Sulkosky
C harles E. Kemp
K enneth G raham
R obert D. M cGreal
D iabetes
T heodore J. H. Sm ith, C hairm an
R obert H . Bias
D udley W . H outz
E ntertain m en t
R obert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
R obert W . O sbom e
G eriatrics
Glenn H. Brokaw, C hairm an
Jam es E. Ilazelrigg
M arcel M alden
L egislative
W ayne W . Zim m erm an, C hairm an
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. H arrelson
J. H ugh Kalkus
M edical E ducation
M ax S. Thom as
R odger S. Dille
Schools
R obert C. Johnson
H askel L. M aier
John M. K anda
R. A. Norton
M. E. Law rence
M ental H ealth
M. R. Stuen
H arlan P. M cN utt
Traffic and Safety
Robert M. C ham bers
Poison C ontrol
Claris Allison
Kenneth G raham
B ernard A. B ader
C harles C. R eberger
R odger S. Dille
G eorge T anb ara
Allen Eagelson (A dvisory M em ber)
B nlletin Staff
--------- --------------- ---------------------- Stanley W . T uell
f di*o r
Business M anager .............
Judy G ordon
A uxiliary N ew . E d ito r.......................
M rs. R obert A. K allsen
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TREACY A. DUERFELT
WILLIAM L. ROHNER
JAMES L. VADHEIM
JOSEPH B. HARRIS
JACK J. ERICKSON
HAROLD D. LUEKEN
JACK MANDEVILLE
ERNA GUILFOIL
THOMAS O. MURPHY
MILES PARROTT
GEORGE TANBARA
GEORGE BATEY
LEO ANNEST
JACK W. LEE
MARCEL MALDEN
JAMES F. EARLY
L. S. DURKIN
M. E. LAWRENCE
H. HERBERT MEIER
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Thom as W . Owen, Vice President and M anager of N ational Bank of
W ashington’s Investm ent D epartm ent, studies a bond quotation just
received over the Bank’s teletype.
Day in and day out . . . by teletype, telephone and telegram
. . . Thomas W. Owen, Vice President and Manager of the
Investment Department of National Bank of Washington, keeps
in constant touch with the fluctuating bond markets throughout
the country.
His many years of practical experience in the field of U. S.
Government Bonds and tax exempt municipals, is used to good
advantage by the National Bank of Washington in the manage
ment of its own investment portfolios. Although the Trust
Department calls upon him in connection with investments for
trust accounts, this wealth of experience is also available for
anyone wishing to invest in Government or tax exempt munici
pal securities.
Call Mr. Owen at MArket 7-2131 in Tacoma to discuss the
advantages of owning tax-free bonds.
M EM BER
F E D E R A l D E P O S IT
IN S U R A N C E C O R P O R A T IO N
B U L L E T IN
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ACHROMYCIN
T e tr a c y c lin e L e d e rle
A CH RO M YCIN N asal Suspension sup
p lie s h ig h ly c o n c e n tra te d broad-range
a c tiv ity at th e site o f in fe ctio n , with mini
mal occurrence o f patient intolerance or
, tis s u e to x ic ity . In a d d itio n , ACHROMYCIN
Nasal Suspension provides desirable decongestant and a n ti-in fla m m a to ry relief.
A C H R O M Y C IN N a s a l S u s p e n s io n (3 .7 5 m g ./c c .) w ith
H y d r o c o r tis o n e A c e t a te (0 .2 m g . / c c . ) a n d P he n yle“ p h r in e H C I (0 .1 2 5 % ) .
ACHROMYCIN V
T e tr a c y c lin e H C I w ith C it r ic A c id L e d e rle
C a p s u le s - 2 5 0 m g . . 1 0 0 m g.
L E D E R L E L A B O R A T O R IE S , A D iv is io n o f A M E R IC A N C V A N A M ID C O M P A N Y , P e a rl R iv e r, N e w Y o rk
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President's Page
Last week the officers of the Medical Society met with the execu
tives of the United Good Neighbors of Pierce County. The meeting
was initiated by us and our offer to counsel with them where matters
of health are concerned was well-received. It is disturbing to the
UGN, as well as to us, that there should be so much duplication and
overlapping in voluntary health agencies. We are both anxious that
research, education and community service in the attack on disease
should go forward. We would like to see it achieved by voluntary
giving as well as government subsidy. How can the waste of effort
and money brought about by several agencies working in the same
general area be eliminated? It is a huge, complex problem and, con
sidering the national scope of many of the voluntary agencies, it is a
problem which we will not solve locally.
At our meeting, it was agreed that the officers of the Pierce
County Medical Society will act as a liaison committee available
to the UGN board. We will act as their medical advisor in regard
to the value of various health services and the merit of health agencies
which apply for coverage under the UGN.
Some physicians or groups of physicians practicing in Pierce
County may have a research project for which they would like to
use UGN funds. If such a project is approved by the executive com
mittee of the Pierce County Medical Society, the UGN will be glad
to consider their application for funds. Applications for admission
to the UGN campaign in any year must be submitted before Feb
ruary 1. This is a chance for those of you interested in medical
research to put our UGN funds to work locally.
— G . M.
W h it a c r e ,
M.D.
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of the
June Calendar of M eetings
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
1
C .P.C . of St.
Jo sep h ’s— 9 a.m.
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Staff of T . C .
6 :3 0 p.m .
12
Staff o f D octors
H osp .— 7 :3 0 p.m .
Staff o f G ood
S am aritan
6 :3 0 p.m .
Staff of N o rth ern
Pacifiic— N oon
Staff of
St. Jo se p h ’s
6 :1 5 p.m .
13
C .P .C . o f M ary
B rid g e— 8 a.m .
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18
26
Staff of M t. V iew
G enera] H osp ital
14
C .P .C . o f T .G .
8 :3 0 a.m .
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C .P .C . of M ary
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C .P .C . o f T .G .
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C .P .C . o f T .G .
8 :3 0 a.m .
C .P.C . of St.
15
S taff of Medical
A rts Hospital
7 :15 a.m.
C .P.C . of St.
22
Staff of M. Bridge
12:15 p.m.
D o ctor -D entist
F ie l d D ay
F ircrest
C .P.C . of St.
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C .P.C . of St.
Jo seph’s— 9 a.m.
Grand Rounds— Mt. View General Hospital— Every Saturday 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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Will Your Child Be A Socialist?
I found it refreshing the other day when my young nephew
told me he couldn’t see how the current bill for medical care for the
aged could pass, because nearly all of the young people he knew
were against it. Duly refreshed, my next thought startled me . . .
“What are my own childrens thoughts on this subject?” I had to
admit I didn’t actually know, because I hadn’t reviewed it with
them in detail. Since then, I’ve taken the time to explain to them
the dangers of Socialism and the present trend toward a welfare
state.
In the young child we try to strengthen character by assigning
him progressively greater responsibility as he grows older. By the
time he is in his teens, he is ready to correlate this feeling of
personal responsibility with some sort of political philosophy. He’ll
be exposed to various influences—schools, friends, TV, movies—in
molding his political philosophy, and parental influence should be
given its just proportion.
Teaching our teen-agers to think clearly on these subjects may
not help defeat HR 4222, but it may help stem or slow the tide of
Socialism a few years hence. If you have teen-agers in your home,
don t forget to discuss these subjects with them. The kind of citizens
they become in future years, and their decisions at the ballot-box,
may depend mainly on the advice and information they received
from the person they probably respect more than anyone else—you.
— S.W.T.
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P ie h c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie ty
Political Veteran,
Homer Will Seek
State Senatorship
Closely following political victories by
two Pierce County physicians—Arnie Herr
mann and Ernest Banfield — Tacoma’s
most experienced and best-known doctorpolitician, Homer Humiston verified recent
rumors when he announced he would file
as a Republican candidate for the office
of State Senator from the 26th District.
Homer, an expert parliamentarian, has
had many years of valuable experience in
political and administrative positions. He
served two terms on Tacoma’s City Council,
being deputy mayor for the last two years.
Since 1956, he has been medical director
of the Pierce County' Medical Bureau. In
1960-61, he was President of the Wash
ington State Medical Association and in
tliis position was in close contact with
State legislative problems and the politi
cally intricate maneuvers that were in
volved in making worthwhile progress in
Olympia.
Homer’s medical training was at Har
vard Medical School and later at the Mayo
Clinic, before he came to Tacoma in 1939.
He was President of the Pierce County
Medical Bureau Board of Trustees in 194748 and President of the County Medical
Society in 1948-49.
Attention . . .
X-Ray Technicians
The 34th Annual Convention of the
American Socicty of X-Ray Technicians
is to be held in Seattle during the week of
July 7-12, 1962 at the Olympic Western
Hotel. This is the first time the Northwest
has been host to the National Convention
and we urge all technicians to avail them
selves of the opportunity of participating
in such an important event. You will find
a complete program of the week’s activi
ties in the May issue of the X - R a y
Make your plans now to attend and
to support the tremendous amount of work
that has gone into the planning of your
convention.
T e c h n i
c ia n
.
Big Turnout For
M onthly Meeting At
M adigan Hospital
When 117 members turn out for a
monthly meeting of the Pierce County
Medical Society, that’s news! A crowd of
doctors that would have overflowed
Honan’s and the usual meeting auditor
ium, found lots of room, sociability, hos
pitality, good food, and a well-rounded
scientific program on Tuesday, May 8th,
at the Madigan General Hospital Officers’’
Club.
General Crawford was a genial host,
and Colonel Crone conducted a spirited
program consisting of five interesting cases
presented and discussed by stafE members
at Madigan. President Marshall Whitacre
conducted a short business meeting and
everyone was back home at a reasonable
time, despite the extra travel-time required.
Guests and hosts both hinted that a sim
ilar combined meeting should be consid
ered for next year.
Doctor-Lawyer Field Day
The afternoon was sunny and warm as
lawyers closed their musty tomes and doc
tors left their antiseptic environs and gath
ered on the greensward of the Fircrest
Country Club. With the legal profession
serving as hosts, the afternoon of Friday,
May 4, provided fair skies for a wellattended golf tourney and (for the less ath
letic) a duplicate bridge contest.
Following a period of fellowship and
liquid replenishment (electrolytes only, of
course!) the professions gathered at a no
host dinner. The) silver-tongued orators
provided the banality with the brief, but
able assist of Marsh Whitacre. Prizes for
the very apt and, in some cases, for the
far-from-apt golfers sailed through die
room like golf balls.
Most of all the day provided for all
present a common meeting ground for two
ancient, able and honored professions who,
in this day and age, need to stand side by
side for their own future as well as the
future of those they serve. Perhaps if all
county groups in these United States had
similarly united for lo these past ten years,
we wouldn’t be facing one aspect of to
day’s challenge.
—James Hazelrigg, M.D.
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P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y ____________________________ 11
Epidemiology Course
Announced
An intensive short course in epidemiol
ogy is scheduled for July 9-13, 1962 at the
University of Washington. The University’s
Department of Preventive Medicine, the
Washington State Department of Health
and the Communicable Disease Center in
Adanta have shared in the development
of the course, which will bring Dr. Brian
MacMahon of Harvard University and a
number of other distinguished speakers to
Seattle. Special lectures on measles vac
cines, respiratory diseases, enterovirus dis
eases and methods of epidemiological in
vestigation and research are included in
the program. Interested physicians may
obtain further information from the De
partment of Preventive Medicine of the
University of Washington or the Communi
cable Disease Control Section of the State
Department of Health in Seattle or
Olympia.
Physician-Dentist
Field Day
The annual Physician-Dentist Field Day
will be held Friday, June 22 at Fircrest. A
full schedule of events—fishing, golf and
bridge—is planned and the day’s activities
will be rounded out with a cocktail hour
and dinner at the club house.
Dr. Robert Osborne is in charge of fish
ing; Dr. John Alger, bridge, and Dr. Robert
O’Connell, golf. The committee assures
prizes galore for all events — everybody
wans!
Further details will be mailed to you
soon. Meanwhile, save die date.
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B U L L E T IN
o f the
H O S P IT A L S
St. Joseph's
M edical Records
This month has been very busy and ex
citing for the Medical Record Technician
students.
On May 1, the students went on a field
trip to visit the U.S. Public Health Hos
pital, King County Hospital, and Provi
dence Hospital, all in Seattle. At these hos
pitals the students saw various types of
records and enjoyed the tours given by the
Medical Record Librarians. The highlights
of the field trip were the many departments
at U.S. Public Health, the large out-patient
department at King Count)' and the heart
research center at Providence Hospital.
On May Sth the students attended the
Western Hospitals Convention at the Mem
orial Coliseum at Portland, Oregon.
During these last weeks before gradua
tion the students are taking part in a cadet
training program. Each student takes a
week’s training under the supervision of
M rs. Katherine Lehman, a certified Medi
cal Record Librarian, in Eastern Washing
ton. Thus far, the students have found the
trip very rewarding and informative.
On May 17th the Medical Record person
nel of the city, held a farewell meeting for
Miss Sally Mount, who will be leaving soon
for Galveston, Texas. A report on the Con
vention was given by Miss Sally Mount
for those unable to attend.
The Record Department here at St.
Joseph’s has been the scene of much activ
ity these past few days as the M.D.’s arc
most cooperative about coming in and com
pleting their charts.
The inspection by Dr. Weir of the Joint
Commission on Hospital Accreditation was
held May 24th. We are looking forward to
a good report.
Surgery
The OR.R staff welcomes Mrs. Thurston,
R.N., who was previously on night duty in
delivery room. She is replacing Mrs. Chand
ler who will leave for San Francisco in
June.
We have a celebrity in the group—Mrs.
Alma Thomas is the proud possessor of a
first place bowling trophy for the Tuesday
Scratch League at Daffodil Bowl in Puyal
lup. Congratulations!
Mrs. Moe, Clinical O.R. Instructor, re
cently visited us up here, and everyone was
happy that her hospital stay was a short
one. Also, wishes for a speedy recovery to
Mrs. Burnett’s husband who recently had
surgery.
Mrs. Geraldine Corak, who was with us
for a short time, left to make her new home
in Arizona.
Miss Brascher returned from her vaca
tion in Hawaii, very tanned and rested;
yes, she did have many interesting experi
ences to relate which made us all want
to go to the land of swaying palms and
sandy beaches!
Surgery staff wishes to express their sym
pathy to Mrs. Marian Wetsch, head nurse
O.R., on the recent loss of her beloved
father-in-law.
The “new' look” of surgery is well under
way, with many changes to come since the
visit of the Public Health Inspectors. No
doubt this is also happening in the other
departments, and these changes are much
for the better. We are proud to be em
ployees of such a well-run organization as
St. Joseph's Hospital.
Sch ool of Nursing
The senior class had a very nice time at
the Prom, “Tropic Mist”. The Royal Court
was made up of Miss Mary Jane Dalpe,
Queen; Miss Young and Miss Roe,
Princesscs.
Wedding bells will ring the last of June
for Mar>' Rochon. Mary plans to finish and
graduate September of this year.
The School has really been in a whirl
with campaigns and elections for Student
Bod>- Officers. Miss Dugger turned the
gavel over to Miss Trunnell. Other new
officers are: Vice President, Miss McGuire;
Secretary, Miss Coleman; Treasurer, Miss
Stahl; Social Chairman, Miss Kerst.
Junior have been busy campaigning and
decorating for the Prom. We wish to thank
the Sisters for the use of their plants. The
plants fit in perfectly and made the dance
Long-term effectiveness of METICORTEN continues to
be demonstrated in J. G., the arthritic miner whose
case was first reported a year ago and who continues
to lead a fully active life today, after seven years of therapy.
before M e t i c o r t e n —Rheumatoid arthritis com
mencing in 1949 with severe shoulder joint pain—
Completely helpless by 1951 and unable to work
despite cortisone, gold and analgesics Hydro
cortisone ineffective in 1954.
since M e t i c o r t e n — Prompt improvement with M e t i c o r t e n , begun April
2, 1955— Returned to work that same year Maintained to date on
M e tic o r te n , 10-15 mg./day, without serious side effects, with joint pain
controlled and full use of hands and limbs.
Case history provided by Joel G oldm an, M .D ., Johnstow n, Pa. O riginal photograph N ovem ber 10,1960;
follow-up photographs, N ovem ber 2 9 , 1961.
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F i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie ty
seem right out of the tropics. A majority of
the junior girls wore floor length gowns.
Some of the more talented made their own
gowns. Everyone looked lovely and all had
a wonderful, memorable evening.
May has been a busy month for the
Class of ’64. As an appropriate beginning
for the month of Our Lady, the following
Freshmen were installed as members of
Sodality: Misses Angie Jendryka, Joan
Johnson, Maryelen Jones, and Barbara
Mullin, as permanent or life-long members;
and Misses Mitzi Ailing, Marie Antush, JoAnn Courtney, Joyce Frederick, Karen
Fredricksen, Jan Holter, and Donna Martin,
as temporary members. Following the in
stallations with Father Logan presiding,
the Sodalists had breakfast in the school
library.
On Sunday, die St. Joe’s Student Body
participated in a procession, recitation of
the Rosary, and Benediction in honor of
our Blessed Mother. Freshman statuebearers included Miss JoAnn Courtney,
Marie Antush and Angie Jendryka. Miss
Marilyn St. Onge was chosen as the May
Queen.
On April 23rd, Miss Gail Hotchkiss of
the Professional Nurse Licensing Depart
ment was here to survey the school. School
life is always a busy one. Even during the
summer the faculty plans to work hard in
the continued improvement of the School
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March 26, 27, and 28 marked another
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licensing team, Miss Sally Heitman, Nurs
ing Consultant, and Mr. James A. Bessey,
Sanitarian, visited us.
During National Hospital Week, May
6-12, Lakewood General Hospital cele
brated its first anniversary.
In recognition of these events the women
of the Greater Lakewood Area were invited
to attend a tea in our hospital staff library,
Saturday, May 5 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. This invitation was also extended to
our women employees and the wives of
our male employees. The theme of Hos
pital Week this year was “Uniting Science
and Patient Care”. We carried out this
theme, in part, by the use of displays and
tours, of selected departments. We also
encouraged membership in the Women’s
Auxiliary as an important part of our hos
pital team.
Displayed in the main entrance of the
hospital is the American Flag so generously
given by the Altrusa Club of Lakewood.
Formal dedication ceremonies were per
formed.
In keeping with the theme ‘‘Keep Lake
wood Beautiful” Brownie Troops 122 and
132, Intermediate Girl Scout Troop 482,
planted three rose bushes at the west end
of the hospital lawn.
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Senator John G. Tower of Texas, and
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Louisiana will be two of the top speakers
at the $25-a-pIate banquet given by the
American Medical Political Action Com
mittee Sunday, June 24th, at 7 p.m. in the
Grand Ballroom of Chicago’s Palmer
House.
Physicians and their wives, as well as
others interested in political education and
action by the medical profession, were
urged by Dr. Gunnar Gundersen, AMPAC’s
chairman, to attend the banquet and par
ticipate in other activities scheduled for
the day. Doctor Gundersen said more than
750 persons were expected to join Senator
Tower and Representative McSween at din
ner, reservations for which are now being
made through AMPAC, 520 No. Michigan
Ave., Chicago 11, Illinois.
“Many physicians and their wives who
had planned to arrive Monday for the
AMA’s 111th Annual Meeting have now
re-arranged their schedules to arrive Sat
urday or Sunday,” Doctor Gundersen said.
“The profession is fast awakening to the
need for effective, concerted political ac
tion. This is evidenced by tire snowballing
support being given state political action
committees and AMPAC itself.
“The program scheduled in Chicago is
arousing unusual interest, and we believe
that those who take part in the activities
scheduled will find their time well spent.”
After a closed breakfast meeting of
AMPAC’S National Advisory Committee, at
which a representative of every state will
be present, a working session on political
education and action—from 9:30 a.m. until
noon—will be opened to physicians, their
wives, and others. Nationally prominent
speakers will address the group on sub
jects of immediate political importance.
Dinner will conclude the day’s program.
Senator Tower is the first Republican to
be elected to the Senate from Texas since
Reconstruction, and the only Republican
Senator ever elected by popular vote from
any of the former Confederate states. He
is the only Senator to serve on the influ
ential Senate Republican Policy Commit
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also announced at tliis meeting.
AU XILIARY O F F IC E R S — 1962-1963
The traditional passing of the gavel was
President ....................... —.........
Mrs. Herman S. Judd
accomplished gracefully as new President
President-Elect ----------------Mrs.PhilipGrenley
1st Vice-President ___ ___ ____ Mrs. Robert \V. Osbome
Jeanne Judd took office and introduced the
2nd Vice-President .......................... Mrs. Dudley W. Houtz
members of her new Board. The many very
3rd Vice-President .................... .
.. Mrs. Leo F. Sulkosky
4th Vice-President .... ......
— Mrs. M. J. Wicks
accomplished women who have offered to
Recording Secretary
........_.............. Mrs. Robert P. Crabill
serve on Jeanne’s Board, and the variety
........ Mrs. Jack Mandeville
Treasurer ... —...................... .....
Mrs. llaskel L. Maier
of interests and areas they represent indi
Mrs. Glenn H. Brokaw
Assistant Treasurer ....................
American Medical Education
cate that Jeanne plans to draw more Aux
Foundation ______________
Mrs. Galen II. Hoover
iliary members into active participation in
National Bulletin
...................... Mrs. Robert A. Kallsen
Civil Defense and Safety ........... Mrs. Thomas II. Skrinar
our program this next year. The members
Historian . --- ---- ---- --- ----- Mrs. Herbert C. Kennedy
Legislative
................... Mrs. George C. Gilman and
who were present at this meeting had an
Mrs. Samuel E. Adams
opportunity to express their preferences as
Membership ----- ----- Mrs. Robert C. Johnson and
Mrs. Myron A. Bass
to the type of meetings we will have this
Paramedical
.........................
Mrs. Leonard Morley
Mrs. Joseph B. Harris
Program.........................
next year, and it would seem Auxiliary’s
Publicity
—
........................ Mrs. Thomas A. Smeall
emphasis will swing a little toward the
Bulletin
.......................... ...... ....... ..Mrs. George A. Race
Revisions........................................... Mrs. Kenneth E. Gross
Social. This, of course, is one purpose of
Social------------ -------- --------- -M rs. James L. Vadheim
our organization, to welcome new doctors’
Speakers Bureau
........... ....... .........Mrs, John J. Bonica
Telephone......................................... Mrs. Stanley W. Tuell
wives to our community.
Minute Women----------- ...Mrs. Frank J. Rigos and
Mrs. Wayne W. Zimmerman
President Jeanne announced that invita
Community Service and
tions
will be sent to new Board members
Council
____
Mrs. Elmer W. Wahlber"
Heart
__________
... Mrs. H. A. Anderson
for the summer Board meeting, to be held
Cancer .... ....................
Finance..................... .....
Mrs. Kenneth E. Gross
at 10:00 the morning of June 22nd at her
Dance ................... .........
Mrs. Aha Miller and
home
in Lakewood. Board members . . .
Mrs. William Rademaker
Fashion Show ............ Mrs. Thomas O. Murphy and
bring
your
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Mrs. William W. Mattson, Jr.
Mental Health.....................
Mrs. John M. Havlina
be called to order around that lovely tur
'loday’s Health---------------..Mrs.
Bernard A. Rowen
quoise pool in Jeanne’s patio.
Cook Book .............
Mrs. Thomas B. Murphy and
Auxiliary’s last meeting of the year,
luncheon May 18th at the Doric, was
Auxiliary’s most effective business-wise and
was the most spectacular program of the
year. The wonderful hat fashion show pro
duced and narrated by Marge Wicks, with
really clever and apt original hat creations
made and modeled by the Board members,
was viewed by few, however, and so was
presented again that evening at the Auxil
iary dance. Spectacular at noon luncheon,
and a spectacle at midnight.
Auxiliary business was brisk that day, as
financial wizard Ruth Brooke and her
Finance committee, Hilda Lantiere and
Gladys Hanson presented to the Board for
approval and then to the membership for
an affirmative vote, a new and much better
plan for our nurses scholarships. The mem
bership voted to present four $200 scholar
ships this next year, one second year nurs
ing scholarship and one third year to each
of Tacoma General and Saint Joseph’s Hos
pitals, for a total of $800.
Our contribution to AMEF of $417, a
little over two dollars per member, was
The Dance
Along with everything else that week
end, sailboat races, horse shows, medical
meetings, C-21 guests, and just tired blood,
prospects for Auxiliary’s annual fund
raising dance on May ISth palled as the
night grew' near. Only the very aggressive
salesmanship on the part of some ticketselling husbands, and the excellently plan
ned chain of cocktail parties proceeding
the affair, brought out the tremendous and
gay crowd seen there that night. The dance
committee, laboring under every kind of
handicap, should all be awarded brownie
badges for this.
Having been invited to only one of the
many cocktail parties given before the
dance, Bulletin can only report on the
glittering affair held at Kennedy’s home,
co-hosted by the Mays, which was one of
the most delightful gatherings of the sea
son. There we met Doctor Bryant Archer,
sort of a British Ben Casey, his attrac
tive wife was also there however. We also
met two wonderful young couples intern
ing at Mountain View, the Ron Cudeks
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and the John Teays, from Indiana. We met
the prettiest girl in town, Billie Waneck,
who is from San Antonio, and her husband
Doctor Don. Doctor and Mrs. James Boudwin we met there, he specializes in twists,
and did a very neat twist with Nadine
Kennedy later at the dance.
C-21 Revisited
After seeing the Fair, Bulletin couldn’t
help but comment on the report we had
done previous to its opening. Re-reading
our April issue, we find several glaring
mistakes, such as the monorail ride being
free on the admission ticket, it isn’t. And
there isn’t any place in the Fine Arts
Pavillion to take a nap. However some
people sleep on their feet while viewing
die Art exhibits there.
One artist in our party was quite im
pressed with a painting just inside the
entry, a large yellow splotch on a black
canvas. He cleared his throat while scan
ning it, very descriptively, and said, “Mom,
you couldn’t do a painting like that. It
would take Mickey Mantle at thirty yards
to get that splotch.”
This comment hung with us for awhile
as we appraised framed gunney-sacks and
such, with the realization that more edu
cated tastes than ours really appreciate this
Art.
On with the Fair, it is all quite wonder
ful! Sorry we only bought nine thousand
dollars worth of advance-sale tickets. The
Doctors of Pierce County and their fam
ilies will probably enjov buying ten times
tiiat amount of tickets before the Fair
closes. The fact is, most of the best tilings
at the Fair are free, those that aren’t free
are delicious and reasonably-priced. The
Payel at the Spanish Village is beyond
description, and while eating there you are
completely disjointed by the most exciting
of all entertainments, the Flemenco
dancers.
While still glazed of eye over the Fle
menco dancers, we talked to Jeanne Vad
heim, just back from a most fabulous tour
of southern Europe. The Vadheims saw
the Flemenco in Seville, and the real Fle
menco dancers in Madrid are gypsies. The
Spaniards might just be dining on eels
while they’re watching this in Madrid.
Jeanne Vadheim did, says the slippery eels
are tasteless. Jeanne also ate squid served
in its own ink in Madrid. This is something
on the menu there like fried chicken here.
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The Vadheims were guests of a doctor in
Madrid, a friend of John Bonica s.
Jeanne saw' a lot the seven weeks they
traveled southern Europe. They planned
carefully before they took the tour, but
couldn’t make arrangements for the wea
ther, which Jeanne said was mostly bad.
In Cannes they had accommodations at
the chateau of a White Russian Countess,
but arrived in a blinding rainstorm, driv
ing up to what looked like a Charles Adams
cartoon, a formidible mansion of the
haunted-tvpe. A little old man in a striped
vest jumped out to buttle, he later changed
to a white coat to serve dinner, the next
morning appeared in a white smock to
light the fire in their bedrooms, then back
to the striped vest as butler as quick as
Jack Robinson. The Countess was very
regal and melancholy. The food was excel
lent, but tiiere was no heating in the cha
teau and no hot water. It was cold and
rained die whole time they were on the
French Riviera, they had a much more
pleasant stay on the Italian Riviera. They
thought Capri and the Bay of Naples the
most beautiful spot anywhere. Jeanne
loved Paris, felt a week there wasn’t
enough, and would like to go back.
But in talking to Jeanne, it seemed she
always returned to Spain and Portugal for
her superlatives. The Ritz Hotel in Lisbon
is the most elegant she’s seen, and the food
there the best in die world. The Alhambra
Palace in Granada was the most unique.
The Spanish women were the most beau
tiful, they were all better-looking and bet
ter groomed than the French or Italian
women.
Back to the Fair, those young Spanish
waiters at the Fiesta are handsome. Our
blonde fourteen-year-old got the thrill of
21 centuries when the handsome waiter
asked if she would like wine. She replied
charmingly in Spanish, but Doctor Dad
almost broke his wrist putting his hand
over her glass. Meanwhile the Flemenco
dancers whirled on.
The Charles Larsons took their children
over to see the Fair on their boat, spent
the weekend there without worrying about
overnite accommodations or traffic on the
way home. Margaret says the weekend was
just a glimpse.
The Bischoffs have been twice and say
they've just begun to look around. They
first saw the Fair with W ibby’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Pouch from Staten Island,
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who visited the Bischofis two weeks. Doc
tor Bischoff’s mother will visit here from
the Hague, Holland in August.
The Fair is Big. Five Kallsens and five
Durkins farmed out over the fairgrounds
for ten hours one day without paths ever
crossing.
Marilyn Mandeville’s parents, the
Thomases from Phoenix, Arizona, will be
here the end of this month to see the Fair.
They’ll also baby-sit with the Mandeville
children while Marilyn and Jack jet to
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Some of the best Fair publicity for Ta
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Stanley Tuell, and such readable intelli
gence as the Hospital news columns.
For those who felt Women’s Auxiliary
News was a little racey for tills dignified
publication . . . hold onto your hats . . .
beginning next month it will be Peg Race-y.
Our good friend and neighbor, Peggy Race,
will be Auxiliary News Editor for the Bul
letin this next year.
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Report on State Health
Mobilization Course
University of W ashington
March 22nd through 24th
C.D. Civil Defense. Civil Disaster. Just
those two words and we shrink away from
the very thought of it. The whole idea of
a Civil Disaster is so horrible our minds
straightaway produce a hysterical anes
thetic and obliterate it. We don’t want to
think about it. We rationalize that it just
couldn’t happen here, not to us . . . things
are pretty good right now . . . we’re just
not interested in Civil Defense! Let some
one else do something about it . . . we
have so many other more pleasant things
to do and plan . . . the dance coming up
. . . and so while we are suspended in an
anesthetic state comfortably enjoying all the
benefits of living in our wonderful country,
“the Communists have snaked their way
into Hungary, then Cuba and our citizens,
you and I, go gaily on our way carrying
every type of insurance there is except
C.D.; it lias no cash-in or surrender value.”
Thus spoke Mr. Charles G. Ralls, director
of the Washington State Medical Associa
tion Civil Disaster Committee, in his key
note speech.
Mr. Ralls went on to say, “We can’t sur
vive if we criticize every move made to
survive. The United States must unite, grow
up, plan and go forward to meet the chal
lenge we face. We must create positive
thinking and patriotic American action and
remember that indifference led to the
downfall of Rome, Greece and other great
civilizations.”
Following Mr. Ralls advice to use posi
tive thinking, let us for a moment clear our
minds of all prejudices and former thoughts
on Civil Disaster. Make it a clean slate.
Now, let’s take a fresh look at Civil Dis
aster. For one thing, this does not neces
sarily mean a nuclear explosion, though
that is the greatest threat. It means any
kind of disaster that may occur in our com
munity such as flood, earthquake, air crash,
accidental missile explosion, etc.
“Home Preparedness” means not only to
be prepared to care for your own family,
but to help in the over-all community plan
for handling any Civil Disaster. We do not
have a sufficient number of physicians, nor
do we have adequate hospital facilities to
care for any sizeable number of casualties.
There is not a hospital in the SeattleTacoma area that can handle 10 major
casualties at one time. And if some of our
hospitals and doctors are lost in a disaster,
how will hundreds or maybe even thou
sands of casualties be cared for? That is
why we have 1800, 200-bed hospitals
stored throughout the country, 44 in the
State of Washington at a cost of $20,000
each and 750 more to be purchased in the
near future at $45,000 each.
Since the physicians and nurses we have
would not be nearly enough to care for
mass casualties, it is necessary that we have
training courses for the various para-medi
cal groups so that they can function in
medical capacities in these 200 bed Emer
gency hospitals. Therefore, the surgeon
who operates on you during a disaster may
actually be a dentist who has been trained
to do emergency surgery in a time of
disaster.
The newest idea in Civil Disaster train
ing is teaching individuals the principles of
self-help through “Medical Self-Help”, a
do-it-yourself type of program. Laymen,
even teenagers can be taught life-saving
techniques and basic survival until the help
of a physician can be obtained. Public
availability’ of this manual will soon be
made possible and it is hoped that all mem
bers of the Medical Auxiliary and their
families will avail themselves of this “Medi
cal Self-Help” training course. People who
have this training could manage the psy
chologically disturbed, deliver babies, and
operate dispensary-type treatment stations.
“Medical Self-Help” kits can be obtained
through local Civil Defense offices for train
ing teachers.
As a Medical Auxiliary, we have been
given a small but very important part in
the State Civil Defense plan. We should
make every effort to do our part well. We
are asked to cooperate with other commun
ity' organizations in encouraging the popu
lation to engage in individual and collec
tive survival preparations and training. As
individuals, physician’s wives are charged
with the responsibility for so preparing
their own. homes for Emergency that their
husbands may be available for full partici
pation in the Medical Plan for Emergency
Action. This requires carrying out the fol
lowing steps for survival outlined in the
Home Preparedness Program:
(a) Know the Warning Signals and
What they mean.
(b ) Know the Community Plan for
Emergency Action.
(c) Have Prepared a Family Shelter
Area.
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(d) Have Equipment for Emergency
Cooking, Heating and Lighting.
(e) Know what to do about Radioactive
Fallout.
(f) Have a two week supply of food
and water.
(g) Be prepared to purify unsafe water.
(h) Have a Battery Radio not depen
dant on a commercial source of power.
(i) Know the Conelrad Stations.
(j) Have a First Aid Kit.
(k) Have Emergency clothing and
blankets.
(1) Have Emergency Morale supplies,
(m) Do Fire preventive housekeeping
and have emergency Fire Fighting plans
and equipment.
(n) Have Emergency Sanitation Plans
and Preparations.
(o) Have plans for evacuation in ac
cordance with Community plan.
(p) Have preparations for evacuation:
Automobile evacuation kit with food, water,
first aid kit, battery or car radio, blankets;
car in good order.
(q) Have a Family Emergency Plan
with which all members of the family are
familiar.
(r) Maintain Preparations Current with
State and Local Plans.
Physicians’ wives who are nurses, dental
and medical technologists, medical social
workers or who possess training in any of
the other field classified in the A.M.A. re
port on National Emergency Medical Care
as qualified to assist the Medical profes
sion and who would be free from family
responsibilities should:
(a) Avail themselves of all possible spe
cial Medical Civil Disaster training offered
to members of their Professional Groups.
(b) Register for Emergency Service
with their local Medical Civil Defense Di
rector and receive an assignment.
(c) Report to their stations as quickly as
possible after a disaster.
If, because of family responsibilities they
could not report immediately but at a later
stage following an emergency, they should
register as stated above. Physicians’ wives
not possessing medical skills but who would
be able to perform clerical or other non
medical work such as decontamination
should offer their services to their Medical
Civil Disaster Director or to the County
Civil Defense Director.
Now let’s take a fresh look at “Fallout
Shelters.” Many people mistake this to
mean a bomb shelter. It is not! No one is
asking you to prepare a bomb shelter! If
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you are near the blast, your worries are
over whether you are in a shelter or not. A
“Fallout Shelter” is just that—protection
from radioactive fallout. If you survive a
nuclear blast and experts in the field of
nuclear warfare have agreed that in the
event of a major attack upon our country,
90$ of our people could survive if prepared;
you are not just going to stand out in the
open, let the radioactive dust rain down on
you and lie down and die. As Dr. Coggins
of Sacramento, California, told us, “There
is nothing noble about being stupid.” So
what are you going to do? Well, if you have
a nice comfortable Fallout Shelter sup
plied for two weeks you and your family
can cozily survive while the concrete and
earth above you protect you from the
deadly radiation. Following a blast, your
children will have time to get home from
school because you will have apporixmately
1 to 2 hours before the fallout would be
dense enough to case damage. This will
also give you time to get the last minute
things you think of that you need and no
one will panic if everyone has a job to do.
According to Dr. Coggins in his report,
we have always been bombarded with a
certain amount of radiation from the atmos
phere and man usually gets about 9 R’s in a
lifetime from his surroundings. The goal
in this country is to hold radiation down to
13 R’s per person per 30 days, since the
average young American receives some radition in medical and dental X-rays, indus
tries, plants, surroundings and testing fall
out today.
Some persons would be more susceptible
to radiation sickness than others. The rays
are very disturbing to the molecules of our
bodies, it’s like dropping grains of sand
through a large chicken wire since our
bodies are 1 part solid and 9,000 parts
nothing.
Our best protection from radiation is dis
tance, shielding and time. Best protection
from flash burns is in wearing light colored
clothing, shielding and do not get curious
and look at the fireball.
Since fallout drifts from the blast with
the prevailing winds in a cigar-shaped pat
tern, 90% of the area near a blast would be
fairly free of heavy fallout afterward.
A Fallout Shelter need not be expensive.
All that is needed is a mass of dense mate
rial between you and radiation. Five feet of
dirt or sand or one foot of concrete is con
sidered most adequate. But in an emer
gency, even stacks of magazines and books
on a table offer some protection. Lt. Col.
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o f the
Nelson, director of Military Medicine and
Surgery at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, stated,
“Survival is a matter of training and knowl
edge. Protection is dirt, distance and time.”
Many thoughts have been expressed
about Civil Defense. Some say that as
Christians we should trust in God to pro
tect us. This is true but just as the parable
of the 10 virgins, five of whom were pre
pared with oil in their lamps and the five
who were not, perhaps God expects us to
help ourselves and not leave it all up to
Him. I once heard a minister preach this
truth and as an example he said, “If a fire
started right here by the pulpit, I wouldn’t
stand here and pray, ‘Oh, God, put out the
fire.’ I’d grab the fire extinguisher in the
hall and go poosh . . . poosh . . . poosh!
When the fire was out, I'd say, thank you
God for helping me save the church.
Another popular idea is that our enemies
would not bomb us because they want our
beautiful cities without destroying them
and you are so right! But as Dr. Coggins
stated, “Can we trust a man who pounds
his shoe on the desk or shouts in a rage at
the Mayor of Los Angeles, “We will bury
you!” . . . not to destroy what he wants
most in a fit of anger? Of course they do
not want to destroy our cities. Dr. Coggins
was assigned to accompany the Russians
on their tour of America and he said, “You
should have seen their eyes pop at all the
tilings we have.” But according to Dr. Cog
gins the Communists do not want us, they
only want our-things. Lovely new cars full
of gas, beautiful buildings and homes all
equipped with deep freeze, washer, dryer,
colored T.V., things they don’t have in
Russia but which Mr. K. has promised his
people.
“Again clear your mind of prejudices,
says Dr. Coggins. If you have a loved pet
that is old and sick what is the most humane
way you think of to put him out of his
misery? Yes, Gas. Could our enemies be
planning to use ‘sneakers’ . . . sneakers
that kill only living tissue but not things?
Gas or biological warfare? Why did they
accuse us of using it in Korea—to ease their
conscience if and when they use it? Whole
cities could be wiped out with just a fine
mist in the air that could not be seen, felt
or tasted. Why has Russia immunized 30
million of her own people in this way
against deadly germs?”
: Well, Dr. Coggins certainly gave us
something new to think about! And he
pointed out that again our Fallout Shelters,
the more poorly ventilated the better, or
ones with filtered air would protect us
along with masks, protective clothing, keep
ing shots up to date, and atropine to inject
in massive doses to counteract gas poison
ing. He pointed out that Clorox in the water
changes the ph to inactivate or detoxify
nerve gases and bacterial agents.
The last day of the meeting, the demon
stration of a 200 bed Emergency Hospital
in operation by the 50th General Hospital
U. S. A. R., Seattle, at the Armory was very
interesting. The mock casualties were so
realistically “made-up” that it turned one’s
stomach. It was divided into sections for
monitoring, testing for radioactive material
on patients, decontamination, where they
dispose of clothing and wash, triage which
is sorting to decide what treatment is neces
sary, shock and minor treatment area, oper
ating room, etc. This demonstration was
rated excellent by national observers in
their critique.
We all took part in a very realistic opera
tional problem in which nuclear explosions
took place over Portland, Tacoma and be
tween Bremerton and Seattle. Our problem
was how to protect the people in Seattle
from fallout radiation, set up Emergency
Hospitals and care for the wounded stream
ing from near the areas wiped out, and
how to save the most lives in the shortest
time.
From all this, my own conclusion was
that at a time of such a disaster and chaos,
we cannot expect much help or direction
from anyone else immediately, so our best
protection is to be prepared to take care
of our own families as best we can and help
others near us.
— M rs . R o b e r t R. B u r t,
Medical Auxiliary Civil
Defense Chairman.
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O F F IC E R S
President _____________
—.................. G. M. Whitacre
President-Elect ........................................... Stanley W. Tuell
Vice-President .......................
Frederick
J. Schwind
Secretary-Treasurer
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Arnold J. Herrmann
Executive Secretary .... ______
Judy Gordon
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Public relations is something we work at all the time, consciously
or unconsciously, in our contacts with patients. The Public Relations
Committee of the Medical Society is pursuing an active program of
promoting medical education through the various news media.
One area where we can improve our public relations through
individual effort is in the filling out of medical forms. Recently we
have been made aware of a Social Security Administration survey
which indicated that, considering the nation as a whole, “inordinate
delays in awarding monthly benefits to disabled people are traceable
to: 1) physicians’ delays in returning medical report, 2) incomplete
ness of the medical reports furnished.”
Although it would not be unreasonable to assume that there are
other causes for delay in the processing of these claims, we should
do our best to fill our Social Security disability forms promptly and
in enough detail so that our patients’ claims will not be unnecessarily
delayed. While most physicians already do submit adequate reports
promptly, there is room for improvement by the minority.
The preparation of a comprehensive report such as the Social
Security Administration desires requires time, effort and perhaps
re-examination of the patient. Many patients are not aware that it is
their responsibility to pay for the submission of these reports (even
though it is so stated on the government forms.) I believe that in most
cases a fee should be charged to the patient for this service. Mr.
Neusbaum, the Tacoma District assistant manager for the Social
Security Administration, has given assurance that each applicant for
Social Security disability will be informed by the desk clerk in their
office verbally of his or her financial responsibility to the personal
physician for reports submitted.
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Our scientific minds have little room for tolerance toward an
individual who refuses blood transfusion on religious grounds. In a
real emergency, such a patient seems to be ungratefully thwarting
the physician’s efforts to help him, and at the same time forcing the
physician into a frustrating conflict between scientific, ethical, moral
and legal issues. Though I am completely intolerant of a parent’s
refusal to let his child’s life be saved with the administration of blood,
I can find a certain glimmer of something refreshing in a person’s
refusal to have blood for himself.
Here, in Century 20, is someone will to die for a principle, with
out glory or dramatics. Novels, stage productions, movie spectaculars,
history books— laud the heroes of the past who were willing to die
for a principle— the Patrick Henry’s, the Joan of Arc’s, the Christians
persecuted by the Romans. Surely the scientists and realists of Century
1 must have questioned the sanity of a person who would let himself
be thrown to the lions rather than simply deny his label of “Christian”.
We’ve glorified as heroic martyrs those people who died in ignominy,
ridiculed by the saner majority. In that century and in this, each as
but a fleeting second against the millions of years gone by and yet
to come, who can rightfully judge who is right, who is the hero, which
sacrifice is worthy, which ridiculous? I cannot.
So, though we cannot agree with the person who refuses trans
fusion, and though we call such a decision unreasonable and fool
hardy, perhaps we can find in ourselves some degrees of respect and
admiration for a person willing to calmly accept death in defense
of a principle. Perhaps in our smug impatience with such an obviously
ridiculous principle, we miss the real lesson. Perhaps the g&od guys
in the world—meaning us, of course— would overcome the bad guys
a little sooner if more of us were willing to make a comparable sacrifice
for the principles in which we believe.
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Dr. Kenneth D. Graham, Jr.
Dr. Fletcher J. Pomeroy
Dr. Graham was born in Aberdeen,
Washington on May 20, 1930. He received
his degree from George Washington Uni
versity School of Medicine in 1956 and
interned at San Joaquin General Hospital
in Stockton, California; his postgraduate
training was taken at Swedish Hospital in
Seattle.
Dr. Graham entered general practice in
Pierce County in September, 1961 with
offices in the Medical Arts Building. He
and his wife, Beverly, and their two young
sons live at 1447 North Winifred.
Dr. Pomeroy was born in Hartford, Con
necticut on January 4, 1927. He received
his degree from Harvard Medical School
in June, 1954 and interned at Salt Lake
County General Hospital; his residencies
were taken at the University of Colorado
Medical Center in Denver and at the Uni
versity' of Washington.
Dr. Pomeroy began practice in Pierce
County July 5, 1960; he is a specialist in
Neurology with offices at 6018 Mt. Tacoma
Drive, S.W.
Development, Regulation
A nd Utilization of
Sources of Ionizing
Radiation
In the spring of 1960, an act was passed
in Washington State with the above title.
This was done: (1) for the protection of
public health and safety; (2) to enable the
United States Government, through the
Atomic Energy Commission to turn as
many of its functions back to the State
level as possible and (3) to promote a pro
gram to permit maximum utilization of
sources of ionizing radiation within the
state consistent with health and safety of
the public. The act made the State Depart
ment of Health the State Radiation Con
trol Agency under its director, Dr. Bucove.
The act provided that the director, with
the approval of the governor, appoint a
Technical Advisory Board on Radiation
Control (TAB RAC). The nine members ap
pointed to TABRAC are to provide repre
sentation of the healing arts, research, in
dustry and other users of ionizing radiation
or experts in any field of physiological ef
fects of ionizing radiation. TABRAC has
responsibility to advise on matters of pol
icy and approve rules and regulations
under the directorship of Dr. Bucove. Shoefitting fluoroscopes are outlawed.
Drs. Norman Bolker, Spokane; Edward
Cadman, Wenatchee; and David Christie,
Seattle, represent the medical profession;
Dr. Cecil Feasel, of Seattle, represents the
state dentists. Reverend Joseph P. Nealen,
J.S., Spokane; H. M. Parker of the Hanford
Atomic Energy Project; W. H. Hannah of
Bremerton; and Peter Wooton of Seattle
add their knowledge of the basic physics
and health sciences. Mr. Leo H. Long of
Tacoma represents the industries in the
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state that use ionizing sources of radiation.
It is hoped that the services of a health
physicist, certified by the American Board
of Health Physics, will be available to the
Department in carrying out its responsi
bilities, when the need develops.
The universities in the state are, or prob
ably will be, involved in the field of nuclear
physics and these activities will probably
expand in scope. Boeing might be dealing
with atomic fuels in the future. Besides the
x-ray machines of the healing arts and in
dentistry within the state, there are about
140 AEC licensees in the state and 165
from other areas authorized to bring mate
rial into the state for temporary use.
Most of the states are participating in a
Radiation Surveillance Network (RSN).
This program was established by the Pub
lic Health Service on contract to the Atomic
Energy Committee in 1956. It is now en
tirely PHS responsibility at the federal level
and is dependent upon the states for opera
tion. This survey information of environ
mental contamination is pooled and evalu
ated nationally. Air sampling, rain and sur
face waters, plant food and milk are studied
for amount^ and kinds of radioactivity.
Since 1958, dentists throughout the state
have been participating in surveys of their
office x-ray equipment. By means of film
pack surveys and a method called Sur-Pak,
helpful recommendations are being made
to the dentists to improve the safety of their
machines. They are in full cooperation widi
the project. On the intial survey there were
about 70% of the x-ray machines that needed
additional filtration and 43% needed addi
tional coning devices.
TABRAC is in the process of formulating
plans for the registration of all ionizing
sources of radiation widlin the state. Within
six to twelve months, registration forms
will be sent to all persons and/or companies
within the state that posesss sources of
ionizing radiation.
The law is not set up to dictate to the
medical profession how and when radia
tion may be used for medical purposes.
If there are any comments, questions or
suggestions from members of the medical
profession, please direct them to one of die
members of TABRAC.
P.
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one roof . . . a modem hospital, fully
equipped laboratories, prescription pharmacy,
optical store, fine auditorium, new restaurant,
medical supply house, Pierce County Medical
Society office and library . . . PLUS
more than 500 parking spaces within a half
block of the building. We invite your inquiry.
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Here's Your Number,
Mem orize It!
For the benefit of those physicians who
may have forgotten their “call numbers”
during the long, cold winter, the list is
published below. Baseball fans in particu
lar take note, as doctors are paged only by
call numbers at Cheney Field.
Call No.
101
383
102
103
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
390
131
132
133
134
135
136
138
Doctor
Adams, Samuel
Alger, John
Allison, Claris
Allison, Donald
Anderson, Edward R.
Anderson, Horace A.
Annest, Leo
Apa, Theodore
Arnold, Charles B.
Avery, William B.
Backup, Phillip
Bader, Bernard A.
Banfield, E. E.
Barronian, Richard F.
Baskin, Lester S.
Bass, Myron A.
Batey, George
Benson, Joseph A.
Betteridge, Bryce
Bias, Robert
Bischoff, G. W.
Bland, Leland
Blankenship, James
Blizard, Eldon C.
Bogue, Charles
Bond, Robert G.
Bondo, Paul E.
Bonica, John J.
Boudwin, James W.
Bowen, J. W.
Brachvogel, Max
Brigham Lawrence
Brokaw, Glenn
Brooke, J. Robert
Brown, Burton A.
Brown, Robert W.
Brown, William C.
Burrows, William
Call No.
139
140
141
142
384
143
144
145
146
147
149
150
151
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
391
166
392
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
385
393
Doctor
Burt, Robert R.
Buttorff, Douglas
Cameron, Walter C.
Camp, Harry W.
Chambers, Robert M.
Clark, Thomas H.
Clay, Homer
Colen, John
Colley, Russell
Comfort, John F.
Crabill, Robert P.
Cummings, Don
Davis, Richard T.
Delaney, G. A.
Deming, J. Edmund
Denzler, Charles
Dietrich, Carlisle
Dille, Rodger S.
Di Furia, Giulio
Dimant, Stevens
Doherty, Dale
Drucker, Gerhart
Duerfeldt, Treacy
Duffy, James P.
Durkin, L. Stanley
Dye, David F.
Early, James
Ehrlich, Albert
Ekman, Carl
Ellis, Raymond O.
Eltrich, Martin
Erickson, J. J.
Eylander, Edward S.
Fairbourn, Edwin J.
Fargher, Cecil R.
Ferguson, Robert M.
Florence, Robert W.
Flynn, John R.
Freeman, Robert M.
Frese Amaly
Galbraith, Charles
Gay-Balmaz, Rene
Geissler, Gerald
Gerstmann, Paul E.
Gibson, Robert H.
Gilman, George C.
Godfroy, Nicolas
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y o u r S c h e rin g R e p re s e n ta tiv e or
M e d ic al S e rv ic e s D e p a rtm e n t,
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Call No.
183
394
395
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
396
389
207
208
209
210
' 311
212
213
214
215
397
216
217
218
219
220
398
221
222
223
Doctor
Goering, William
Graham, Donald
Graham, Kenneth
Granquist, Carl O.
Grenley, Philip
Griffin, Hillis F.
Gross, Kenneth E.
Guilfoil, Erna
Gullikson, John W.
Hadfield, Dale
Haley, T. R.
Hanson, Eugene W.
Harrelson, Orvis A.
Harrington, B. D.
Harris, Joseph B.
Hathaway, Stillman
Hauser, William P.
Havlina, John M.
Hazelrigg, James E.
Heaton, A. B.
Hellyer, David T.
Hennings, Frank W.
Herrmann, Arnold J.
Herrman, S. F.
Hess, George H.
Hoover, Galen
Hopkins, David S.
Iiori, Kiyoaky
Hosie, M. R.
Hoskins, Franz P.
Houtz, Dudley W.
Howe, A. W.
Hoycr, Louis P.
Hoyt, Wallace P.
Huff, Ralph H.
Humiston, Homer W.
Hunt, Leo J.
Irvin Michael
James, Frank J.
Jarvis, Joseph B.
Johansson, Arnold W.
Johnson, David H.
Johnson, Murray L.
Johnson, Ralph
Johnson, Robert C.
Johnston, Harold B.
Jones, Scott S.
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Call No.
224
225
226
227
228
229
399
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
400
386
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
257
258
261
262
Doctor
Judd, Herman S.
Kahler, Harold F.
Kalkus, J. Hugh
Kallsen, Robert
Kanar, Edmund A.
Kanda, John M.
Kase, Sidney
Kass, Myron
Kemp, Charles E.
Kemman, John F.
Kennedy, Herbert C.
Kittredge, George S.
Klein, Robert
Kohl, Gerald C.
Kohler, D. G.
Kunz, George G. R.
Kyle, Philip C.
Lane, Robert E.
Lantiere, S. Robert
Lantz, Calvin R.
Larkin, Hugh A.
Larson, Charles P.
Larson, Vernon
Larsen, Marion Martha
Larsen, Virginia
Lasby, Joseph O.
Lawley, Thomas B.
Lawrence, Mills E.
Lee, Jack W.
Liewer, John P.'
Light, Samuel E.
Link, Richard B.
Ludwig, William H.
Lueken, Harold D.
Lundvick, Cyril V.
McBride, Glenn
McCabe, Edward F.
McGill, Charles M.
McGreal, Robert
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£ £ Treatment results were good,
and in many cases a dramatic response was
noted. Many of the cases had previously
failed to respond to various types of therapy
including, in some instances, other topical
corticosteroid preparations. 5 9
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A look at the prod u cts —Cordran
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contains 0.5 mg. Cordran.
Cordran™-N cream and ointment combine Cordran and the widespectrum antibiotic, neomycin. Each Gm. contains 0.5 mg. Cordran
and 5 mg. neomycin sulfate (equivalent to 3.5 mg. base). Cordran-N is
particularly useful in steroid-responsive dermatoses complicated by
potential or actual skin infections.
All forms are supplied in 7.5 and 15-Gm. tubes.
Cordran"’-N{flurandrenolone w ith neomycin suljatl , Lilly)
This is a reminder advertisement. For adequate infor
mation for use, please consult manufacturer’s literature.
E li L illy and Company, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. 21026a
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Call No.
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
401
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
402
303
304
305
306
307
Doctor
McKay, Donald F.
McNerthney, James E.
McNutt, Harlan P.
McPhail, Ross E.
McPhee, William
Maddison, Frank
Magnussen, Norman
Maier, Haskel L.
Maire, Frederick W.
Maki, Henry E.
Malden, Marcel
Mandeville, Jack W.
Marlatt, D. A.
Marshall, Charles E.
Mattson, William W., Jr.
May, Charles W.
May, John S.
Meier, H. Herbert
Moosey, George A.
Morain, S. S.
Morley, Leonard
Muir, Edwin C.
Murphy, Thomas 0.
Murphy, Vincent M.
Murray, Douglas H.
Nace, F. M.
Nelson, Everett P.
Nevitt, Donald
Niethammer, W. A.
Norton, R. A.
O’Connell, Robert A.
O’Leary, Arthur P.
Ootkin, B. N.
Osborne, Robert W.
Paine, Frederic O.
Parrott, Gordon
Parrott, Miles
Peters, Frederick M.
Peterson, Wendell G.
Pinto, Sherman S.
Piper, Clinton A.
Pomeroy, Fletcher
Pratt, W. Howard
Race, George M.
Rademaker, William
Randolph, Ernest L.
Read, Jess W.
Call No.
308
310
311
312
313
314
315
403
387
316
318
321
319
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
336
388
379
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
Doctor
Reberger, Charles
Reynolds, Chris
Rich, Richard I.
Rigos, Frank J.
Ritchie, C. B.
Robertson, J. B.
Robson, John T.
Rose, Jerman
Rohner, William L.
Rosenbladt, Louis M.
Rowen, Bernard R.
Scheyer, Carl J.
Sames, Albert A.
Schultz, Alfred W.
Schwind, Frederick J,
Sever, Buel L.
Shaw, John M.
Sheppard, John
Shovlain, Frank E.
Skinner, Lawrence E.
Skrinar, Thomas H.
Sleep, Somers R.
Smeall, Thomas A.
Smith, Paul B.
Smith, Theodore J.
Smith, Warren F.
Sobba, Walter L.
Sparling, David
Spaulding, William
Srail, John
Staatz, Dumont
Staatz, Karl
Steele, John F.
Stevens, Cletus I.
Stuen, M. R.
Sturdevant, Kenneth
Sulkosky, Leo
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Call No.
345
346
347
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
404
357
358
359
360
361
405
406
363
364
366
367
368
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Sullivan, William S.
Tanbara, George A.
Teats, Govnor
Thomas, Daniel J.
Thomas, Leon B.
Thomas, Max S.
Thordarson, S. Stefan
Thuline, H. C.
Todd, William S.
Treleaven, Joseph
Trimble, Charles G.
Truckey, Robert B.
Tuell, Stanley W.
Vadheim, James L.
Van Dooren, Hugo
Vaught, Charles
Vimont, Richard T.
Virak, Roy
Voynow, Robert
Vozenilek, Myra
Vozenilek, Z. Joseph
Wahlberg, Elmer W.
Walloch, Antone
Ward, James F.
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370
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
Doctor
West, Thomas R.
Whitacre, G. Marshall
Wicks, M. J.
Wickstrom, Arthur P.
Willard, Don G.
Wright, Ross D.
Yoachim, Maurice
Yoder, Edwin C.
Zimmerman, Wayne W.
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lie College art classes are these daughters
of Auxiliary members: Valerie Skrinar, Vera
President
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-...........Mrs. H erm an S. Judd
President-Elect __________________ Mrs. Philip Grenley
Davis, Susan Adams and Meagan Race.
1st V ice-President_____________ M rs.R obert W . Osborne
2nd Vice-President..................
Mrs. D udley W . Houtz
Dee Wickstrom reports that her family
3rd V ice-President_________
Mrs. Leo F. Sulkosky
4th Vice-President ___________
Mrs.
M.
J. move
W icks into their new home in mid-July.
will
Recording Secretary ____
Mrs. R obert P. Crabill
Corresponding Secretary........................... Mrs. Jack M andeville The inside changes are all finished, though
Treasurer ___
Mrs. Haskel L. M aier
Assistant T reasu rer
..... _.......... Mrs. Glenn H. Brokaw the outside painting will be done later.
American M edical Education
It’s a boy, William, for Edna and Bob
.................................Mrs; Galen H . Hoover
F o und ation National Bulletin ......................
Mrs.Robert A.Kallsen
Civil Defense and Safety
Mrs. Thom as H. Skrinar Chambers! This makes the count three girls,
H istorian_____________ ___ _ _____Mrs. H erbert C. Kennedy
eight boys. And for Edna, who looks like
Legislative ___________Mrs. George C. Gilm an and
Mrs. Sam uel E. Adams
a sister to her own teen-age daughters, the
Membership....— ..................Mrs. Robert C. Johnson and
Mrs. M yron A. Bass
Param edical------------------------------------- Mrs. L eonard Moriey time was just right. She was the most-imProgram-----------------Mrs. Joseph B. Harris
Publicity
---------Mrs. Govnor Teatsproved bowler in her league last year and
Mrs. George A. Race
Bulletin---------Revisions
Mrs. Kenneth E. Gross now she can get young Billy settled into
Social
_M rs. Jam es L. Vadheim his routine before the next season starts.
Speakers Bureau..
Mrs. John J. Bonica
Telephone_______
..Mrs. Stanley \V. Tuell
Congratulations to Marjeanne Jljdd for
Minute W omen ... -------------Mrs. Frank J. Rigos and
Mrs. W ayne W . Zimmerman winning a music scholarship to Western
C ouncil____________
Mrs. E lm er W . W ahlberg Washington College. Mother and daughter
Heart.
..M rs. H. A. Anderson
Cancer
-----------------Mrs. J. Robert Brooke
Finance—
----- Mrs. Kenneth E. Gross went over to see the campus, came home
D ance__
----------------Mrs. Alva M iller and
Mrs. W illiam Radem aker pleased with what they saw and are busily
Fashion Show__
-M rs. Thom as Q. M uiphy and
Mrs. W illiam W . M attson, Jr.
Mental H ealth _
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AU XILIARY O F F IC E R S — 1962-1963
Today’s H e a lth ..
Cook B ook_____
-----------------Mrs. B ernard A. Rowen
—Mrs. Thom as B. M urphy and
Everybody’s doing it! — having guests
during the summer who will also see the
Fair. Phyllis and Jack Erickson made the
papers recently when their guests (Phyllis’
family from Butte, Montana) and children
were shown in a P.I. news photo. The chil
dren came in two sizes—twin girls, eleven,
and four-year-old triplets. The Erickson’s
also have a four-year-old so the time was
merry but hectic. Phyllis takes crowds with
ease, but says she could now write an ar
ticle called, “Thirteen for Dinner!”
The mothers in the 26th and Junett area
have, for several years, treated their chil
dren to a last day of school” picnic. Marje
Wicks, former resident and still a member
of the neighborhood, invited the group to
Fox Island for this year’s party. It rained a
little, but this did not dampen the fun for
the eight mothers and nearly twenty chil
dren who enjoyed Marje’s warm hospitality.
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planning for September and the beginning
of an exciting college term. The Judd’s son,
Hugh, will spend two quarters of next year
at the Tours, France branch of Stanford. He
will be in Europe through the winter
months and will have his three-week
Chirstmas vacation and long weekends in
which to see and travel through many
countries.
Loma and Bob Burt are planning their
annual pack trip into the mountains. They
will again be going into the Northern Cas
cades, complete with guide and carrying all
of their needs for two weeks on their backs.
Lorna’s description of the mountains,
meadows, alpine flowers, animals, wonder
ful sleeping in the crisp air, makes me wish
I could pack and go along.
At our house we, too, are looking forward
to visitors. The one most awaited by every
one is Miss Ginger Race, 16, half-sister of
George, coming from New York City. The
kids are fascinated by her “genuine” accent
and I expect will do anything to keep her
talking. By Fall we’ll all be trying our
tongues at the Bronx version of the English
language.
Thanks, Mavis, for the kind words. Your
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H O S P IT A L S
Tacoma General
Anna Mae Bod will attend the annual
International Consumers Credit Confer
ence Meeting in Spokane, June 21 through
June 26. This conference will recognize the
50th anniversary of the National Retail
Credit Association. Mrs. Bod is co-chairman
of the health professions group sessions.
Mrs. Doris Wilson, Stenographic Pool,
has resigned from the pool effective June
15 as she is going to Phoenix, Arizona, be
cause of her husband’s ill health.
Miss Sally Mount, Medical Records
Librarian, resigned as of June 9 after four
years in that department. Miss Mount will
be joining the staff at the University of
Texas Medical Center, at Galveston, Texas,
in the medical records department. Cur
rently she was holding the position of
President of the Washington State Medical
Records Librarian Association.
Mr. Russell Hill, Physical Therapist at
the hospital, for many years, has resigned
effective June 7 to go into the ranching
business. He will live on his ranch which
is located near Ellensburg, Washington.
The capping exercises were held on
June 10 at the First Methodist Church at
which occasion thirty-two freshmen were
capped.
The Admissions Committee is busy these
days, at the School of Nursing, reviewing
the applications for admission to the school
next fall.
Five students in our School of Medical
Technology received their degrees from the
University of Puget Sound on June. Anne
Keith and Jackie Cook will work in Seattle,
Linda Moore is going to Alaska, Glenda
Gee to Skagit Valley. Judith Johnson is
staying in Tacoma. For a farewell dinner
the students chose PULAO. This is a dish
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Pigilam, our student from India, was happy
with the choice. All sorts of exotic cooking
in the Faculty House kitchen these days.
New faces: Linda Pittman from Vancou
ver, Washington and Pat Thornton from
Tacoma are just beginning their year with
us.
Margaret Rivard is on vacation in Cali
fornia and Texas, covering a lot of territory!
Lucille Larson will attend the annual
meeting of the American Society of Medical
Technologists June 16 through 22 in Wash
ington, D. C.
New equipment in the laboratory: A
Coulter Counter has been purchased. This
instrumentation provides 350% increase in
accuracy with the use of about one-third
technician time and agrees with the reports
of others that the accuracy of red cell
counts agree within plus or minus one per
cent and white counts within plus or minus
three per cent. This type of work is rou
tine on every patient admitted to the hos
pital. This equipment is also programmed
for performing counts on bacteria and
other biological cells, and we are working
on and anticipating its use in evaluation of
tissue culture cells, platelets and possibly
other material. The instrument not only
counts the cells but evaluates the size and
variability in size of these cells.
Saint Joseph's
Last week Sister Antonia received word
from the Joint Commission on Hospital
Accreditation that the hospital was fully
approved for three years, or until the next
survey by the Commission.
The hospital and doctors were com
mended for their untiring efforts in main
taining the best quality of patient care in
the hospital.
Minor recommendations, all pertaining to
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medical records were received. Some of
these were:
1. That all medical records be com
pleted within 10 to 15 days following
discharge.
2. All telephone orders for treatment
and medication should be signed by the
physician on his next visit to the hospital.
3. Operative reports should be dictated
widiin 24 hours following surgery. Histories
should be more complete, including family
and past history.
4. The use of the words “normal” and
“negative” should be kept at a minimum on
the physical examination.
5. The anesthesiologist should do a fol
low-up on all of his cases and record a pro
gress note on the anesthesia record.
Sister Antonia also received notification
from the State Health Department that the
hospital is now licensed following their
inspection in April.
We are happy to hear that Dr. Hinrichs
is taking up practice in Tacoma. We wish
him well.
The medical students from the Univer
sity of Mississippi will be here July 1. We
welcome back Douglas Cain and James
Day. Newcomers are James Clegg and S. R.
Evans. Also coming to join our House Staff
are Drs. Jose and Americo Valdes. Three
of the other interns, Drs. Kanda Greissinger and Santos will be with us for a
while longer.
Two of the Maryknoll seminarians who
were with us last summer are assigned to
the missions. Their medical knowledge
gleaned here will be invaluable in their
work. Father Fred Zierten, from Billings,
Montana is assigned to Bolivia. Father John
Hudert, from Vancouver, Washington is
going to Tanganyika, East Africa. The third
member of the group, Fatiier Don Doherty,
is assigned to work on the home front at
Cleveland, Ohio.
The annual hospital picnic will be held,
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July 11, 1962 at Lake Geneva from noon
until evening. We are looking forward to a
good time with lots to eat and wonderful
weather.
Almost all of the Sisters have made their
annual retreat and are now looking forward
to vacation.
The maintenance department continues
to make improvements throughout the
building. At present they are working on
the Chapel. A new terrazzo floor, new side
altars, and a baldachin has been erected
over the main altar. A complete repainting
will finish the remodeling. The conference
room adjoining the cafeteria is almost com
plete. Sliding doors to separate it from the
cafeteria are still missing. This room plus
the cafeteria make a large auditorium suit
able for our staff meetings and other hos
pital activities.
The School of Nursing was host to Ta
coma General faculty and students on June
20 at a lawn party on the hospital grounds.
The weather was perfect and everyone
enjoyed herself. We are looking forward to
the picnic on Wednesday, July 11, 1962.
Happy vacation to all.
Junior News . . .
Here it is the end of the quarter and new
fields lie ahead. The group at American
Lake is really enjoying the swimming, boat
ing, and sun bathing. Part of the Juniors
are looking forward to Firlands. Soon there
will only be five Juniors left in the school.
They will find surgery loads of fun.
The class is anticipating the coming sum
mer months and all the activities. The
School Picnic, the exchange dinner with
Tacoma General Hospital School of Nurs
ing, which was on June 20. Starting soon
there will be a sale on school sweater-shirts,
which are navy blue with the school motto
in white lettering on front. These are avail
able at a reasonable price. Please contact
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Friday, July 13, 1962
Miss Stephens in the school residence for
further information.
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.—Registration, Winthrop Hotel Lobby
Freshmen . . .
In hopeful expectation of the day when 6:30 p.m.—Registration, Doric Motel
they will be graduating, the Freshmen Recreation Activities on Friday:
formed part of the honor guard for the Golf at Tacoma Country and Golf Club
graduating Seniors on Sunday, June 3, both
and fishing on Puget Sound.
at Mass in the Bellarmine Chapel and at St.
Leo’s for the awarding of diplomas. The 7:00 p.m.—Social hour, Doric Motel
Freshman Class extends its most sincere 8:00 p.m.—Dinner, Doric Motel
congratulations to the Class of ’62. We wish “To Alaska by Canoe,” Alfred L. Schultz,
you continued success and happiness.
Tacoma
We are happy to announce that the Ki- 8:00 a.m.—Breakfast, Bayview Room, Winwanis Club of Bremerton renewed the throp Hotel
“Kiwanis-Bennett Memorial Scholarship”
for Miss Shirley Bruns. The scholarship was 8:30 a.m.—Panel Discussion: The Treat
awarded to Miss Bruns at the time of her ment of Varicose Veins.
entrance into St. Joseph.
Panel: Dean K. Crystal, Seattle
Robert F. Welty, Spokane
We congratulate Miss Donna Dugger
S. F. Herrmann, Tacoma
who has so successfully maintained the
highest grade point average of the gradu Moderator: Edmund A. Kanar, Tacoma
ating class all through her three years.
10:00 a.m.— CLINICAL SESSION
• Carcinoid Tumor of the Small Bowel.
J. B. Gustafson, Yakima
Tacoma Host To
Intestinal Obstruction after Gastric Sur
gery Simulating Stomal Obstructions.
State Surgery Meeting
David Metheny, Seattle
Tacoma will be the site this year for die Surgical Correction of Imperforate Anus
annual meeting of the Washington State
in a 20-year-old Male.
Chapter of the American College of Sur
Gordon H. Congdon, Wenatchee
geons. The meeting is open to all physicians A Review of Surgery of the Thyroid.
and will be held on July 13 and 14, Friday
Warfield M. Firor, Baltimore
and Saturday. Friday will be reserved for
11:30
a.m.—Business meeting. Election of
recreation and an evening session at the
Doric Motel and the main clinical sessions Officers
will be on Saturday. Dr. James Vadheim 12:15 p.m.—Luncheon
is President of the group this year and
Robert Osborne is Secretary-Treasurer. 2:00 p.m .— CLINICAL SESSION
Warfield M. Firor, of Baltimore, will be Present Day Concepts in the Manage
ment of Intracranial Aneurysms.
the guest speaker and will give papers on
John S. Tytus and Hale Haven, Seattle
surgery of the thyroid and on problems
in common duct surgery.
Revascularization of the Liver, Utilizing
the Splenic Artery.
Members of A.A.G.P. will receive 6 hours
G. Douglas Romney, Yakima
credit for attending. The program is as
follows;
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The Care of The Diabetic Foot.
Clinton A. Piper and Thomas O.
Murphy, Tacoma
Problems of Common Duct Surgery.
Warfield M. Firor, Baltimore.
3:30 p.m.—Intermission
3:45 p.m.—Selection of Patients for Intern
al Carotid Artery Endarterectomy.
Sherman W. Day and Arthur Biddle
(by invitation)
The Case of the Missing Fecalith.
Thomas E. Monfore, (Capt., USA),
Madigan Hospital
Selective Gastric Vagotomy.
Charles A. Griffith, Bellevue
Award-Winning Resident’s Paper:
Treatment of the Dumping Syndrome
with Serotonin Antagonists. Lloyd P.
Johnson, Ass’t Resident in Surgery,
Veterans Administration Hospital,
Seattle.
Discussion of afternoon papers by
Dr. Firor
7:00 p.m.—Social Hour, Bayview Room,
Winthrop Hotel
8:00 p.m.—Banquet. “Music and Medicine”,
LeRoy Ostransky, Ph.D.
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of the
County Societies . . .
IN THE NEWS
Edited by The Medical Society
Magazine Group, Phoenix, Arizona
San Diego County, California is starting
a contest for their doctors in the hopes
that it will stimulate contributions to their
bulletin. Doctors are to contribute their
suggestions on the efficient managing of
their offices, hiring of employees, doctorpatient relationships and other problems.
A “Suggestion of the Month” will be chosen
by the editors and printed in the bulletin.
The author of the best one at the end of
a year will receive a suitably engraved
desk set.
Napa County, California will have a First
Aid course for the first time via television.
Doctors may gain or renew their certificates
by (a ) viewing and practicing in their
homes witii the television instruction, (b )
by purchasing from the Red Cross office
the new First Aid text and a Workbook for
$1.00, and (c) by attending one session at
the end of the television series for the pur
pose of teaching and checking life saving
skills. The series, sponsored by the local
Red Cross will run weekly for 12 consecu
tive weeks.
Green County, Ohio is sponsoring a new
club, organized at a local high school since
the first of the year. The group, named
“Caduceus” was established for high school
members who are interested in a career of
medicine or its allied branches. Sponsored
by the Medical Society Auxiliary, the group
has 45 members at present and meets one
evening each month.
Cleveland Academy of M edicine, Ohio
will undertake a series of lectures for its
members on the treatment of casualties.
Arranged by the Disaster Comimttee these
six lectures are planned to provide the
physician with the practical knowledge
needed to care for the Disaster patient.
Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma physi
cians recently awarded cash prizes for the
three best essays concerning “the disad
vantages of Socialized Medicine.” The
teacher sponsoring the first place student
was also awarded an equal cash award.
The society also, as an annual project in
support of the County Livestock Show,
buys prize animals raised by county boys
and girls. This has resulted in excellent
public relations for the society.
Montgomery County, Maryland now has
operational a program for in-hospital train
ing of ambulance and rescue workers. Each
man must complete 50 hours of in-hospital
training for the basic course and 70 hours
for the advanced course. The graduate has
a status comparable with the service corpsman. The course includes lectures by doc
tors, actual in-hospital training in the emer
gency room where lectures on fractures,
heart cases and child birth are coupled with
actual cases. The rescue worker is also
taken into the operating room, learns how
to give certain shots, and the use of the
stethoscope. The Society feels that this
program not only helps the men under
stand proper procedures but also helps the
doctor by giving him competent aid at the
scene of accidents or disasters.
Maricopa County, Arizona is initiating a
project, to be operated by the Auxiliary,
that will provide meals at home to those
people unable to carry on normal daily
activities. The meals, prepared by a caterer,
will be served twice a day by voluntary
help from the Auxiliary.
Jefferson County, Kentucky has obtain
ed assistance from allied groups for its
Society Study Group. This group, started
in 1961, was assigned to become acquaint
ed with all aspects of the medical care
problem and act as a Speaker’s Bureau in
the community. Since September of 1961
the group has given more than 40 speeches
before various organizations. In 1962 they
invited representatives from other groups
to join them. Representatives from the fields
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of the
of Insurance, Business, Pharmacy, and
Hospital Administration are among those
now assisting in the Speaker’s Bureau. The
subject of their talks is always “The Best
Medical Care for the Aged.”
Travis County, Texas, at the request of
the local television station has started their
second series of “Tell Me, Doctor” medical
information programs. Some of the sub
jects presented concern the common cold,
skin cancer and medical household emer
gencies.
A Quote To Rem em ber
“Doing for people what they can and
ought to do for themselves is a dangerous
experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare
of the workers depends upon their own
initiative. Whatever is done under the guise
of philanthropy or social morality which in
any way lessens initiative is the greatest
crime that can be committed against the
toilers. Let social busybodies and profes
sional ‘public morals experts’ in their fads
reflect upon the perils they rashly invite
under this pretense of social welfare.” —
Samuel Gompers, President 1886-1894;
1896-1924, American Federation of Labor.
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County Physician’s Handicap Table Tennis
Tournament in September, is completely
unpredictable. There have been three tour
naments thus far, and different names have
been carved on the winners’ plaques each
time. At the June 5 session, Orv Harrelson
used his unorthodox grip to defeat Ken
Gross in the final game of the singles com
petition, while George Tanbara and Stan
Tuell had to get by the duo of Harrelson
and John Pelley twice during the tourna
ment in order to claim the doubles cham
pionship.
The meet was again held in Jackson Hall
and play moved along at a rapid pace
with adoption of 11-point games. This sys
tem will probably be continued at the next
tournament so that everyone will have a
chance to play and even those who are
around for the finals will get home at a
reasonable time. Five excellent tables were
in use, most of them loaned by the Metro
politan Park Board. If anyone has a pick-up
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First Tuesday o f each m o n th — 8:3 0 p.m .
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Recent discussions of projected im provem ents in professional
services of the County have m ade several facts evident: 1. em ergency
room coverage is of less than desired quality in most of our hospitals
at present; 2. there is little prospect of obtaining a house staff in any
of the private hospitals; 3. there are m any hospitals used by most
of the physicians in town; 4. to require staff physicians to take a turn
in emergency rooms would be a step tow ard closed staff hospitals.
This would tend to destroy the unity of our professional com m unity
where the relations betw een physicians have been exceptionally
congenial.
It would seem that the best solution to the em ergency room
situation would be the establishm ent of one first-class facility for the
city. This would have the effect of draw ing the entire m edical com
munity together in cooperation and better servie would be offered the
public. M uch time, effort and compromise by some will be necessary
to set up a city-wide em ergency unit or receiving hospital. All hospital
administrators would have to agree and a suitable physical plant
developed.
The M edical Society has not studied or acted on any plan for
city-wide em ergency coverage as yet and the Board of Trustees
stands ready to consider any proposal. I feel the county M edical
Society should spearhead a drive to establish a perm anent first-class
emergency care facility.
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Who destroyed the doctor-image?
Most of today’s doctors chose their profession at a time when the word
“doctor” inspired word associations like—generous, compassionate, skillful, ideals,
sympathetic, sacrifice. Today’s doctor-image has changed. For the headline writers
at least, more appropriate doctor-words are—fees, selfish, golf, Cadillac, strike,
organized.
What caused this change? Why do some doctors cite the changing doctorimage as a reason for their reluctance to see their sons take up medicine? Are
we the innocent victims of a campaign by journalists, union leaders and politi
cians to degrade our profession? Sometimes it seems so. But the doctor-image
has not been destroyed. Medicine is a science. The image has been altered—
perhaps you'd prefer “distorted”—inevitably by the scientific revolution of the
past three decades. The physician of yesteryear was personally in contact with
the patient and family. They saw him, heard him, talked to him, as he tended
to nearly every phase of patient care. They were acutely aware of his personal
devotion and good intention. They loved him.
Today? In general, where the “personal touch” is still in evidence, the
patient still usually has an affectionate or grateful feeling toward his immediate
physician. But, longer life and shorter illnesses notwithstanding, it’s quite natural
that he is less likely to be affectionate toward the physician whom he never
sees, or can't remember seeing—the pathologist, the radiologist, the anesthesiolo
gist. Or the specialist whom he may see only briefly. In many instances, a high
proportion of his medical expense involves statements from these physicians. No
wonder we often hear it expressed, “People love and respect their own doctors,
but dislike doctors and doctor organizations." The one thing that excuses the
patient’s own doctor from the unpopular group classification is that element
of personal contact—personal interest—the personal touch.
By assiduous application of the personal touch, doctors can do much to
thwart those who seem intent on continued distortion of the doctor-image. A
part of the persona] touch is the physician’s willingness to take the time—
admittedly a scarce commodity—to explain to patients the significance of the
roles of other physicians in modern -diagnostic and therapeutic methods. The
personal touch should be evident in the few words of interest and concern
expressed by the radiologist as his heavy glove pokes at a sensitive duodenal
bulb; or the sympathetic attitude of the anesthesiologist as he searches for a better
vein to receive the needle.
Preservation of a cordial doctor-patient relationship is a part of the rationale
of our opposition to government control. But the patient must be so appreciative
of this relationship that he, too, wants to preserve it. He can’t appreciate it if
half of his several doctors lack the personal touch. If the personal interest of his
composite physician is lacking, the patient becomes all the more vulnerable to
the editorials and political statements aimed at destruction of the doctor-image.
Ihe march of science has changed the doctor-image, but if we can shun
the cynic s role and continue to strive for the personal touch, we can retain the
most valuable aspects of the old doctor-image. Patients may even like most of
us, instead of just one of us.
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of the P ib b c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
Guest Editorial
The controversy about medical care for the aged is not over.
President Kennedy announced that it will be resumed in November.
He stated on July 17, “I hope that we will return in November a
Congress that will support a program like medical care for the aged.”
This means that we must continue to educate the public and present
the true facts to all. It means continued expansion in political
knowledge and strategy. It also means that we must support and
endorse candidates with ideals and convictions best calculated to
solve this problem on a voluntary basis.
Two recent items should be a help to us in formulating our
fact that at no time has Mr. Kennedy stated that he would oppose
further extension of the King-Anderson Bill should it ever pass. We
know as a fact that Mr. Forand, Mr. Reuther and others close to
administration have stated that the King-Anderson Bill is only the
beginning. The ultimate goal and intent remains the same—namely,
complete compulsory federally controlled medical and hospital care
for all. It should be recalled that Mr. Douglas, in 1959, promised the
physicians of Saskatchewan that no plan would regulate doctors’ fees
and practices unless they approved such a plan—and then he did
just the opposite.
The second item of value to us is that the King-Anderson Bill
was defeated by both Democrats and Republicans—a total of 52
Senators. This again helps to prove our contention that this Bill is not
a matter of straight party politics, but, rather, a matter of philosophy
as to how far and how much the federal government should regulate
and control the private affairs of her citizens.
Both Senator Jackson and Senator Magnuson voted to support
Mr. Kennedy. Senator Magnuson is up for re-election this fall. Two
men have announced their intentions to oppose him as candidates.
Both of these men, Mr. Richard Christiansen and Mr. Benjamin Larson,
have flatly stated that they are opposed to the King-Anderson Bill and
its variations. I am personally familiar with Mr. Christiansen and his
ideas and ideals. He is a young man who voluntarily and without back
ing gave up the noblest of professions to enter this, his first political
contest. His motive in doing this stems from a deep concern over the
moral and social decay that is slowly settling over the United States.
He personally believes that he can be more effective in this as a United
States Senator than as a minister.
You, as citizens, have the privilege of supporting candidates of
your choice. You, as educated and conscientious individuals, also have
the additional duty to investigate all candidates before making this
choice. After you have done this . . . A C T !
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J. R , M.D.
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BULLETIN of the
Convention Notes . . .
This article is to keep members abreast
of plans for the 1962 Annual W.S.M.A.
Meeting, September 16-19 at the Daven
port Hotel, Spokane.
The scientific program and scientific ex
hibit committees have met to undertake
the difficult task of selecting papers and
exhibits for this year’s meeting. Because of
time and space limitations it is not possible
that all of the almost 100 scientific abstracts
or 25 exhibit applications be accepted.
The “Medicine and Century 21” theme
of this year’s meeting has caught the inter
est of physicians, country-wide, who would
like to combine a trip to the World’s Fair
with a medical meeting in Washington
State. After a recent article in the A.M.A.
News, over 150 inquiries were made to the
Central Office by out-of-state doctors wish
ing information on medical meetings dur
ing the Fair.
One of the featured guest scientific
speakers at this year’s meeting will be Dr.
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Louis J. Girard, Professor and Head, Divi
sion of Ophthalmology, College of Medi
cine, Houston. Dr. Girard, widely known
for his clinical research in retina detach
ment and contact lenses, will appear before
the Eye scientific sessions.
Dr. Robert A. Aldrich, Professor and
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Uni
versity of Washington School of Medicine
will join Dr. Sidney Farber, Boston, fea
tured guest scientific speaker in the Pedi
atric scientific sessions.
The Washington State Chapter, American
College of Surgeons will sponsor Dr. Ed
ward S. Judd, Surgical Section, Mayo Clinic
on the Surgery scientific sessions. Dr. Judd
will join Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, Professor
of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medi
cal School and Dr. John S. Najarian, Scripps
Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla,
California, as a guest scientific speaker.
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BULLETIN of the
P ie h c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c i e t y
State Surgeons M eet
in Tacom a
Tacoma was host for the annual meeting
of the Washington State Chapter of the
American College of Surgeons July 14 and
15. Dr. Warfield M. Firor, Associate Profes
sor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University,
was guest speaker. The clinical sessions
were highlighted by his remarks on prob
lems of common duct surgery and surgery
of the thyroid.
Dr. Firor startled the gathered “Fellows”
by stating that he routinely closes the com
mon duct tight using silk and no T-tube
after exploring it—and he has never had a
complication from it. He is amazed that
almost 100 per cent of the examinees for
the American Board of Surgery insist that
the common duct must never closed with
out T-tube drainage. But no good reason
seems to exist for doing so. It is simply
tradition accepted without question, accord
ing to Dr. Firor. He feels that the best sur
geons keep asking themselves, “Why should
I do it this way? Why wouldn’t another way
be better?” Surgeons should keep their in
terest in medicine broad and not narrow
their thinking completely to their own
specialty'. Surgery of the thyroid was made
safe when uracil compounds were tried on
humans after a young surgeon came across
reports of their effect on animals.
Of the many excellent papers given, Ta
coma was well-represented by Ed Kanar’s
able moderating and Sig Herrmann’s
learned participation on the panel on vari
cose veins; also by Pete Piper who pre
sented his paper with Tom Murphy on care
of the diabetic foot. Three cases of carcin
oid tumor of the small bowel were pre
sented from a Yakima surgeon’s practice in
a paper of exceptional interest—especially
when one case in a lifetime is unusual. Se
lective gastric vagotomy was plugged by
the originator of the operator, Charles Grif
fith from Bellevue. He says that we will
be seeing gall bladder disease secondary
to stasis which he believes we are produc
ing by total vagotomy.
Revascularization of the liver was pre
sented when a Yakima surgeon swung the
splenic artery over and hooked it up with
the distal end of an inadvertently severed
common hepatic artery.
The case of a 20-year-old male who had
a colostomy for imperforate anus at birth
was presented by a Wenatchee surgeon.
The corrective surgery was a success be
cause the recto-sigmoid segment had be
come a blind loop and markedly dilated.
Both evenings the surgeons were joined
by their ladies at banquets to see A1
Schultz’s beautifully illustrated “To Alaska
by Canoe” and to be royally entertained by
Leroy Ostransky’s witty satire on the in
consistencies in musical terminology in par
ticular and the English language in general.
The meetings were masterfully presided
over by this year’s president, Jim Vadheim,
and program chairman, Stan Tuell. The
undertaking met with financial success due
to the hard-working and long-suffering
secretary-treasurer, Bob Osborne.
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BULLETIN
o f the
Constitution and By-Laws
Proposed revisions of the Constitution
and By-Laws of the Pierce County Medical
Society.
To be voted upon at the regular meeting
October 9, 1962.
The committee appointed to study the
changes in the Constitution and By-Laws
submits the following amendments to the
Constitution and By-Laws.
1. Page 3, Article III (MEMBERSHIP),
Section 2 (a ) (General Qualifications )
It is recommended that paragraph 1 be
amended to read: “Be a citizen of the
United States. Provisional membership
may be granted to a physician who is
not a citizen of the United States of
America and shall be subject to revoca
tion if that physician does not become a
citizen of the United States of America
within the minimum time prescribed
therefor under the laws of the United
States of America relating thereto. Such
membership does not entitle the mem
ber to vote or hold office but does re
quire the payments of dues and assess
ments as presribed for active members.”
2. Page 6, Article V, Section 1 (regarding
Selection, Terms and Powers of Dele
gates and Alternates to the Washington
State Medical Association). It is recom
mended that the 1st sentence of para
graph 1 be changed to: “Annually this
Society shall elect from die active and
honorary members for two year terms
. . .” (instead of one year terms as in
present Constitution).
Add the following sentence to end of
Section 1 to read: “The President-Elect
shall automatically become a delegate.”
Add the following paragraph to Section
1 to read: “In electing delegates and
alternate delegates, the tellers shall
count, tally and tabulate the votes.
Those candidates with the highest num
ber of votes, up to the number of posi
tions to be filled, shall serve as dele
gates for a two year term. An equal
number of those with the next highest
number of votes shall serve as alternates
also for a two year term.
“Two of the delegates and half of the
alternates elected in 1962, in each case
those w ith the highest number of votes
in their respective categories, shall be
deem ed to have been elected for two
year terms. The remainder in each case
shall be deem ed to have been elected
for one year terms.”
Frederick J. Schwind, M.D.,
Chairman
George S. Kittredge, M.D.
Wayne W. Zimmerman, M.D.
The Special Child in
Century 21
The second National Northwest Summer
Conference, “The Special Child in Century
21”, will be held in Seattle August 26
tlirough September 1. The meeting will pre
sent the most important developments in
the field of the special child as well as what
outstanding authorities see as the blue print
for the future—Century 21.
Registration and opening of the confer
ence will be held at the World’s Fair Play
house ( Mercer Street entrance—no admis
sion required). Keynote speaker will be
Robert E. Cooke, M.D., Professor of Pedi- a tries, Johns Hopkins University. Other
meetings during the week will be held in
the Health Science auditorium, University
of Washington.
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including, in some instances, other topical
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BULLETIN
of the
Activities of The House
of Delegates
of the
A M E R IC A N M E D IC A L A S S O C IA T IO N
at
C hicago - June, 1962
Prior to the first session of the House of
Delegates, several members of the Wash
ington State liaison committee with Osteo
paths appeared before the Council of
Medical Education and Hospitals in regard
to our proposal that the new California
Medical College award M.D. degrees to
qualified Washington Osteopaths. Several
alternatives were discussed, but no plan
approved.
Campaigning was brisk for the candidacy
of Ray McKeown for President-Elect of the
A.M.A. A ground-swell developed about
ten days prior to the meeting to draft Dr.
Edward Annis for this post. It became ap
parent by the time of voting on Thursday
that Dr. Annis’ ability to act as spokesman
for the A.M.A. was overwhelmingly appeal
ing to the Delegates and the vote was
McKeown 65 and Annis 142.
The A.M.A. Judicial Council was em
powered to censure, suspend, or expel
A.M.A. members under certain conditions.
This action implemented recommendations
made at the 1961 meeting and was ap
proved without controversy.
The House approved enlargement of the
Board of Trustees from eleven to fifteen
over moderate objections from the Board
of Trustees and past officers.
The controversy with the American Col
lege of Surgeons which had boiled over at
the Denver meeting was now seriously and
thoughtfully considered. The A.M.A. policy
on fee splitting was restated and clarified.
An attitude was expressed by various fac
tions, essentially in agreement, that A.M.A.
policy should be made more restrictive.
This will probably develop at the next
meeting of the House.
A study report recommending that recog
nition should not be granted to the Ameri
can Board of Abdominal Surgery as a
specialty board was enthusiastically ap
proved by the House. This in spite of a
packed meeting of the Section on General
Surgery electing a slate of officers from the
Abdominal Surgeon’s group. The House ap
proved review of the administrative ma
chinery of scientific sections showing a
trend for scientific sections to remain purely
scientific.
Numerous other matters came to the at
tention of the House, but those mentioned
above came to this Delegate’s personal at
tention. As usual, the State Association
staff and Washington State physicians at
tending the meeting were of immense as
sistance to the Washington Delegation. It
seemed that those physicians attending the
meeting were rewarded by a clearer under
standing of how A.M.A. policies are formu
lated and found attendance a worthwhile
expenditure of their time.
— J e s s W. R e a d , M.D.
The Threat to Drugs for
Uncom m on Conditions
It is now so costly to put a drug through
toxicity tests alone that the pharmaceutical
company must demand that the field of
potential usefulness of the drug—if it does
prove to be effective—be very real and
broad in order to justify even commencing
the studies. Nevertheless, practically every
well known ethical pharmaceutical house
has introduced drugs which are not profit
able and which have a very limited field
but are the only useful products for an
uncommon condition or are life savers. I
certainly hope that hastily and ill-conceived
laws will not erect such terrific roadblocks
that these products, doomed to economic
failure because of their limited use, cannot
be produced by pharmaceutical laboratories
in the future. — Clinical Research in the
Pharmaceutical Industry. Robert K. Cutter,
M.D., J. Indiana State Medical Association,
Dec., 1961.
BULLETIN of the
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B U L L E T IN
o f the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e t y
C EM ET E R Y
C H A PE L
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AUXILIARY O F F IC E R S — 1962-1963
_M rs. H erm an S. Ju d d
President ....... —
..M rs. P h ilip G renley
P resid en t-E lect1st V ice-P resident ..............................M rs. R o b ert W . O sb o m c
2nd V ice-P resid en t
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M rs. D udley W . H outz
3rd V ice-P resid en t
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M rs. Leo F . Sulkosky
4th V ice-P resid en t
____ ____________ M rs. M . J. W icks
Recording Secretary
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M rs. R obert P. CrabiU
Corresponding Secretary............................. M rs. Jack M andeville
T re a su re r
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M rs. H askel L. M aier
Assistant T reasu rer
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M rs. G lenn H . Brokaw
American M edical E d u cation
*.............M rs. G alen H . H oover
Foundation _......
National B u lle tin
...........................M rs. R o b ert A. K allsen
Civil D efense and S afety
M rs. T hom as H . S krinar
H istorian_______________
M rs. H e rb e rt C . K ennedy
Legislative ............................ M rs. G eorge C . GiJm an an d
M rs. Sam uel E . A dam s
M em bership_______________M rs. R o b ert C. Johnson and
M rs. M yron A. Bass
Param edical
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„M rs. L eo n ard M orley
Program ............
M rs. Joseph B. H arris
Publicity
.................................... ............... M rs. G o\Tior Teats
Bulletin ___
M rs. G eorge A. R ace
Revisions ------------------M rs. K enneth E . Gross
Social _ -----------M rs. Jam es L. V adheim
M rs. John J. B onica
Speakers B u re a u ..................
Telephone _
M rs. S tanley W . Tuell
M inute W om en..
-M rs. F ran k J. Rigos an d
M rs. W ayn e W . Z im m erm an
Comm unity Service and
Council______________
M rs. E lm er W . W ahlberg
H e a r t________ __________
..M rs. H . A. A nderson
C an cer__________________--------------------M rs. J. R obert B rooke
Finance___________
--------------M rs. K enneth E . Gross
Dance _ .....................
—M rs. A rnold J. H errm an n and
M rs. W illiam R adem aker
Fashion Show__
..M rs. T hom as O. M urphy and
M rs. W illiam W . M attson, Jr.
M ental H ealth
..M rs. Jo h n M. H av iina
Today’s H e a lth --------------M rs. B ern ard A. Row en
Cook Book_____
M rs. T hom as B. M urphy and
M rs. R obert A. O ’Connell
Jeanne’s first board meeting was a huge
success. Nearly thirty women gathered
around the pool to mix pleasure with busi
ness. At the last minute, the weather
cleared and it was sunny and warm. After
a swim and a delicious lunch, it was busi
ness and a sense of accomplishment as
many points of the year’s work were
discussed.
The Auxiliary cook books have gone to
the printer and are sure to be ready for the
State Medical Convention in Spokane in
September. This is a long-range project for
the Auxiliary and it is expected that every
member be responsible for the purchase or
sale of ten books. They will make fine gifts,
so check your lists for Christmas, birthdays,
weddings. It is important that we have the
full cooperation of all our members.
Elvina Brokaw will gladly accept your
payment of dues at any time—$10 which
includes the hostess fee. Why not pay
them now and save Elvina the time and
trouble of reminding you?
A big “THANK,YOU” to these emergency
Minute Women who called the entire mem
bership recently:
Florence Rigos
Lorraine Adams
Lorna Burt
Anne Fairbourn
Margaret Harris
Hilda Lantiere
Kathleen Skrinar
Peggy Race
Keaty Gross
Margery Nace
Ruth Sames
Kay Willard
Betty Maddison
Becky Banfield
Jeanne Judd
Also, Ruth Zimmerman who organized the
calling in the Gig Harbor area and Lor
raine Sulkosky who arranged the lists in
the Valley area.
Remember the questionnaire you re
ceived from "Mrs. Judd in early May? Two
hundred and fifty were mailed out, but only
60 have been turned to her. The opinions
of 60—just about one-quarter of the mem
bership—will hold. They prefer luncheons
to mid-moming meetings; they feel a need
for an opportunity to become better ac
quainted with one another and asked for
two social meetings without a formal pro(Continued on Page 21)
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gram. Most frequent reply under “sugges
tions” was the comment of the need for
personal contact to bring members to
meetings—those members who do not wish
to come alone.
Dorothy and Phil Grenley and their chil
dren thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Harri
son Hot Springs. Everyone participated in
tennis, golf and swimming.
The Judd’s, “because we love to fish”,
left their lovely blue pool and went camp
ing. After a time in the Olympic parks,
they went east of the mountains where the
weather was grand and they did catch
some fish.
The sailing enthusiasts, Ruth and Dudley
Houtz, Billie and Tom Murphy, are having
a wonderful summer. Ruth and Billie went
along as cooks on the Swift Sure Race, a
run from Victoria, B.C. to the Swift Sure
Buoy and back. The Murphy’s “Sundance”
made the much longer race from Neah Bay
to the Columbia light ship and return to
Port Angeles. The gals saw them -off, then
camped with the children at Kalaloch until
their return. Dud Houtz was part of the
“Sundance” crew. Because they ran into a
bad storm on the Pacific, only five of the
ten starting boats were able to finish.
Ruth and Dud have rented the Kallsen’s
beach house while Mavis is in town. We
are all happy to hear that Bob Kallsen is on
his way to recovery.
Mark your calendar now—Thursday, Oc
tober 25 is the date for our fashion show;
Top of The Ocean, top deck.
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H O S P IT A L S
Tacoma General
Dr. Hanif Anwar came to the Anesthesia
Department of Tacoma General Hospital
July 1, 1962, to start his residency in anes
thesia. Dr. Anwar interned at Deaconess
Hospital, Buffalo, New York and did his
residency at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cam
bridge, Mass. He is here on a teaching fel
lowship for one year, after which he will
return to his native Pakistan.
Dr. Ronald Cudek began his first year
residency in anesthesia July 1, 1962, at the
Department of Anesthesia of Tacoma Gen
eral Hospital. His undergraduate work was
done in Indiana and he interned at Moun
tain View Hospital, Tacoma. He is a mem
ber of the A.O.A. Dr. Cudek and his wife,
Phyllis, reside in Lakewood.
Dr. Toshio Akamatsu is with the Anes
thesia Department of Tacoma General
Hospital to study regional anesthesia. He is
on a second year residency rotation pro
gram from the University of Washington.
His undergraduate work was done at the
University of Minnesota and internship at
Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio.
Dr. Izso Grunwald came to the Depart
ment of Anesthesia at Tacoma General Hos
pital from Montevideo, Uruguay. He is
here studying regional block anesthesia and
plans to remain one year. Dr. Grunwald and
his wife, Libertad and two daughters reside
in Tacoma.
Dr. John Takamura is at the Department
of Anesthesia of Tacoma General Hospital
for one month being on loan from the Fac
ulty Staff of the University of Washington.
He is currently conducting study on com
parative evaluation or regional versus gen
eral anesthesia, this research fund being a
grant from the U. S. Army. Dr. Takamura
and his wife, Lucy and their two children
reside in Seattle.
New Medical Technology students re
ported by Miss Lucille Larson of the Labor(Continued on Page 23)
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atory Department are Karline Samuelson
from Sedro Woolley who attended Augustana College in Illinois; Linda Vekcih from
Aberdeen who attended Washington State
University; and Sharon Graham from
Woodland who attended Pacific Lutheran
University. Lani Sheriff from Tacoma who
attended Olympic College in Bremerton is
a new Cytotechnology student.
Vacationers from the Laboratory Depart
ment spent their time in our own state.
Charlie Ferguson and family went to Oroville, Washington. Stanley Sams visited his
sister in Elma. Dr. Reberger and family
spent a week on the Olympic Peninsula
“away from the telephone.”
The Diabetic school conducted by Mrs.
Aline Hatton will be closed from August 6
through September 3, 1962.
Mr. Smaalders, Executive Housekeeper
returned from a six weeks visit to Europe.
He and his wife visited friends and rela
tives in Holland.
Mrs. Diane Wedell of the Stenographic
Pool will be leaving at the end of July. She
and her husband will be returning to Wis
consin along with the rest of the 32nd
National Guard Division.
Miss Harriett Johnson is the new credit
clerk in the business office.
On July 12 the hospital employee’s picnic
was held at Owen’s Beach. Serving times
were at 11:30 a.m., 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.
About 500 attended the event which
brought many families to gether to enjoy
the yearly outing.
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In the survey report, Dr. Weir com
mented: “The medical staff, governing
board, administrator and auxiliary services
are commended for the evidence found by
the field representative of the Joint Com
mission on Accerditation of Hospitals of
the good quality of patient care being pro
vided in this hospital.”
New Mothers R eceive Com plim entary
Form ula Packs
The Hi Ho Shopping Center of Puyallup
has introduced a new service which is
proving to be highly popular with maternity
patients at Good Samaritan. As each
mothers leaves the hospital with her new
born baby, she receives a handy six-pack of
8-ounce nursing bottles filled with the
baby’s own special formula. This enables
the mother to become adjusted to her first
day at home without the task of making
formula.
Puyallup Active Club Donates
Pediatric Equipm ent
A complete set of child traction and a
cool steam vaporizor were donated re
cently by the Active Club.
The Active Club has on several previous
occasions provided the hospital widi equip
ment and each Christmas donates Christ
mas trees for decorating the hospital.
Cru ise For Hospital Personnel
Over 80 hospital personnel, including
husbands, wives or guests enjoyed a cruise
through the Narrows aboard the Harbor
Queen, July 18. For the past two years, the
summer outing for personnel was a picnic
at Lutherland on Lake Killarney. This sum
mer, more interest was expressed in a cruise
and those who went enjoyed a beautiful
evening out on the water and also an excel
Good Samaritan
Good Samaritan Hospital has again been lent roast chicken box lunch.
granted full accreditation by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals
for a three year period. This is the result
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P r i n t i n g Co.
pital last May 29, by Earl F. Weir, M.D.,
Field Representative of the Commission.
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July, 1959, when a certificate was first
811 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma
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P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c ie t y
N e w Booklet O ffe re d by
Heart A ssociation
Guidelines for establishing and improving
cardiovascular clinics are provided in a
newly revised booklet, “Recommended
Standards for Cardiovascular Clinics A
Guide for Clinic Committees,” just issued
by the American Heart Association. Affili
ation of and assistance in the development
of cardiovascular clinics are an important
Heart Association activity in many areas.
The 24-page booklet, issued in 1949 and
first revised in 1955, defines the functions
of a cardiovascular clinic in terms of (1)
service to the patients, (2) education not
only of professional staff but of patients and
their families, and (3) research. It sets forth
recommended standards for clinic person
nel, facilities and equipment, and clinic
management.
A new section of the booklet deals with
prevention of radiation hazards, giving rules
for proper maintenance and use of fluoros
copy units.
The booklet also defines membership,
functions and operation of the Heart Asso
ciation Committees on Clinics, detailing
the procedures for clinic affiliation. According to the Heart Association, the process
of gaining affiliation is designed to help the
staff of a clinic evaluate its own perform
ance, to disclose deficiencies and suggest
means for their correction, and to guide the
clinic in promoting or expanding its
program.
Copies of “Recommended Standards for
Cardiovascular Clinics” are available to
members of health departments, clinic
staffs, hospital trustees and other profes
sional personnel concerned with community
health problems. Requests should be ad
dressed to local Heart Associations or the
American Heart Association, 44 East 23rd
Street, New York 10, N.Y.
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The Internationa] College of Surgeons
will hold its 1.3th Biennial Congress at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, N.Y.,
September 9-13, 1962. A. Mario Dogliotti,
M.D., Torino, Italy, President of the Col
lege, will preside at the meeting which will
attract 3,500 surgeons from all over the
world.
An outstanding and varied scientific pro
gram has been arranged by Max Simon,
M.D., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who is program
chairman. Included are postgraduate in
structional courses, surgical films, scientific
and commercial exhibits, and over 200 pa
pers and panel discussions presented by
essayists from 27 different countries.
Highlight of the social program will be
the banquet on Wednesday, September 12,
at which Edward R. Annis, M.D., Miami,
Fla., will be the principal speaker.
Registration fee is $10 for members and
$15 for non-members. Interns, residents,
active members of the armed forces, pro
gram speakers, special guests and nurses
will be admitted without the registration
fee.
Further information on the Congress may
be obtained by writing to: 13th Biennial
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BULI.ETIN of the
A Simple, Com m on N am e trademark names. It was found that by
using common names, a saving of less than
During his recent Message on Protect five per cent would have resulted.
ing the Consumer Interest, President Ken
nedy urged that drugs be given a “simple,
common name in order to avoid confusion
and to enable the purchaser to buy the
quality drugs he actually needs at the low
est competitive price.”
From this statement, the consumer might
easily assume two things—that no efforts
are made at present to give drugs simple,
common names in addition to their brand
names and that, if this were done, drug
prices would be lower. But both of these
assumptions would be incorrect.
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Government pressure on the medical pro
fession to prescribe medicines under their
common names instead of their brand
names is based on the theory that differ
ent versions of the same drug, produced by
different companies, are of equal quality.
It would be hard to find a more dangerous
fallacy.
This fallacy is based on the theory that
the therapeutic performance of a medicine
can be predicted solely by carrying out the
United States Pharmacopeia assay for de
termining the drug content. But this is not
necessarily so. Almost all pharmaceutical
products contain ingredients other than the
active drug, and the manufacture of these
products involves such steps as mixing,
compressing, coating, heating, filtering. Any
of these operations, if improperly con
trolled, may significantly affect the thera
peutic performance of the medicine with
out the assay showing any deviation of the
drug content from “official standards.”
At present, the common names of drugs
are decided by a well-thought-out system
in which a number of scientific agencies,
both national and international, participate.
(Among these agencies are such authorita
tive bodies as the United States Pharmacopeia-American Medical Association No
menclature Committee, the World Health
Organization, the British Pharmacopoeia
Association and others.) Every effort is
made to find a simple name, but it is abso
lutely essential that the name adhere to
basic principles of scientific nomenclature.
Several studies of the subject have re
If not, the names will be meaningless to the
medical profession and to scientists vealed that two drugs having the same ac
tive ingredients may affect patients in dif
generally.
ferent ways. “Indiscriminate changing of
Usually the common name reflects the brands may actually become a life or death
chemical make-up of the drug; and since matter,” according to Dr. Eino Nelson, of
the chemical name is often long and com the University of California Medical Cen
plicated, the common name may have to ter of San Francisco.
be far from simple. No one has suggested
Simple, “common names”—especially for
a way to avoid this difficulty.
drugs of complicated chemical structure—
Moreover, the use of common names does will be hard to find. Even if this obstacle
not assure that a drug will be cheap. For is overcome, there is little or no reason to
example, the Rhode Island Division of think that the use of common names will
Public Assistance examined 10,000 drug result in lower drug prices. And what is
prescriptions for welfare recipients for the most important, the general use of such
purpose of determining the actual savings names would almost certainly bring about
to the State if the drugs were prescribed a dangerous compromise in the quality of
by their common names instead of their our medicines.
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greatest in the world only because it threw
ofi the hobbles of dictatorial kings and de
There was a time when you went to the veloped free enterprise.
polls to vote for a man whom you thought This spring I wrote to the Honorable
would be an honest leader and have the Warren G. Magnuson to voice my opinion
people’s best interests at heart. However, concerning the King-Anderson Bill and re
since the depression of ’29, a new political ceived a reply containing the following
psychology has developed. This psychology paragraph,
is now well-known that late
first attempts to convince one that he needs in life when“Itour
have the greatest
something and then screams and cries to need for medical people
assistance,
their income
push it through Congress. This psychology is the smallest. Over the past year
the prob
is an attempt to win your favoritism and lem has become a matter of increasing
na
your vote. The true details of the project tional concern, and varying corrective pro
and the social-economic impact it will have posals have been offered.”
on you are misconstrued and confusing—
rarely understood completely by the tax It behooves us all to get out and work
payer.
in an effort to stop this cancer. It also takes
You either pay through the pocket
Great effort is made to mask the fine print MONEY.
book
now
and who will be responsible for the major you think. or the nose later. It is later than
ity of its debt. Some day the working man
is going to discover the true goals our pres Recently, I had the pleasure of listening
ent Socialistic democracy has planned for to a minister who is running for the United
him and how expensive and inferior the States Senate for Washington State. He is
product.
now interested in what he can give you. He
is
in a government by the people
Even Krushchev has discovered that So andinterested
not
a
government
to control the people.
cialism does not work. Unless we soon
wake up we will be a third-rate nation to
Europe and Russia. This nation became the
— W i l l i a m P. H a u s e r , M.D.
Political Cancer
Pierce C ounty M edical Society
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R esum e in Septem ber
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BULLETIN of the
C oun ty Societies . . .
IN THE N E W S
Magazine Group, Phoenix, Arizona
Sonom a County, California voted at
their last Executive Comimttee meeting to
embark on an experimental public service
column in one of their local newspapers,
The Press Democrat. This column will ap
pear once weekly and will alert the general
public to the interests and concerns that
physicians have for community health
problems. The program will be under the
direction of their Public Relations Com
mittee.
Lake County, Indiana is continuing their
highly successful radio program “The Doc
tor Speaks.” Once aweek for fifteen minutes
during the noon hour, some member of the
medical society speaks on a topic of his
choice. It can be economics, bill-paying,
unions, health insurance or a purely medical
subject.
Broome County, New York has had over
300 members of area fire and police depart
ments, ambulance and emergency squads
take advantage of their series of training
session in closed-chest cardiac massage. Six
mass teaching sessions have been conducted
during the past several weeks. The evening
sessions include a film, panel discussion,
question and answer period and actual
teaching of the technique to participants on
mannequins. Because the technique of
closed-chest cardiac massage is still in the
experimental
stages and there are certain
Hillsborough County, Florida physicians
risks
involved,
it was decided not to train
are participating in a group weight control the general public
program particularly designed to meet the Quote of Note at the present time.
needs of teen-age girls. Emphasis will be
placed on the need for change in personal
“It is proper to take alarm at the first
goals and living habits. The doctors will be experiment
upon our liberties. We hold this
called on to discuss the medical aspects prudent jealousy
to be the first duty of citi
of obesity and the need for weight reduc zens. The free men
of America did not
tion. The program, sponsored by the Tampa wait until usurped power
had strengthened
Dietetic Association will be limited to 30 itself by exercise and entangled
the ques
teen-age referred (with written permission tion in precedents. They saw all the
conse
slips) by their physicians.
quences in the principle, and they avoided
the consequences by denying the principle.”
Onondaga County, New York is in the
process of organizing a Syracuse Chapter
—James Madison
of MEDICO. A group of 25-30 Syracuse
physicians met with Dr. Peter Comanduras,
co-founder, with the late Dr. Thomas
Dooley, of Medico, the independent, vol
untary non-sectarian medical service pro
gram for under-developed countries. The
needs of Colombia in particular were dis
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T A C O M A ACAD EM Y OF PSYCHIATRISTS and NEUROLOGISTS
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TA C O M A SURGICAL CLUB
T hird Tuesday o f each months— 6 :3 0 p.m . at Tacoma Club
T A C O M A ACADEM Y OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
Fourth Tuesday o f each m o n th — 6 p.m . at Tacoma C lub
PIERCE COUNTY ACAD EM Y OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Fourth M o n d a y o f each m o n th exce pt June, J u ly and A u g u st—
6 :3 0 p.m . at Honan's
First Thursday o f each m on th exce pt June, J u ly and A ug ust—
6:0 0 p.m .
T hird Friday o f M arch, June, Septem ber, Decem ber— 7:15 a.m.
at N e w Y orke r Cafe
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BULLETIN
TACOMA, W ASH.
S E P T E M B E R - 1962
REGULAR M E E T IN G
SEPTEMBER 11
B U LLETIN of the
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O F F IC E R S
________________________G . M . W h ita c re
__________________ ... S ta n le y W . T u e ll
.......................... F re d e r ic k
J. S c h w in d
__________________A rn o ld J. H e rrm a n n
____________________ .... .... J u d y G o rd o n
TRUSTEES
J o h n F . C o m fo rt
Jo h n S haw
D a le D . D o h e rty
F re d e r ic k J. S c h w in d
R o b e rt M . F e rg u s o n
W a rre n F . S m ith
A rn o ld J. H e r r m a n n
G e o rg e A . T a n b a ra
G e o rg e C . K ittre d g e
S ta n le y W . T u e ll
C h ris C . R e y n o ld s
G . M . W h ita c r e
DELEGATES
D o u g la s B u tto rff
A rn o ld J . H e r r m a n n
G e o rg e S. K ittre d g e
W a y n e W . Z im m e rm a n
ALTERNATE DELEGATES
R ic h a rd F . B a rr o n ia n
R o b e rt W . F lo re n c e
G le n n H . B ro k a w
G le n n G . M c B rid e
F r e d e r ic k J. S c h w in d
C O M M IT T E E S
E th ic s
G le n n G . M c B rid e , C h a ir m a n
F r a n k R . M a d d is o n
W e n d e ll G . P e te rs o n
G rie v a n c e
C h ris C . R e y n o ld s , C h a ir m a n
J. W . B o w e n , J r.
C . B . R itc h ie
P ro g ra m
C h a rle s J. G a lb ra ith , C h a ir m a n
D a le D o h e rty
O rv is A . H a rre ls o n
P u b lic R e la tio n s
K e n n e th E . G ro ss, C h a ir m a n
D a le D o h e rty
A rn o ld J. H e r r m a n n
J o h n R . A lg e r
G e o rg e A . T a n b a r a
A rth u r P . W ic k strc rm
L ib r a r y
T am es M . B la n k e n s h ip , C h a ir m a n
C lin to n A . P ip e r
P u b lic H e a lth
G e o rg e A . T a n b a r a , C h a ir m a n
R o b e rt C . J o h n s o n
C e c il R . F a r g h e r
K e n n e th G ra h a m
H o u s e a n d A t te n d a n c e
G a le n H . H o o v e r, C h a ir m a n
G le n n H . B ro k a w
C iv il D i s a s te r
T . R . H a le y , C h a ir m a n
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L e o F . S u lk o sk y
E . K em p
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H . B ia s
D u d le y W . H o u tz
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E n t e r ta in m e n t
R o b e rt A . O ’C o n n e ll, C h a ir m a n
J o h n R . A lg e r
R o b e rt W . O s b o rn e
G e r ia tr ic s
G le n n H . B ro k a w , C h a ir m a n
J a m e s E . H a z e lrig g
M a rc e l M a ld e n
L e g is la tiv e
W a y n e W . Z im m e rm a n , C h a ir m a n
C h a rle s R . B o g u e
D o u g la s P . B u tto rff
J. H u g h K a lk u s
E d m u n d A . K a n a r, C h a ir m a n
M a x S. T h o m a s
R o d g e r S. D ille
S c h o o ls
D a v id L . S p a r lin g , C h a ir m a n
H a s k e l L . M a ie r
John M . K anda
R . A . N o rto n
M . E . L a w re n c e
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M . R . S tu e n
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R o b e rt M . C h a m b e rs
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C la ris A lliso n
B e rn a rd A . B a d e r
C h a rle s C . R e b e rg e r
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MYRA VOZENILEK
JOHN S. MAY
JAMES P. DUFFY
THOMAS F. HINRICHS
MAX S. THOMAS
CHARLES R. BOGUE
MARION MARTHA LARSEN
GORDON M .PA R R O TT
DANIEL J. THOMAS
LEON B. THOMAS
MYRON A. BASS
ELDON C. BLIZARD
FRANK W. HENNINGS
CYRIL V. LUNDVICK
J. W. BOWEN, JR.
THOMAS H. SKRINAR
W ALTER L. SOBBA
CARL N. EKMAN
ARNOLD W. JOHANSSON
S. S. THORDARSON
. . . Labor Day weekend,
the back-to-school movement and the
“Grand Old Fair” seem to hit us all at once
every fall. In case you haven’t looked at
the calendar lately, they’re here again, and
our cover will remind you the 59th Western
W ashington Fair will open its annual nineday run at Puyallup September 15. Let’s
all go!
John H. H ew itt, Trust O ffic e r o f N ational Bank o f W ashington, leaving the
Probate Court in the C ounty-C ity B uilding , fo llo w in g an estate hearing.
John H. H ew itt, Trust O ffice r of the National Bank o f W ashington, is typical
of the specialists in the Trust Departm ent o f the Bank. He is w e ll inform ed in the
fields of taxation, investments and the adm inistration of estates.
Mr. Hewitt, as a fa m ily man w ith a w ife and four lively boys, is particularly
cognizant o f the d ifficu ltie s w hich can face the modern fa m ily in the event of
death o f the husband. For many years, he has been easing the problem s of bene
ficiaries and fu lfillin g the plans o f decedents by w o rkin g w ith their attorneys and
accountants in guiding estates through the proceedings required by laws and taxes.
Chances are, your attorney or accountant already knows M r. H ew itt. If you
have any questions, w h y not telephone him at the Tacoma M ain O ffice . . .
M Arket 7-2131. He is a man you can trust w ith your trust affairs.
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PIERCE C O U N T Y M E D IC A L SOCIETY M EETIN G
Tuesday, September 11
P R O G R A M - - - 8:15 P.M.
W ILLARD B. REW, M.D.
President, Washington State Medical Association
Discussion by W.S.M.A. Delegates of Problems and Resolutions
to be Considered at the State Meeting.
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A no-host dinner w ill precede the meeting
Honan’s Restaurant — 6:30 p.m.
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P ik h ce C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
September Calendar of M ee tin gs
MONDAY
TUESDAY
3
WEDNESDAY
4
LABOR DAY
10
Staff of Doctors
Hosp.— 7:30 p.m.
Staff of Good
Sam aritan
6:30 p.m.
Staff of N orthern
Pacific— Noon
17
5
Staff of T.G.
6:30 p.m.
Tac. Acad, of Psy.
& Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
Tacom a Ortho.
Soc.— 8:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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C.P.C. of T.G.
8:30 a.m.
Pierce County
M edical Society
8:15 p.m.
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
W .S.M.A. Annual
M eeting Spokane
C.P.C. of M ary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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W .S.M .A. Annual
M eeting Spokane
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General Practice
6:30 p.m.
Tacom a Surgical
Clirb— 6:30 p.m.
Tacom a Acad, of
Internal Med.
6 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
FRIDAY
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Pierce Co. Ped.
Soc.— 6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of T.G.
8:30 a.m.
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6:15 p.m.
W .S.M.A. Annual
M eeting Spokane
THURSDAY
C.P.C. of T.G.
8:30 a.m.
C.P.C. of St.
14
C.P.C. of St.
21
Staff of Med. Arts
Hosp.— 7:15 a.m.
C.P.C. of St.
28
Staff of M. Bridge
12:15 p.m.
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Effective Speaking By
M .D /s Important in
Public Relations
Even though most physicians have had
no specific training in public speaking,
nearly all are called upon at some time or
another to get up and express themselves
before a group of people. Sometimes this
is only a few remarks at a scientific session.
Other times, the physician is asked to make
more formal speeches or addresses before
lay or semi-professional groups. In any
case, the clarity and effectiveness of his
comments reflect both on his individual
status and on the reputation of the medical
profession as a whole. Any speech by any
doctor is actually another facet of our
public relations. Whether it’s good public
relations or bad public relations may de
pend on that physician’s ability to make
a clear presentation of his thought—not,
unfortunately, on his good intentions alone.
Physicians who feel they could stand
some improvement in their ability to speak
before a group—and this probably includes
most of us—should consider membership
in one of our local Toastmaster Clubs.
These clubs are not service clubs, and are
not actually in competition with the serv
ice club membership. Toastmaster Clubs
exist only for the purpose of helping each
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people. They are strictly self-improvement
clubs. They also provide training and ex
perience in parliamentary procedure.
In a typical Toastmaster Club meeting,
the members assemble at mealtime and one
member says grace. Then one member an
nounces the topic for the day, and each
other member must rise, and, without pre
vious preparation, give a IV 2 minute dis
cussion of the topic. This is usually fol
lowed by three or four prepared speeches,
each 5 to 7 minutes in length, given by club
members. Each member has a chance to
give a prepared speech about once a month.
Following the prepared speeches, the other
members evaluate and criticize the speeches
and the speakers in regard to speech organ
ization, effectiveness, enunciation, gram
matical errors, utilization of hand gestures,
and other features that may have added
or distracted from the value of the presen
tation. Each member is provided with an
instruction manual which guides him in
planning a variety of types of speeches.
There are about a half dozen Toastmaster
Clubs in the Tacoma area, with member
ship varying from 15 to 30 members. Abso
lute regularity of attendance is not re
quired. Some clubs have breakfast meet
ings starting at 7 a.m. once a week. Others
meet for 1 hour and 15 minutes at lunch
time, and others meet for the evening meal.
Thus, most physicians could find one meet
ing time that would fit their schedule. Any
one interested in more information on
Toastmaster Clubs, meeting times and
places, should contact the editor of the
Bulletin.
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sum up the rationale for including an anti mycotic in your antibiotic prescription. Par
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highly potent agent which acts in the g.i. tract when given by mouth. Potent, yet virtu
ally nontoxic in the amounts provided by Mysteclin-F.1-2 You can thus avail yourself of
an important safeguard which extends the usefulness of tetracycline: Mysteclin-F
prevents monilial overgrowth while utilizing the full force of tetracycline against
a wide range of pathogens. Once you’ve decided in favor of broad-spectrum therapy,
'h'"for' Mysteclin-F is good practice.
1. Lehan, P. H ., Y ates,
J. L ., B ra sh er, C. A .,
Larsh, H. W , and Furcolow, M. L.: Diseases of
C h e s t 3 2 :5 9 7 , 1 9 5 7 .
2. N ew co m er, V . D .,
Sternberg, T. H., Wright,
E. T., and Reisner, R. M.:
J . C h ro n ic D ise a se s
9:353, 1959.
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Guest Editorial
P R A C T IC A L POLITICS
Should we, as physicians, become involved in politics? This subject has
been discussed pro and con in several recent journals. After sifting and sorting,
it is apparent that we must become politicians. The extent of our participation
and activities naturally will vary, but there are three general fields for endeavor.
The first area is that of the candidate for political office. Only a small
number of physicians can, because of intent and circumstances, qualify as candi
dates. Drs. Herrmann, Humiston, Banfield, and Kalkus are current examples
of this group and they must be encouraged and helped.
The second political area available for physicians and their wives is within
local political parties. Active party participation means, some say, in the party
platform. This is vital since most candidates, when supported by the party
and subsequently elected, do pay some attention to the platform. At the
Pierce County Republican convention this June, approximately 15 physicians
or their wives were delegates with the right to discuss and vote on the party
platform. There are 432 precincts in Pierce County so it is obvious that many
more of us must become active. The following areas urgentiy need your help:
Lakewood, Fircrest, Spanaway, Parkland, South Tacoma and even two areas
in the North End (one in the Stadium district). If you reside in any of these
areas, seriously consider becoming an active member of the Republican Party
and call for advice. It is not too late to become active even for the coming
election.
The third ahd last area is that of a citizen doing his or her bit to make
this a better country by becoming informed about candidates and issues and
supporting those we believe in. If we know the facts we can influence some
of our acquaintances and some of our patients. The last presidential election
was determined by less than 0.5 per cent of the total votes cast. Every single
vote counts, but only at the ballot box.
Most of us did not study medicine to become politicians. However, we
have a choice, like it or not. Either we become political and help determine
the future or let others do it for us. Unfortunately, those most eager to control
and rule are those whose policies and actions are most unacceptable to us.
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Local T V , Press, Radio
A ll in M .D. P u b licity Plan
Again, that particular time of year has
arrived when it is necessary for your Medi
cal Society to call on you as individuals to
assist in its public relations program. Again,
we are asking the whole-hearted participa
tion of every member. We have asked for
and received the full cooperation of all of
the news media—press, radio, TV—and we,
in turn, most assuredly should make full
use of them.
Our public relations program for this
fall will, of course, include the weekly “Ask
Your Doctor” television series. The program
has achieved a high popularity rating and
we hope to maintain it. The same general
format will be followed as before—its pur
pose being to present medical information
of general interest to the viewing public.
This year, programs will be taped at
KTNT’s Tacoma studios which will avoid
the necessity of going to Seattle for taping.
The first two programs will be taped on
September 14— Back to School, chairmanned by Orv Harrelson, and Foot Trouble,
chairmanned by George Gilman.
The second major_ aspect of our public
relations endeavor will be a bi-weekly
newspaper column. These columns on
timely medical subjects which will appear
in the News Tribune under the heading,
“Your Doctor S a y s”, will be prepared by
members of this Medical Society and a
by-line will be given. We hope to start off
with a series of articles by Bob Kallsen,
dictated from his bed at Tacoma General
Hospital, on the merits of certain automo
bile safety measures and first-aid to victims
of all-too-frequent automobile accidents. It
is anticipated that this, written from per
sonal experience, will be a most interesting
series.
The radio stations have again agreed to
carry short spot announcements of current
medical interest. These will be directed pri
marily toward preventive medicine. This
media will be used to great extent in pro
moting any mass immunization programs
which may be undertaken such as the polio
immunization program now being
considered.
Again, we thank all of you who in the
past have given your valuable time and
knowledge to present programs and hope
that you and those who have not yet taken
part will participate during the coming
year.
— P u b l i c R e l a t i o n s C o m m itte e
Kenneth E. Gross, M.D.,
Chairman.
State President
To Speak Here
Meeting time is here again! The first
meeting of the new fiscal year will be on
Tuesday evening, September 11, and a dis
tinguished guest will be present. Current
President of our State Medical Association,
Dr. Willard B. Rew of Yakima, will discuss
important medical issues as part of the pro
gram. Delegates who will represent you at
the State Association meeting in Spokane
in mid-September will also give brief re
ports on the issues to be considered at the
annual meeting. After the three month’s
respite from Medical Society meetings, a
good attendance is expected for this im
portant session. As usual, the meeting will
be preceded by dinner at Honan’s
Restaurant.
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BULLETIN of the
Experience, Stability
Q u alify Hum iston
For State Senator
tion’s Legislative Staff, the Executive Com
mittee, the doctors and the Auxiliary, but
his strong and capable hand at the helm
was equally important and necessary.
Although he will continue to support what
he calls “basically positive public interest
legislation” on medical issues, the broad
scope of his legislative and political experi
ence makes him deserving of the support
of every thoughtful voter, physician or not.
S.W.T.
Enjo ym en t of . . .
“ D elightful Fats"
Hom er Hum iston
Homer Humiston’s current campaign to
represent the 26th District in the Wash
ington State Senate has drawn the active
support of local physicians, including a
“Physicians-for-Humiston Committee,” and
of members of the Pierce County Medical
Society Auxiliary. This support by the medi
cal community has been based on the gen
eral recognition of Homer’s record as a
just and able administrator and perhaps
Tacoma’s most learned student of legisla
tion and government, and not solely on the
basis of friendship toward a highly-respected colleague. The consistency of his
voting record during his seven years on the
Tacoma City Council earned the respect
of the citizens of Tacoma and is an assur
ance that his decisions at the State legisla
tive level will be equally just and predict
able and free of caprice.
Though best known to Tacomans for his
terms as Councilman, Homer is no stranger
to State politics. The doctors of Washing
ton State are well aware that the State
legislative session of 1961 was the most
successful in history for the medical pro
fession, and this was the year that Homer
was President of our State Association.
Homer himself has attributed much of this
success to the cooperation of the Associa
Sufficient progress has been made, to
date, in the understanding of coronary dis
ease’s basic process, atherosclerosis, to
make possible the prediction of tremendous
further strides in the next 10 years. This
will include especially a better under
standing of lipid metabolism, and the ef
fects of dietary saturated and unsaturated
fats on blood clotting, the process that goes
hand in hand with atherosclerosis to pro
duce blockage of vital arteries. I hope that
investigators in pharmaceutical company
laboratories, or elsewhere, will soon de
velop means of converting the abnormal
metabolism into a type which will allow
enjoyment of these delightful fats through
a long life, free of coronary symptoms. I
do not believe I am being overly optimistic
in saying that this great day is not too far
in the future. —Thomas M. Durant, M.D.,
in American Professional Pharmacist, Mar.,
1962.
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sity through the first semester. Mary will
live one month with a Mexican family and
President ___ ___________________ _____ .M rs. H erm an S. Ju d d
P resid en t-E lect________________ ______ — M rs. P hilip G renley study history, culture and government of
1st V ice-President ................................M rs. R obert W . O sborne
2nd V ice-P resid en t _________ :........M rs. D u d ley W . H outz
Mexico during her stay. In the meantime,
3rd V ice-President ____________
M rs. L eo F . Sulkosky
4 th V ice-President .................................... ...
M rs. M . J. she
W icksis taking a course in Spanish!
Recording S ecretary .....................
M rs. R o b ert P. C rabill
Are you going with your husband to the
Corresponding S e c re ta ry ................ M rs. Jack M andeville
Treasurer ________________
M rs.
H askel L. M aier
Assistant T reasu rer .....................
M rs.G lenn H . Brokaw State Medical Convention in Spokane?
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M rs. G alen H . H oover Jeanne Judd and Ruth Murphy wish to find
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M rs. R o b ert A. Kallsen
Civil D efense and S afety .. ... M rs. T hom as H . S krinar some Pierce County Auxiliary members
H isto ria n
................................... - M rs. H e rb e rt C. K ennedy
who could help with the sale of our cook
L egislative____ .___________ M rs. G eorge C. G ilm an and
books. The women’s meetings will be held
M em bership .....................— M rs. R obert C . Johnson and
M rs. M yron A. Bass in the Ridpath Hotel and it is there that
P a ra m e d ic a l
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Program ..............
— .........
_M rs. Joseph B. H arris
they will have a table to display the books.
P u b lic ity ............................................
M rs.G ovnor Teats
B ulletin --------------------------------------------M rs. G eorge A. R ace If you can help will you please contact one
Revisions.................
S o c ia ls ------------------------------------------- M rs. Jam es L . V adheim of these ladies? Thank you. . . .
Speakers B u re a u -------------------------M rs. John J. Bonica
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M rs. S tanley W . T uell
On August 4 about forty people gath
M inute W om en
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M rs. W ayn e W . Z im m erm an ered for a surprise housewarming for Eloise
Com m unity Service and
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..M rs. E lm er W . W ahlb erg and Jim McNerthney. (It really was a
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Cancer .
. M rs. J. R obert Brooke surprise. They have been in their new home
F inance
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Dance ......— -------------------M rs. A rnold J. H errm an n and
well over a year!) It rained, so the steaks
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M rs. W illiam R adem aker
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M rs. T hom as O . M urphy and
M rs. W illiam W . M attson, Jr. were broiled in the garage and eaten in
M ental H ealth ....................................._ M rs. John M. H av lina the grand, large recreation room.
Today s H e a lth
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Many of our members have been to the
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beaches for fishing trips. One large party
The calendar says summer is nearly over included Esther and Bill Avery, Pauline
—though I truly believe it forgot to come and Bud Bader and their two oldest boys,
—and college bells are ringing for Auxiliary Martin Eltrich, Charles Galbraith and his
brother, Fr. Kenneth Galbraith.
children.
Eileen and Bill Rademaker left their
Returning to the U. of W. are Mary and daughter-in-law
here and spent
Dorothy Avery, Tom and Jim Rigos. Miss their vacation atin charge
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ton. Bruce and George Teats will be in the Shores.
meetingl
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at Dr. Schultz’s camp. Carol Ann Hauser Faith Home needs tables of various sizes
will be at Gonzaga University in Spokane. — dining room, recreation room, sewing
Marianne Meier and brother, Tom, will be tables and end tables; if you have one you
at Seattle U. Marianne is in the nursing would like to contribute, please get in touch
field, dividing her time between the Uni with Jeanne Judd.
versity and St. Frances Cabrini Hospital.
Mary Kemp, who will attend Lewis and
Clark College in Portland, has been select Don't Forget To Vote . . .
ed as one student (of 15) to take part in an
experiment in international living. The
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An item of interest was the beautiful mili
tary wedding of one of our former O.R.
nurses, Rosemary Brascher, to Lieutenant
Frederick Dunwell. The bride was lovely
and all enjoyed the lavish reception at the
Officers’ Club. The bridal couple will travel
cross country for their honeymoon, and
make their new home in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Mille Dickson and her husband will
also be leaving in September for New York
and Washington, D.C., where Mr. Dickson
will continue medical school. We shall miss
her but we wish her well in this new
adventure.
The departure of our extern, S. R. Evans,
will undoubtedly leave a sad spot in the
hearts of many students as it will in sur
gery. He returns to the U. of Mississippi.
Dr. Wilson, anesthesia department had a
baby boy last July. He will be greatly
spoiled by four older sisters.
Surgery entrance has taken on a new
look with the installation of the automaticelectric doors.
Our three Medical Students from the U.
of Mississippi have returned for another
year of school. For two of them, James Day
and Douglas Cain, this is tbeir last year.
On September 5 six Medical Record
Technicians will begin their nine months
study in Medical Record Library Science.
The annual cruise for the student nurses
and the Sisters took place on Monday,
August 27, on the Harbor Queen. Other
social events during the summer which were
enjoyed by the student nurses were the
Doctors’ annual picnic at Lake Geneva and
the picnic at the Point.
D IETA R Y
We are all most grateful to have Sister
Winifred Marie back after her two months
Jubilee vacation.
All the annual vacations are over enab
ling all to return rested for another year of
work.
Max Warren, our “cart boy” will attend
St. Edward’s Seminary next month. Miss
Taguba and Miss Bryant will return to the
University of Washington to resume their
studies in Dietetics.
Doris Owens is again with us after the
arrival of her baby girl. Hattie Bazaar is
filling in for the summer.
Rose Remeto spent a couple of days in
the hospital last week.
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Here each individual member of this Asso
ciation has the opportunity to express his
opinion on the policy-making matters be
fore the 1962 Session of the House of
Delegates.
Tuesday’s scientific program will feature
medical television and the “W hat’s New”
General Session. Demand has instigated, in
this year’s scientific program, another Gen
eral Session on Tuesday afternoon. Doctors
should check the August issue of North
west Medicine or the program sent them
by the W.S.M.A. Central Office in early
August for complete details.
Dr. William B. Rew, W.S.M.A. President,
will deliver his Presidential Address at the
General Assembly at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday,
and Dr. Wesley W. Hall, Reno, a member
of the A.M.A. Board of Trustees will speak.
The fun-filled Tuesday Night Annual
Banquet and entertainment will round out
the day.
On Wednesday, there will be medical
television, general sessions, the final session
of the W.S.M.A. House of Delegates. Dean
K. Crystal, Seattle, will be installed as the
1962-63 President and honored at a Recep
tion that evening.
The Honorable Catherine May, Yakima,
first woman elected to Congress from the
State of Washington will speak before the
Wednesday Noon Public Relations Lunch
eon. You will like Catherine and her
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C o u n ty Societies . . .
I N THE NEWS
M agazine Group, Phoenix, Arizona
Polk County, Florida, during the past
month has sponsored advertisements in
many of their county papers. Subjects pre
sented in the advertisements were: “How
to Select a Doctor”; “Medical Costs”; “Im
munization”; and “The Mechanism of the
Medical Grievance Committee.” The So
ciety feels that this is an excellent means
to present messages to the public and will
continue with the program in the future.
Orange County, California, is seeing to
it that tomorrow’s doctors, nurses and
technicians learn the medical ropes first
hand through their “medical careers” pro
grams. Eight groups, involving twenty high
schools, are active in the county. These
groups range from 17-35 members and are
operated independently of each other.
Meetings are held in the evenings when
both the doctor and the students are on
their own time. The programs include tours
of various hospital departments, lectures
by specialists, movies of various phases of
medical science, demonstrations of tech
niques and almost all other phases of
medicine.
Greater K an ssa City (Jackson County)
M issouri,
physicians have just completed
the first year of their highly successful
“Journals for Overseas” program. Initiated
and developed solely by the physicians of
Greater Kansas City, this program has sent
over 1000 medical journals to 30 medical
schools in Asian-African countries. The re
sponse to receipt of these needed journals
has been most gratifying. The dispensing
and storing of the current literature has
been accomplished through the active co
operation of the Jackson County and Kan
sas University Medical Libraries.
Colum bia County, Pennsylvania, in their
July issue discussed a new book which gives
an inside look at government medicine in
seven countries. This book, Financing Medi
cal Care: A n Appraisal of Foreign Pro
grams, (Caxton Printers, Ltd., $5.50) ex
plores the organization, aims and results of
these systems in G reat Britain, France, West
Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and
Australia. Economists, actuaries, political
analysts, physicians, medical researchers,
statesmen and a theologian—all thoroughly
familiar with their own nations’ medical
systems—contributed to the book. Edited
by Helm ut Schoeck, professor of sociology
at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, this
book would appear a must for those who
w ant a comprehensive look at government
controlled medicine as practiced today.
Cleveland Academ y (Cuyahoga County)
Ohio,
recently completed the first two
rounds of their Sabin Oral Vaccine pro
gram. Types I and III were distributed to
over one and a half million persons, ap
proximately 932 of the county’s population.
The third round of vaccine, Type II is
planned for the latter part of July.
Q U O T E OF N O TE
You cannot bring about prosperity by dis
couraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weak
ening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling
down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man
by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by discouraging
the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on
borrowed money.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spend
ing more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away man’s initiative and inde
pendence.
You cannot help men permanently by do
ing for them w hat they could and should
do for themselves.
— A b r a h a m L in c o l n
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K T N T - T V - C h a n n e l
PROGRAMS
Sept. 16 - BACK TO SCHOOL
Dr. O rv is A . H a rre lso n , C h a irm a n
Sept. 23 - FOOT TROUBLE
Dr. G e o rg e G ilm a n , C h a irm a n
Sept. 30 - HEMORRHOIDS
Dr. R o b e rt G ib s o n , C h a irm a n
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P ie h c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
Failure Ratio of
2865 To One
TUESDAY
If profits in the drug industry w ere as ex
orbitant as some have claimed, I am at a
loss to explain why anyone holds the stock
of a corporation in any other field! The
truth, of course, is that profits are not ex
orbitant. And here’s why. In a recent year,
drug firms tested more than 114,600 sub
stances for possible medical application.
Only 40 of these have reached the drug
gist’s shelf. Thus, the failure ratio in drug
industry research is 2,865 to one! In this
industry, approximately 44 cents out of
every profit dollar is returned to the busi
ness for research, new plants and equip
ment. Since 1947, the drug industry has
spent more than $1 billion in research
alone. —Henry M. Moen, Executive Secre
tary, Minnesota State Pharmaceutical As
sociation, in Minnesota Pharmacist, April,
1962.
N e w C ham ps Likely
In Table Ten n is M eet
Another Physicians’ Handicap Table Ten
nis Tournament is scheduled for the first
Tuesday in September in Jackson Hall,
preceding and following the Tacoma Gen
eral Hospital Staff meeting. “Quickie”
tournaments in both singles and doubles
will be running concurrendy, with 11-point
games again in effect. Plans are being dis
cussed for a ladder type challenge system,
so that anyone may move up the ladder by
defeating one of the players above. W ith
the handicap system, everyone has a chance
to reach the top, so bring your paddle and
join the competition. Orv Harrelson will be
defending singles champion, so will be the
“man to beat” at this session.
Public H ealth Committee
The Public H ealth Committee has be
gun preliminary consideration regarding
the oral polio vaccination for our commun
ity starting November, 1962. The past ex
periences of other communities have been
drawn upon through the three companies
who produce the vaccine (Pfizer, Lederle
and W yeth), the Public Health Department
and our medical journals.
Two official meetings have been held and
our current recommendations will be pre
sented to our Medical Society Board of
Trustees.
W e are open to suggestions and every
one is invited to our meetings as well as
participating in a successful polio vaccin
ation program.
Respectfully submitted,
— P u b l ic H e a l t h C o m m it t e e
Cecil R. Fargher
Orvis Harrelson
Robert Johnson
Kenneth Graham
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Fierce County M edical Society
R. E. H eidbreder, Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust O ffic e r o f N ational
Bank o f W ashington, checks the progress o f a p a in tin g job w ith Glenn W ood.
"Takes more than a coat of paint to be a m oney-m aker," says R. E. Heidbreder,
Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust Officer of National Bank of W ashington.
And he should know! In his position in the Trust Department, he makes
sure that real property held in trust continues to produce income. Here,
Heidbreder's experience and acquaintance with people in the building trades is of
great value.
The coat of paint is important, of course, but it is only part of National Bank
of W ashington's trust services involving efficient property management. Such
management assures that the individual's plans for retention, appreciation, or
development of his property will be fulfilled according to his direction.
If your estate includes real property, you need a specialist like R. E. Heidbreder
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BULLETIN of the
PIERCE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING
Tuesday, October 9
PROGRAM - - - 8:15 P.M.
RICHARD
G.
CHRISTENSEN
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE
FOR
UNITED STATES SENATE
NOTE . . . Because Mr. Christensen has another commitment the
same evening, the program will precede the business meeting and
his address to the doctors will begin PROMPTLY AT 8:15.
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P ik h ce C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
October Calendar of Meetings
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
TUESDAY
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Tac. Acad, of Psy.
& Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
Tacoma Ortho.
Soc.— 8:00 p.m.
8
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
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5
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Pierce Co. Ped.
Soc.— 6:00 p.m.
10
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C.P.C.—Tacoma
General
8 to 9 a.m.
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P. Co. Acad, of
General Practice
6:30 p.m.
Tacoma Acad, of
Internal Med.
6 p.m.
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General
8 to 9 a.m.
Tacoma Surgical
Club— 6:30 p.m.
22
13
C.P.C.— Mt. View
General
8 to 9 a.m.
Pierce County
M edical Society
8:15 p.m.
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Among other actions at its annual meet
ing, the H ouse of D elegates of the Wash
ington State M edical Association gave its
board of trustees authorization to proceed
with negotiations with those osteopaths who
have the training and desire to affiliate them
selves with the m edical profession. In order
to qualify, an osteopath must have an M.D.
degree from an approved m edical school
and must have a license to practice medicine
and surgery in the State of Washington.
There are six schools of osteopathy in the
United States and they have about 500 grad
uates annually. Surveys of their curriculum
show their standards are not far removed
from those of approved m edical schools. In
fact, the California M edical School in Los
Angeles has been approved by the Council
on M edical Education and Hospitals of the
A.M.A. and the Association of American
M edical Colleges to grant the M.D. degree.
All M .D. degrees given to osteopaths so far have been from this
school.
In the last two years, a committee of the W SM A headed by
Dr. Harold Law s of Seattle and having Drs. W ayne Zimmerman and
Jess Read of Tacom a as members has met with representatives of the
State osteopaths to develop a plan of cooperation. The younger, welltrained group of osteopaths (about 60-80 in W ashington) have re
signed from the old osteopathic association and formed their own
organization. This younger group (14 of whom already have an
M.D. degree) are interested in becom ing m embers of county medical
societies with all the privileges and responsibilities. The “old guard”
of osteopaths broke oft negotiations with our liaison committee. They
desire to retain their identity as osteopaths and along with A.O.A.
are fighting the efforts of the younger osteopaths to merge with the
m edical profession.
We feel that both professions will benefit from the closer inter
change of experience and knowledge and the public will be afforded
better m edical care. It will very likely be at least a year before any
former osteopaths are adm itted to membership in m edical organiza
tions in Washington.
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Did you know that one of the major political parties in this State
dem ands that any candidate receiving its support sign a written
agreement that his decisions will abide by directions from the party?
Apparently his own conscience and his obligations to the citizenry
are influences he must ignore. To quote from the official platform,
“ . . . party financial and manpower support shall go only to those
nominees . . . who state in writing their general agreement with
this platform and platform planks and who . . . further state they
will abide by the majority decision of their . . .” party caucus.
If this rather foreboding policy statem ent is news to you, per
haps you should take a more thorough look at both party platforms.
If you vote along party lines to any extent, you should be prepared
to intelligently discuss that party’s platform. Inquiry should be made
at local party headquarters for copies of the respective platforms.
If not available locally, copies of the platform of either party may
be obtained by sending 25c per copy to Republican Headquarters,
633 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington.
S.W.T.
OVERWEIGHT?
THE ANOREXIC T H A T ’S D IFFER EN T:
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B U L L E T IN of the P ie r c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
It’s there when you need it. These six words
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ticularly when that antimycotic is Fungizone (amphotericin B )....H ere you have a
highly potent agent which acts in the g.i. tract when given by mouth. Potent, yet virtu
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prevents monilial overgrowth while utilizing the full force of tetracycline against
a wide range o f pathogens. Once you’ve decided in favor of broad-spectrum therapy,
th'Kforc’ Mysteclin-F is good practice.
1. L ehan, P. H ., Yaces,
J. L., B ra sh er, C. A .,
Larsh, H. W , and Furcolow, M. L.: Diseases of
C h e st 3 2 :5 9 7 , 1 9 5 7 .
2. N ew co m er, V . D .,
Sternberg, T. H., Wright,
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J . C h ro n ic D ise a se s
9:353, 1959.
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BULLETIN o f th e
Christensen Here For
October Society Meeting;
Full House Expected
Judging from previous performances, the
place will be packed and you’d better ar
rive early if you want a seat. The “place”
in this instance will be the Medical Arts
Building auditorium on Tuesday, October
9. At least one of the previous perform
ances was the stirring address given by
Senatorial candidate, Richard G. Christen
sen, to a standing-room-only crowd of
doctors and their wives at the State M edi
cal Association meeting in Spokane last
month. A similar response is expected on
Tuesday when Christensen has consented
to speak at the regular monthly meeting of
the Pierce County Medical Society. Doc
tors will have a chance to meet him in
person at the social hour and dinner at
Honan’s before the meeting. Because of a
previous commitment, his address to the
doctors will begin promptly at 8:15 p.m.
Christensen, at 32, with no previous
political experience, has chosen a Pete
Rademacher type of approach for his politi
cal career, stepping into the ring against
one of the seasoned champs of W ashington
State politics for his first professional en
counter. Already this outspoken proponent
of free enterprise has gained a wide fol
lowing, including an enthusiastic group
known as the W OW ’s (meaning Women On
the W arpath). He left the Lutheran min
istry to enter politics, is the father of three
daughters, has earned the support of many
doctors by his aggressive opposition to
M edicare legislation.
Pierce County Physicians
In Important Roles at
State Meeting
Delegates and other members of the
Pierce County Medical Society played key
roles in the conduct of official business at
the recent meeting of the Washington State
Medical Association in Spokane. County
Society President, Marshall Whitacre, was
a member of a reference committee which
spent all day Tuesday reviewing the cur
rently crucial issue of amalgamation of the
osteopaths with physicians. The thorough
work and well-presented conclusions of this
committee were im portant factors in facili
tating prom pt action on this matter by the
House of Delegates at its final session. The
special committee which had spent many
months preparing a report on the osteop
athy problem was chairmanned by Dr.
H arold Laws of Seattle and included
W ayne Zimmerman and Jess Read of Ta
coma as members.
Doug Buttorff played the important role
of Chairman of the reference committee
which reviewed the reports of all standing
committees of the State Association, and
his concise report presented before the
House of Delegates also expedited speedy
conduct of business at its final session.
At the initial session of the House on
Sunday, September 16, Jess Read gave a
report as A.M.A. delegate. All six of your
elected delegates from Pierce County were
present for both sessions of the House of
Delegates. They were: Doug Buttorff,
Arnie Herrmann, Marshall Whitacre, Stan
Tuell, George Kittredge and Wayne
Zimmerman. Also in attendance at each
session were Jess Read and our two mem
bers of the State Board of Trustees, Bill
Brown and Herm an Judd; Judy Gordon,
executive secretary, was also present for
the entire meeting.
Among the officers elected by the House
of Delegates at its final session were Jess
Read, elected for another term as delegate
to the A.M.A.; Bill Bowen, elected to an
other two-year term as trustee from the
W estern District, and Marshall Whitacre,
elected to a one-year term as trustee-atlarge.
Long-term effectiveness of M E T I C O R T E N continues to
be demonstrated in J. G., the arthritic miner whose
to lead a fully activ e life to d ay , a fter seven years o f therapy.
before M e t i c o r t e n — Rheumatoid arthritis com
despite cortisone, gold and analgesics___ Hydro
since M e t i c o r t e n — Prompt improvement with M e t ic o r t e n , begun April
2,1955— Returned to work that same year Maintained to date on
M e t ic o r t e n , 10-15 mg./day, w ith o u t se rio u s sid e effe c ts, w ith jo in t p a in
c o n tro lle d a n d fu ll u se o f h a n d s a n d lim b s.
C ase h istory provided by Jo el G old m an , M .D ., Jo h n sto w n , P a. O riginal p h oto grap h N ovem ber 10,1960;
follow -up p h otographs, N ovem ber 29, 1961.
M e t i c o r t e n , ® bran d of p rednisone. s -ot*
remember this
arthritic miner,
doctor?
he’s still working
after another
successful year
(his 7th)
on bMeticorten®
ra n d of prednisone
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BULLETIN of the
Few Tacom ans on
Scientific Program
A t State Session
Though scientific papers were presented
by over 140 physicians at the State Medical
Association meeting in Spokane last month,
only two of these were from the Tacoma
area. Virginia L. Larsen presented a paper
entitled “Psychological Study of Colloquial
Menstrual Expressions”, and Jerman W.
Rose gave a paper on “A Program for Resi
dential and Day Care for Disturbed Chil
dren and Their Families.”
Some representation on the scientific pro
gram was also provided by James Vadheim
who was chairman of the entire Monday
morning Surgery Scientific Program, and
by Horace Anderson who served as chair
man for the entire general scientific session
on W ednesday afternoon. Horace is con
cluding a year as President of the W ash
ington State Society of Internal Medicine,
and Jim has been President of the W ash
ington State Chapter of the American Col
lege of Surgeons for the past year.
Of twelve scientific exhibits at the State
meeting, none were prepared by Pierce
Counts' physicians.
Tacom a Physicians
Jo in 50-Year Club
Four Tacoma physicians were among the
16 who joined the 50-Year Club at the
State Medical Association meeting in Spo
kane last month. Though not present to
receive their lapel pins from the Associa
tion, the following Tacoma doctors were
honored for their 50 years of service to the
public and the profession: Darcy Dayton,
Elizabeth Drake, Arthur C. Leslie and Leo
J. Hunt.
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of the F ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y
ITS
sign
of
infection?
sym bol
of
therapy!
I l o s o n e ® i s b e t t e r a b s o r b e d — It provides high, long-lasting levels of antibacterial activity—two to
four times those of other erythromycin preparations—even on a full stomach. I l o s o n e i s b a c t e r i c i d a l
—It provides bactericidal action against streptococci, pneumococci, and some strains of staphylo
cocci. I l o s o n e a c t i v i t y i s c o n c e n t r a t e d — It exerts its greatest activity against the gram-positive
organisms—the offending pathogens in most common bacterial infections of the respiratory tract
and soft tissues.
The usual dosage fo r infants and fo r children under twenty-five pounds is 5 mg. per pound every
six hours; for children twenty-five to fifty pounds, 125 mg. every six hours. For adults and fo r children
over fifty pounds, the usual dosage is 250 mg. every six hours. In more severe or deep-seated infec
tions, these dosages may be doubled. Ilosone is available in three convenient form s:
Pulvules®—125 and 250 m g.*; Oral Suspension—125 m g.* per 5-cc. teaspoonful; and
Drops—5 mg.* per drop, w ith dropper calibrated at 25 and 50 mg.
T h is is a re m in de r a d vertisem ent, For a d e q u a te in lo rm a tio n lor u se , p le a se c o n s u lt m a n u la c t u r e r 's litorature. Ell L illy an d
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hats or tranquilizers...
to alleviate cardiac anxiety
I N B R I E F \ V i s t a r i l . h y d r o x y z in e p a m o a t e ( o r a l) a n d h y d r o x y z i n e h y d r o c h l o r i d e ( p a r e n t e r a l) , I s a c a lm in g a g e n t unre
la te d c h e m ic a ll y to p h e n o t h ia z in e , r e s e r p in e . o r m e p r o b a m a t e . V is t a r il h a s a n t i n a u s e a n t a n d a n tie m e t ic p rope rtie s,
a n d h a s b e e n s h o w n t o lo w e r n a r c o t ic r e q u i r e m e n t s b y a s m u c h a s 5 0 p e r c e n t w h e n a d m in is t e r e d p reo p erative ly
a n d p r e p a r t u m . It s u s e f u l n e s s in r e lie v in g a n x ie t y , a p p r e h e n s i o n , o r f e a r — o c c u r r i n g a lo n e o r in a s s o c ia t io n with
p h y s ic a l d is e a s e — is e n h a n c e d
b y t h e fa c t t h a t n o t o x ic it y h a s b e e n re p o rt e d f r o m it s u s e u n d e r p ro p e r tech
n i q u e s a t r e c o m m e n d e d d o s a g e s , a n d b y i t s r e m a r k a b l e re c o r d o f f r e e d o m f r o m s e r i o u s s i d e e ffe c ts. D ro w sin e s s,
u s u a ll y
t r a n s it o r y o r c o r r e c t a b le b y d o s a g e
r e d u c tio n , m a y o c c u r in
o c c u r w it h h ig h e r d o s e s . It s p o t e n t ia t in g a c t io n s h o u l d b e
t io n w it h a n t i c o a g u la n t s a n d c e n t ra l n e r v o u s s y s t e m
so m e
in s t a n c e s .
D r y n e s s o f m outh m ay
t a k e n in t o a c c o u n t w h e n V is t a r il is u s e d in c o n ju n c
d e p re ssa n ts.
In t r a v e n o u s in je c t io n o f V is t a ril sh o u ld n ot
e x c e e d a ra te o f 1 cc. p e r m in u t e o r 1 0 0 m g . p e r d o s e . F o r c o m p le t e i n f o r m a t i o n o n V is t a r il d o s a g e , a d m in istra tio n ,
a n d p r e c a u t io n s , c o n s u l t p a c k a g e in s e r t b e f o r e u s in g . M o r e d e t a ile d p r o f e s s io n a l in f o r m a t io n a v a ila b le o n r e q u e s t
S c ie n c e le i the w o tld 's w e ll-b e in g *
(Pfizer)
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the purpose determines the choice
1
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Vistaril
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In addition to the calming action you expect from an effective tranquil
izer , Vistaril provides extra benefits specifically for the cardiac patient.
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mild sedative action
reported beneficial effects in arrhythmias of acute onset and short duration
compatibility with digitalis
excellent control of nausea and vomiting
reduction of analgesic and narcotic dosage on parenteral administration
VISTARIL Capsules and Oral Suspension, hydroxyzine pam oate/P arenteral Solution, hydroxyzine hydrochloride
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BULLETIN of the
M O U N T A IN VIEW FUNERAL HOME
UNDERTAKING
CEMETERY
CHAPEL
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WOMAN'S AUXILIARY . . .
a Holiday.” This event to be held Thursday,
October 25 at 12:30 p.m. luncheon at the
P resid e n t ...............
M rs. H erm an S. Ju d d Top of the Ocean. Billie Murphy and BiPresident-Elect _....................................
M rs.P hilip G renley
1st V ice-P resid en t—........................._.M rs. R obert W . O sborne anca Mattson are co-chairmen and Lou
2nd V ice-P resident..............
—.M rs . D u d ley W . H outz Johnson will do the show. Elvina Brokaw
3rd V ice-P resid en t ...................
M rs. L eo F . Sulkosky
4th V ice-President ...................................
M rs. M. J. W icks
Recording Secretary ............................. M rs. R obert P. C rabill and Sheila Dimant are taking reservations.
....................M rs. Jack M andeviU e Phyllis Erickson and Edith Lawrence are in
Treasurer -......................
M rs. H askel L. M aicr
Assistant Treasurer ... ___
M rs. G lenn H . Brokaw charge of decorations. Helping with gen
American M edical E ducation
eral arrangements are Marj Wicks and
Foundation ......
M rs. G aien H . H oover
National Bulletin ----------------------------M rs. R o b ert A. Kallsen Wibbie Bischoif. A partial list of models
Civil D efense and S afety .....................M rs. T hom as H . S krinar includes: Ruth Murphy, Helen Florence,
H isto rian..................................
M rs.H e rb e rt C.K ennedy
L egislative________________ M rs. G eorge C. G ilm an and
Muriel Nelson and Marj Wicks. A diagram
of table arrangements will again be in
M em bership................
M rs. R obert C. Johnson and
M rs. M yron A. Bass
P aram edical-------------M rs. L eo n ard M orley the foyer so you may find your place easily.
P ro g ram
......
M rs. Joseph B. H arris Many of our members have worked hard
Publicity .......................................
M rs.
G ovnor Teats
Bulletin....................
M rs. G eorge A. Race on this project—do come and bring your
Revisions
........................ ....................M rs. K enneth E . Gross
friends. Show them we appreciate their
Social—------------------------------------------- M rs. Jam es L. V adheim
Speakers B u re a u — ......................
M rs. John J. Bonica efforts.
___
~ > W.... Tuell
_
Telephone
............... M' 'rs. Stanley
Pierce County had a wonderful group
M inute W o m e n ____
M rs. F ran k J. Rigos and
M rs. W ayne W . Zim merm c
attending the Auxiliary sessions of the
Com m unity Service and
C o u n cil .....................
....M rs. E lm er W . W ahlberg State Convention in Spokane: Jeanne Judd,
H eart ________ ______ ____
M rs. H . A. A nderson
C ancer
___ ________
Mrs. J. R obert Brooke Ruth Murphy, Dorothy Maier, Stephanie
Finance
..............
— M rs. K enneth E . Gross Tuell, Ruth Brooke, Lorraine Adams, Keaty
D an ce
........
— M rs. A rnold J. H errm ann and
M rs. W illiam R adem aker Gross, Jeanne Vadheim, Lorraine Kunz,
Fashion Show....
— M rs. T hom as O. M urphy and
, ,T , ,
M rs. W illiam W . M attson. Jr. Phyllis Erickson, Helen Kittredge, Joyce
M ental H e a lth -------------------M rs. Jo h n M. H avlina Galbraith, Gerri Reynolds, Hazel Whitacre,
M rs. B ern ard A. Row en
T o d ay s H e a lth ...............
Kay Herrmann, Dottie Read, Wanda Rose,
Cook Book ......................M rs. Thom as B. M urphy and
Mrs. R obert A. O 'C onnell Irma Wahlberg and Priscilla Stuen attend
ed many of the meetings. President Jeanne
will have a complete report for us at
The first meeting of the Pierce County Judd
October meeting.
Medical Auxiliary for 1962-63 will be held theThe
were well entertained by the
October 19 at the home of Mrs. George Spokaneladies
Auxiliary. There was a style show,
Kunz, 21 Orchard Road. This will be a golf
an organ concert at St.
noon luncheon meeting with Mrs. John John'stournament,
Cathedral (reported to be the larg
Flynn and Mrs. George Moosey as chair est organ
in the world) followed by a tea
men. Assisting with the luncheon will be
a member’s home. An all-doctor musical
Mesdames Francis Hennings, Hugh Larkin at
and Haskel Maier. There will be no formal group played for a dinner-dance and proprogram but we will meet the four young
ladies who have received the Auxiliary
nursing scholarships for this year. At Ta
coma General Hospital Martha Smith, a
seniors whose parents live in Forest Grove,
N O W UN DER C O N ST R U C T IO N
Oregon, and June Halmo, a junior from
Tacoma, were selected. Winners at St.
PROFESSIONAL
Joseph’s were Marguerite Ryser, a junior
from Hoquiam and Mary McGuire, also a
CENTER
junior, from Snoqualmie. Each girl will re
ceive two hundred dollars from the Auxili
offering modern space for medical
ary and each girl was selected by the schol
suites in fast gro w in g residential area.
arship committee of her nursing school.
Phone TE 3-1689
Available at this meeting: our Cook
xiooks! Bring your Christmas list and make
AUBURN
the most of this easy way to shop. Also,
tickets for the style show, “Fashion Takes
AUXILIARY OFFICERS— 1962-1963
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P ie h c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
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mal occurrence of patient intolerance or
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congestant and anti-inflam m atory relief.
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vided some hilarious moments with their
quick ad-libs and patter.
And a sight to remember from Conven
tion: Prez Jeanne and friend Hazel occupy
ing four chairs at every meeting—Jeanne
nursing a sprained ankle and Hazel a sore
back and case of the sniffles brought on by
the air-conditioning. Poor gals—not a doc
tor in sight!
Jeanne Vadheim will miss the October
meeting. She and Jim will be attending the
25th anniversary reunion of Jim’s class at
the University of Minnesota.
This year a great effort will be made to
help members attend our meetings who
have not been active in the past. If you
need transportation, are new in town and
don’t know any of the members, don’t care
to come alone, or have other reasons why
you don’t regularly attend, please discuss
the problem with the woman who calls you.
All doctors’ wives should be members of
this group. We have the same basic inter
ests as members of the medical field and
thus a duty to our husbands and ourselves.
Please make every effort to become an
active member.
See you October 19th!
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Tanbara N ew Table
Tennis Cham p
A come-from-behind win over Marshall
Whitacre gave George Tanabara the singles
championship in the table tennis tourna
ment at Jackson Hall on Sept. 4. Besides
the regular tournament, a ladder type of
tournament was also started, allowing any
individual to work toward the top by
challenging and defeating anyone higher
up the ladder. This will be a continuing
type of tournament carried on through sub
sequent meets.
Attendance has slackened somewhat at
the last few' tournaments and this has been
attributed in part to the discontinuation of
the dinner portion of the evening program
at Tacoma General on staff meeting nights.
The expressed enjoyment of the spirited
competition and good fellowship by all at
tending appears to warrant continuing
tournaments, however, and it is hoped that
attendance will be improved at the next
tournament, scheduled for Tuesday . . .
December 4.
Tacoma’s ONIT Class "A” Medical Building
The Medical Arts Building located in the hearl
of Tacoma—where it should be— provides
M edical A r t s B uilding
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BULLETIN of the
HOSPITALS
Sain t Jo se p h 's
Reminder to all Staff members of St.
Joseph’s that the quarterly meeting will be
held the third M onday in October which
is October 15. The meeting was changed
from September as it conflicted w ith the
Annual W ashington State Medical meeting.
We hope to have a 100 per cent attend
ance for this meeting.
The new Administrator and Superior of
St. Joseph’s Hospital is Sister Mary Cuniberta. Sister came here from St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital, Baker, Oregon, where she was
Administrator for the past six years. Pre
viously she was Director of the School of
Nursing in Pendleton, Oregon. Sister has
her degree from St. Louis University and
is a member of the American College of
Hospital Administrators. W e are very happy
to welcome Sister to our hospital and our
community.
have the unit in and are ready for any
emergencies that may arise. We were espe
cially gratified at the low level noise while
the generator is running.
The addition of acoustical tile in the near
future will cut the noise level down even
more. In most parts of the hospital we will
not even be aware that it is in operation.
The new South End 3rd floor medicine
room is nearing completion. All cabinets
and wood work have been completed and
the painter is busy with paint and varnish.
A new refrigerator will also be part of the
new equipm ent. The room should be ready
for use soon.
Frank Firstl is a recent addition to the
maintenance crew and is busy learning the
various jobs that are called for from this
department.
PRACTICAL NU RSES
At the beginning of the Fall Semester
the Practical Nurse Program of Tacoma
Vocational-Technical Institute enrolled
forty-eight new students. Among this preclinical class there were students from Italy,
Korea, Costa Rica, Russia, and twelve states
SCHOOL OF N U RSIN G
other than Washington. These students will
The Senior Class has completed the pro be starting their clinical experience at St.
gram and some of its members have as Joseph’s in January.
sumed staff positions in St. Joseph’s
Hospital.
M EDICAL RECORDS DEPT.
The school year officially opens October
A state of slight hysteria prevailed in the
1 with Holy Mass offered by Reverend Medical Records Department September 5,
Joseph Logan, S.J. It will be wonderful to when Sister Mary Emmanuel found herself
see our new Seniors and new Juniors get confronted w ith seven new students.
into the swing of things again. September
Two of our students, Sister Anne Mar
24 will mark the start of orientation for our garet and Gail Hallman come from Oregon.
new class of Pre-Clinical students. W e are Patricia Ek comes to us from Battle Ground,
looking forward to thirty-eight new faces W ashington; Judy Rauch is from Milton,
joining the Student Body. Two of these will W ashington; and Sandra Bergstrom, San
be male students. The students come to us dra Seaman, and Lauretta Schmidt come
from the states of Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, from the Tacoma area.
Oregon, and Washington.
Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Fournier are welcome
MEETINGS
as members of the faculty this year. W e are
The W ashington State Conference of the
looking forward to having them and hope Catholic Hospital Association will hold its
we will not tire them out too soon.
annual meeting in St. Joseph Hospital on
W
ednesday, October 17. This is a one-day
MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT
which will consist of the Business
Our new washing machine has arrived meeting
Session
in
the morning and the Program in
and the crew is busy in the installation the afternoon.
and checking out the operation of this new
The theme is “The Role of the Catholic
piece of equipment. Due to the size of the Hospital
in the Community.”
washer, a number of systems, drains and
Speakers
are: Father Jerome Toner,
water lines had to be rerouted. W e hope O.S.B., nationally
known for his work on
to have the washer in full operation soon.
Labor
Relations
and
allied problems. Other
Last week we had a test run on our new
are: John J. Eckhart, teacher, lec
emergency generator and it functioned per speakers
fectly. There are still a few minor points turer, and writer; Samuel Brown, from
to be straightened out, however, but we do
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th a n k s to a d o c to r a n d T h o r a z in e ’
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■ sp e c ific
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tre atm e n t
fo r
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it is :
to
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u n d e rlyin g
and e xc ite m e n t
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cases
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X-RAY
During the summer months four stu
dents graduated and left the department.
They are Mary Jo Armstrong, Kay Brown,
Patricia DesChane, and Jerry Walters. Mr.
Walters is now attending St. Martin’s Col
lege while the others are employed by
local doctors.
The five new students, now in their third
month of training are becoming well ac
quainted with the fundamentals of x-ray
technology through classwork and practice
experience in the department.
The new Picker X-ray diagnostic ma
chine which has just been installed is now
near completion. With the combined efforts
of the carpenters and painter we anticipate
a housewarming in the near future. This
latest addition to the department has the
newest and most modern facilities now
available. It is fully equipped wtih fluoro
scopic and body section accessories.
Body section radiography is the special
technique used for demonstrating a selected
plane or layer of body structures. It is a
remarkably effective tool for exploring ana
tomical structures, revealing detail ordin
arily obscured by superimposition.
With this new equipment the kilovolt
range is capable of being raised thereby
reducing the exposure time which is most
helpful with children and adults wdio can
not suspend respirations. We can now take
x-rays at 1/120 of a second.
CLINICAL LABORATORY
We have three new students in the lab
now; and we are in hopes that they will
learn quickly so that they will be able to
take over the duties of Belen Manzano,
Linda Rosin, and Tom Curtis who are leav
ing us. Tom is going back to school, Belen
to the Philippines, and Linda is going to
work in Seattle. As much as we hate to
see them go, we do wish them the best of
luck in their new positions.
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Th e se le ad in g antihypertensive com bin ation s are
p ra ctic a lly all alike.
T h is one is d iffe re n t...
because Se r-A p -E s offers a unique benefit which m akes blood pressure
control more certain: the central and peripheral antihypertensive actions of
Apresoline.By adding Apresoline to the regimens of their patients, Duplere/g/1
succeeded in bringing blood pressure down after rauwolfia-diuretic
therapy failed. Using Ser-Ap-Es, Hobbs2 reduced average blood pressure
from 175/100 mm. Hg to148/85 mm. Hg in 74 hypertensive patients, Side
effects? Rarely a problem with S e r-A p -E s because effective dosage is low.
S U P P L IE D : S E R - A P - E S Tablets, each containing 0.1 mg. S E R P A S IL ® (re se rp ln e C !B A ),2 5 mg.
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Oct. 7 - GLASSES - CONTACT LENSES
Dr. Max Brachvogel, Chairman
Oct. 14 - STAPH INFECTIONS
Dr. Charles Reberger, Chairman
Oct. 21 - ACUTE ABDO M IN AL PAIN
Dr. W illiam E. Avery, Chairman
Oct. 28 - YOUR DIET
Dr. Thomas H. Clark, Chairman
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Dade County, Florida, recently held their
Fourth Annual Athletic Injuries Clinic for
high school coaches, trainers and princi
IN THE NEWS
pals. The program consisted of such topics
as: Common Injuries to and Protective
M agazine Group, Phoenix, Arizona
Measures for the Teeth; Medical-Legal As
Milwaukee County, W isconsin, physi pects of Coaches’ Responsibilities When a
cians met with members of five professional Player is Injured; Upper Respiratory In
organizations at the first meeting of the fections and Infectious Mononucleosis.
recently organized Interprofessional Com
mittee. The organizations represented at
Tacom a Physicians
the meeting were: Bar Association; Greater
Milwaukee Dental Association; Milwaukee
Registered at W SM A
County Pharmacist’s Association; M ilwau
kee District, Wisconsin Nurses Association;
M eeting
Milwaukee Association of Commerce. The
Samuel
E.
Adams,
Horace A. Anderson,
Committee was created to bring about liai J. W. Bowen, Jr., J. Robert
Brooke, Douglas
son with various allied professions.
P.
Buttorff,
Homer
T.
Clay,
Charles J. Gal
Fairfax County, Virginia, recently be
braith, Erna Guilfoil, Orvis A. Harrelson,
came the first area to have a large scale test Arnold
Homer W. Humistonj
trial of measles vaccine. About 125 doctors, HermanJ.S.Herrmann,
Judd,
Charles
E. Kemp, George
technicians and nurses donated their time S. Kittredge, Gerald C. Kohl,
George G. R.
to give the shots. The project was jointly Kunz,
C. Kyle, Virginia L. Larsen,
sponsored by the Medical Society and Haskel Philip
L. Maier, Thomas B. Murphy, Jess
County Health Department. In tests already W. Read,
C. Reynolds, Jerman W.
given by individual doctors, it was found Rose, LouisChris
M.
Rosenbladt,
R, Stuen,
that 97 per cent of the children became Stanley W. Tuell, James L. M.
G.
immune. The results of the tests will be Marshall W hitacre, and Vadheim,
Wayne W.
studied and submitted to the National Insti Zimmerman.
tute of Health before the drug is licensed.
Maricopa County, Arizona, intends to be
gin the first session of their new medical
secretarial school on October 1. Called the
T aco m a B ra ce
Southwestern Preparatory School, this
school will give a four month course for
& L im b Co.
women interested in becoming medical sec
retaries. The course will consist of three
months in the classroom and one month of
internship in a doctor’s office. Sessions will
be half-day, five days a week. Various parts
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of the course will be taught by doctors and
other experts in the particular fields
covered.
Expertly fitted—
Tulsa County, Oklahoma, will take under
Artificial Lim bs
consideration a proposed program designed
to expand the scope of industrial health
facilities and personnel in their area. Some
Su rgical Belts
of the purposes of the program are: to
establish and maintain a roster of Society
Arch Supports
members willing and available to furnish
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and to interest more physicians in qualify
ing themselves in industrial medicine. The
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to industry which would evaluate occupa
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Hypertension is Topic for Public Health Committee
14th Annual Symposium
Recommendation
Hypertension is the topic for the four
teenth annual symposium on heart disease
of the Washington State Heart Association
in cooperation with the Washington State
Department of Health, Friday and Satur
day, November 9 and 10 at the University
of Washington Health Sciences Building in
Seattle.
Five visiting lecturers have been named:
Walter M. Kirkendall, University of Iowa
Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa; Dr. Albert
Sjoerdsma, National Heart Institute Bethesda, Maryland; Dr. David Sutton, St. Mary’s
Hospital, London, England; Dr. Louis M.
Tobian, University of Minnesota, Minneap
olis, Minnesota and Dr. J. Edwin Wood,
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta,
Georgia.
The symposium is approved for credit in
Category I, the American Academy of
General Practice.
There is no registration fee. Registration
forms will be sent to all physicians in Pierce
County. Further information on the pro
gram, registration, and arrangements to
accommodate physicians is available by
calling the Pierce County Heart Association.
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The following recommendation of the
Public Health Committee was approved by
the Board of Trustees at the September
meeting . . .
“That the Pierce County Medical Society
wait until the results of the current investi
gation of Type III oral polio vaccine are
known before making any definite com
mitment as to a community polio immuni
zation program for Pierce County.”
State Association
Honors Humiston
Though the political wars here at home
kept him away from his usually active role
at the State Medical Association meeting,
Homer Humiston was present in Spokane
for a meeting of the Executive Committee
of which he is Chairman. The Association
honored him by presentation of a wrist
watch in appreciation of his eight years of
service as Speaker of the House, President
and Chairman of the Executive Committee.
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First T ue sday o f each m onth— 8 :00 p.m.
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N O V E M B E R - 1962
REGULAR MEETING
NOVEMBER 13
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P h ch ce C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c i e t y
1962
OFFICERS
President ................-______
...G. M. W hitacre
President-Elect .......................................
~Stanley W . Tuell
V ice-President
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Secretary-Treasurer ............................. .. Arnold J. Herrmann
Hap* py
you,
Executive Secretary ..........................
Judy Gordon
TRUSTEES
John F. Comfort
John Shaw
Dale D. Doherty
Robert M. Ferguson
W arren F. Smith
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Georye A. Tanbara
George C. Kittredge
Stanley W . Tuell
Chris C. Reynolds
G. M. W hitacre
N O V E M B E R
D ELEG A TES
Douglas Buttorff
Stanley W . Tuell
G. M. W hitacre
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CHARLES E. KEMP
George S. Kittredge
W ayne W . Zimmerman
ALTERNATE DELEGATES
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CARL O. GRANQUIST
Robert W . Florence
Glenn H. Brokaw
G lenn G. McBride
J.
HUGH KALKUS
Robert M. Ferguson
GEORGE
A. MOOSEY
CO M M ITTEES
Ethics
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ILLIAM
C. BROWN
Frank R. M addison
6 SHERMAN S. PINTO
G rievance
8 WAYNE W. ZIMMERMAN
J. W . Bowen, Jr.
C. B. Ritchie
Program
11 K EN N ETH H. STURDEVANT
Charles J. G albraith, Chairman
Dale Doherty
Orvis A. Harrelson
13 DALE D. DOHERTY
Public Relations
PAUL E. GERSTMANN
Robert M. Ferguson
Dale Doherty
14 THOMAS H. CLARK
John R. Alger
George A. Tanbara
KIYOAKY HORI
Library
16 GALEN H. HOOVER
Clinton A. Piper
Robert M. Ferguson
17 T. R. HALEY
Robert E. Lane
Public H ealth
18. G. M. W HITACRE
George A. T anbara, Chairman
Orvis A. Harrelson
Robert C. Johnson
19 CALVIN R. LANTZ
Cecil R. Fargher
Kenneth Graham
20 JOSEPH A. BENSON
House and A ttendance
Q.9. EDW ARD S. EYLANDER
Robert C. Johnson
Glenn H. Brokaw
Civil D isaster
VERNON O. LARSON
JOHN M. SHAW
D avid T. H ellyer
Leo F. Sulkosky
Charles E. Kemp
A rthur P. Wickstrom
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JOHN R. ALGER
Kenneth Graham
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Robert D. McGreal
D iabetes
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W ILLIAM M cPHEE
Robert H. Bias
D udley W . Houtz
T. J. SM ITH
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E ntertainm ent
Robert A. O ’Connell, Chairman
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JOHN COLEN
Robert C. Johnson
John R. Alger
Robert W . Osborne
W
ILLIAM RADEMAKER
Geriatrics
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THOMAS
A. SMEALL
Glerni H. Brokaw, Chairman
James E. Hazelrigg
Marcel Malden
Legislative
W ayne W . Zimmerman, Chairman
Charles R. Bogue
Orvis A. Harrelson
O FFIC E SPACE FO R RENT. Lakewood area •
Douglas P. Buttorff
J. H ugh Kalkus
M.D. or dentist. JU 8-5258.
M edical Education
Edm und A. Kanar, Chairman
Max S. Thomas
Rodger S. Dille
Schools
SITUATION WANTED. Woman desires full or
D avid L. Sparling, Chairman
Robert C. Johnson
Haskel L. Maier
part-tim e position as Doctor’s assistant-recepJohn M. Kanda
R. A. Norton
tionist. Secretarial experience, also experi
M. E. Lawrence
ence assitsing in Ob-Gyn and Surgical Clinics.
M ental H ealth
Mrs. Marjorie Schwellenbach, JU 8-6123.
M. R. Stuen
H arlan P. McNutt
Traffic and Safety
L. Stanley D urkin, Chairman
Robert M. Chambers
Cover Picture . , . Cushman Dam No. 2,
Poison Control
D avid L. Sparling, Chairman
nestled
among the Olympic mountains
Claris Allison
K enneth Graham
about 15 miles north of Shelton, was com
Bernard A. Bader
Charles C. Reberger
Rodger S. Dille
George T anbara
pleted by Tacoma City Light in 1931.
Allen Eagelson (Advisory M em ber)
Coupled w ith its sister dam, it forms one
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Editor— .......... ....................................................... Stanley W . Tuell of the state’s largest man-made lakes which
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Judy Gordon
has become a popular recreation area.
Auxiliary News Editor
....................Mrs. George A. Race
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WITH YOUR O W N RETIREMENT PLAN !"
You undoubtedly are aware of the new law recently passed by Congress
which may allow you to 'establish your ow n Retirement Plan, with resultant
important tax benefits. The Bill becomes effective with the tax year b eginning
January 1, 1963.
If you are contemplating setting up a Retirement Fund and w ish more
information, just call our Trust Department, M A rk e t 7-2131, and one of our
Trust specialists will be glad to talk with you. Or fill in the coupon below and
obtain a booklet describing the Retirement Plan for the Self-Employed. N o
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November Calendar of Meetings
MONDAY
TU E S D A Y
TH U R S D A Y
W EDNESDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
2
3
Pierce Co. Ped.
Soc.— 6:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of St.
C.P.C.—Tacoma
Genera!
8 to 9 a.m.
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Tac. Acad, of Psy.
& Neurol.
8:30 p.m.
Tacoma Ortho.
Soc.— 8:00 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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C.P.C. of St.
C.P.C.—Mt. Vie*
General
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16
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Pierce County
M edical Society
8:15 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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Gen. Hosp.
P. Co. Acad, of
General Practice
6:30 p.m.
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C.P.C. of St. C.P.C.—Mt. View
General
8 to 9 a.m.
Tacoma Surgical
Club— 6:30 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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Tacoma Acad, of
Internal Med.
6 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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At our October meeting, an amendment
to the Constitution of the Pierce County
M edical Society allowing for Provisional
M embership to non-citizen physicians was
passed. These physicians will have their ap
plications individually considered and, if
approved, they will be entitled to all the
privileges and responsibilities of membership
except the right to vote and hold office.
With his application, the non-citizen
physician m ust submit his written intention
of achieving United States citizenship as
quickly as possible. If he becomes a citizen
1 / in the prescribed time, he will automatically
, ?j become an Active member in the Pierce
i - 4 l County M edical Society. If he does not
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achieve citizenship, his Provisional member
ship will be discontinued.
We feel this is a good move because it
53 offers to the non-citizen physician fuller
participation in professional affairs and is a mark of his acceptance
by the local group. It will facilitate the physician’s acceptance in
specialty groups and for Board examinations. The Society benefits
from acquiring strength, unity and increased income; the physician
has increased incentive to become a citizen.
It should be pointed out that Active membership in the Wash
ington State M edical Association is limited to American citizens and,
also, that “the Constitution and By-Law s or any amendment thereto
of a component Society shall not becom e effective until approved by
the Board of Trustees of the W ashington State M edical Association.”
There is little doubt that this amendment will be approved ajt the
next meeting of the Board of Trustees on Novem ber 18, 1962 as some
of the other county societies now have a similar provision in their
Constitutions. It is estimated that we have ten to fifteen non-citizen
physicians practicing in this County. Inasmuch as final adoption of
the amendment will not occur before 11-18-62, first reading of their
membership applications cannot be m ade until the Decem ber meet
ing of the Pierce County M edical Society.
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If you gave a thousand dollars to U G N , don’t expect me to rush
up and shake your hand the next time I see you.
The Chairman In Charge of Hounding the Doctors for Their
U GN Contributions (i.e., m e) can’t congratulate the big givers because
he still doesn’t know who gave what in the cam paign. Governing his
every maneuver was the conviction that no one of us can justly evalu
ate any . other one individual’s degree of obligation in a charity drive
of this sort. If the chairman checked on who contributed, how much,
and who didn’t, it would be inevitable that in some instances he
would be critical of individuals. And if just one person is unjustly
categorized as selfish on the basis of this one criterion— the size of his
gift to U G N — that’s one too many. This is the antithesis of the pro
fessional fund-raiser’s attitude.
Unfortunately, this also leaves the chairman in the dark as to
which ones were especially unselfish and generous. They’ll receive no
special accolade; but then, this is not the reward they sought when
they m ade their gift.
The overall group response was the important thing. That total
response is not known at this writing, but I fee] confident our pro
fession will have done its share, despite the unorthodox approach.
My sincere thanks to each person who gave conscientious considera
tion to determining his own share in the cam paign, regardless of what
his conclusion was.
— S.W.T.
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IN
MEMORIAAA
R o b e r t W h it c o m b B r o v in , M.D.
1901-1962
From the great Harvard Medical
School in Boston— to the world re
nowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester—
and to a remote State Hospital in
Fort Steilacoom, Washington. This in
brief was the route chosen by Doctor
Robert Brown in his search for a medi
cal destiny, a home, and a desire to
serve as a physician. For twenty-three
years he found that destiny, and for
twenty-three years the Western State
Hospital gained a champion for emo
tionally troubled thousands in our
State. W e can easily praise his
knowledge, ability, and skill — but
many others have come and gone hav
ing these same worthy qualities. How
ever in Bob Biown there was some
thing more intangible and precious—
a deep devotion to Western State with
a dogged determination to improve
the care of institutional patients and
the importance of this hospital. To
this purpose he drove himself relent
lessly without regard for time, public
accolade, or personal comfort. His
door was always open to patients and
employees with their hopes, joys, sor
rows and problems. All received a
quiet understanding and a helping
hand. To those of this hospital he will
always be remembered as “Mr. W est
ern State — an honor well earned and
forever revered.
J o h n A. S h e p p a k d , M.D.
Tacoma General Path
Conference Shifted
A recent change in schedule has resulted
in an encouraging boost in attendance at
two of Tacoma s best weekly clinical meet
ings. The Clinical Pathological Conference
that has been held perennially at Tacoma
General Hospital on Thursday mornings
has been transferred to the classroom at
Mountain View General Hospital for three
sessions in each month. Instead of Thurs
day, the session starts at 8:00 a.m. on Sat
urday morning, is conducted in the usual
fashion by the pathology department from
Tacoma General, and is then followed by
the Grand Rounds Conference which fea
tures review of current clinical cases at
Mountain View. Each session is for one
hour. Coffee and doughnuts are served.
Notices are sent out in advance so each
physician will know what is on the pro
gram and also which weeks the CPC will
be at Mountain View and which at Tacoma
General.
New or Used Crutches
Needed By T-PCBARF
The Tacoma-Pierce County Branch of the
Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation, a
UGN agency, is issuing an appeal for new
or used equipment such as wheelchairs,
walkers, crutches, or other self-help devices
which can be used by those suffering from
the many ardîtic diseases.
This equipment will be placed in a Loan
Closet where patients, upon the referral of
their physician, may obtain tliis equipment
on a loan basis without charge.
The equipment which you are no longer
using can help a needy arthritic patient.
Call the Tacoma-Pierce County Branch of
the Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation
and arrangements will be made to pick up
your donations.
The Tacoma Branch of the Foundation
would also like to remind the members of
the Medical Society that Butazolidin is dis
tributed without charge to needy patients,
which includes not only those on the wel
fare program but those with marginal in
comes as well. These patients may receive
this medicine at the Mountain View Gen
eral Hospital Drug Room upon presentation
of a prescription issued by their physician.
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G. P/s Prepare For
Pediatric Symposium
A one-day pediatric symposium will be
presented by the Pierce County Academy
of General Practice at the Doric Motor
Hotel in Tacoma on Saturday, December S.
Dr. James M. Blankenship, President of the
organization, will open the meeting at 9
a.m. and a full day of scientific papers will
follow.
Featured guest speakers will be Dean K.
Crystal, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular
Surgery at the Children’s Orthopedic Hos
pital in Seattle, who will speak on “Cardiac
Murmurs in Children from the Surgeon’s
Standpoint", and Donald E. Pickering,
M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical School, whose
subject will be “Modern Analysis of
Growth and Development.” Dr. Crystal’s
paper will be discussed by Dr. Clinton A.
Piper of Tacoma.
Local physicians presenting papers will
be John M. Shaw, “Confusing Rashes on
Relatives’; David T. Hellver, “The Hvpo-
tonic Child”; Robert M. Freeman, “Those
Shocking Ions”; and Robert W. Osborne
and Kenneth E. Gross, “Enuresis May Be
Serious.” At the evening banquet, Dr. Jerman W. Rose of Tacoma will speak on
“Normal and Deviant Personality Develop
ment in Children.”
Seven hours AAGP credit in category 1
will be granted. The registration fee of
$7.50 will include the social hour and
banquet.
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sume these luscious things and still close
..................................................... -M r s . H erm un S. Ju d d
President
your mind to the facts about calories con
P resid en t-E lect_____________________
M rs. Philip G renley
1st V ice-P resid en t_________
...M r s . R ob ert W . O sborne
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2nd V ice-P resid en t-.................................. M rs. D udley W . Houty.
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3rd V ice-P resid en t........................................ M rs. L e o F . Sulkosky
4th V ice-President .............................
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M rs. M . J . women
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have already sold a number of
Recording Secretary _____ ___________. M rs. R o b ert P . C rabill
M rs. J a c k M andeville
dozen. Why not call Ruth Murphy or Janet
M rs. H askel L . M aier
Treasurer .............. ...........................
O’Connell and arrange to pick up some for
M rs. G lenn H . B rokaw
Assistant T reasurer ....................
American M edical E d u catio n
yourself?
-______M rs. G alen H . H o o ver
Foundation ___
National Bulletin
............................... M rs. R ob ert A. Kallsen
So nice to see the group from Puyallup.
Civil Defense and S a f e ty
M rs. T h om as H . Skrinar
H istorian ................. - ...............
M rs. H erb ert C . K ennedy
Do come again soon.
Legislative..___________
.M rs. G eorge C. G ilm an and
Faith Home has asked our help in find
Membership ......
... M rs. R o bert C . Jo hnson and
M rs. M yron A . B ass
ing some tables for their use. Specifically,
Param edical ______________
M rs. L e o n a rd
M orley
they need end tables, coffee table, tables
P ro gram
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- ............ - .......... M rs. Joseph B . H arris
Publicity.................................................................. M rs. G o v n or T eats
suitable for a dining room, and work tables.
Bulletin__________________________________ M rs. G eorge A . R a c e
....................... M rs. K enneth E . Gross
RevisionsIf you have a table you think they could
M rs. Jam es L . V adheim
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use, would you call the Home and discuss
------------------------M rs. Jo h n J . B on ica
Speakers B ureau .
..................M rs. Stanley W . Tuell
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the size, shape and use with a staff mem
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M rs. F ra n k J . Rigos and
ber? They will arrange the details of
M rs. W a y n e W . Z im m erm an
pick-up.
C o u n cil__________ ___
M rs. E lm e r W . W ah lb erg
H eart
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................... M rs. H . A . A nderson
Early in October, several board members
Cancer .
„— ......— M rs. J . R o b ert Brooke
Finance
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met at Jeanne Judd’s home to meet and
D ance
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M rs. A rnold J . H errm an n and
welcome new members. New Auxiliary
Mrs. W illiam R ad em ak er
Fashion Show __
M rs. T h om as O. M urphy and
members present were: Kit Larson, Wanda
M rs. W illiam W . M attson, Jr.
Mental H ealth _
............................M rs. Jo hn M. H av lin a
Rose, Margaret Voynow, Jo Ann Johnson,
Today's H ealth .
....................... M rs. B ern ard A. Row en
and Gerry Reynolds. It was a comfortable,
Cook B o o k ......
Mrs. T h om as B . M urphy and
M rs. R o b ert A. O ’C onnell
friendly meeting with the discussion finally
coming to, of all things, dogs. Seems Gerry’s
daughter had brought home an Afghan
The opening meeting of the Auxiliary whose favorite resting spot is always where
was a warm, friendly affair. Eighty mem Gerry happens to be working. And Dorothv
bers gathered at Lorraine Kunz’s home for Grenley was gifted with an Italian grey
a delicious lunch and an afternoon of mix hound—small, beautiful and neurotic— and
ing and meeting. Guests for the luncheon making life unhappy for the family Doxy.
were the four student nurses who are re Already devoted to Dorothy, the hound
cipients of our nursing scholarships. Presi makes like one when the car leaves with
dent Jeanne Judd conducted a short busi out her.
ness meeting and then introduced Dona
Gilman who discussed at length the initia
tives and referendums to be voted on at
the November election. Our thanks to Dona
because she cleared the air for us on sev
NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION
eral of the issues and was well-prepared in
her subject matter.
There was considerable business con
ducted by Elvina Brokaw (dues), Ruth
Murphy (cook books), and Billie Murphy
(style show tickets).
o ffe rin g m o d ern sp ace fo r m ed ical
Have you seen the cook books? Our com
su ite s in fa s t g ro w in g re sid e n tia l area.
mittee is to be congratulated on a fine
P h o n e TE 3 - 1 6 8 9
product. There is a clever Rx blank cover,
a page on “Cans and Sizes” and a complete
AUBURN
herb chart, plus pages of interesting recipes.
After a look through the dessert section,
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CONVENTION NEWS . . .
Nadine and Herb Kennedy, Evelyn and
Bob Osborne were in Yakima November 3
for the annual meeting of the Northwest
Urological Association. Same night as
“Symphoneve”—worse luck!
Mary and John Steele, Peggy and George
Race spent the first weekend of November
in Vancouver, B.C., at the annual meeting
of the Northwest Chest Physicians and
Surgeons.
Just returned from a two-month trip to
Vienna, Austria, and Montreal, Canada, are
Emma and John Bonica.
Clyde Gray has done it again! He and
Florence have just returned from another
moose hunt on the Stuart River, 100 miles
out of Prince George. Clyde got his
moose!!! He got one last year also. (Inci
dentally, Florence got her moose this year
—her first.) Retirement is no problem for
Clyde who fishes, plays golf once a week,
works in the garden and as a member of
the American Contract Bridge Club, plays
duplicate two or three times a week. It
keeps Florence’s tongue hanging out as she
tries to keep up with him.
“Fashion Takes a Holiday” was a sell-out
with the SRO sign going up long before
the event took place. Mrs. Terese Gardner,
fashion show moderator for Lou Johnson,
did the commentary as members of the
Auxiliary showed us the new fashions for
fall and winter. Joan Anderson, Bev Harrelson, Ruth Murphy, Sheila Dimant, Billie
Murphy, Marge Wicks, Bianca Mattson,
Chris Kanar, Kit Larson and Muriel Nelson
modeled the latest in sports wear, sweaters,
suits, coats and evening wear. Hazel Whitacre modeled a white mohair hand-knit
coat which was won by the lucky guest.
Thanks to Lou Johnson for putting on the
show and for the perfume favors. And to the
committees for their work in making this a
successful effort.
In preparation for the November meet
ing, Mrs. Judd will have a Board meeting
m the Pierce County Medical Library,
Medical Arts Building, Friday, November
ten o’clock. Coffee will be served.
The November meeting is scheduled for
the 16th at the home of Ruth Murphy, 803
stadium Way. Chairmen are Joan Ander
son and Hazel Whitacre, assisted by Judy
oass, Hilda Lantiere and Becky Banfield.
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H O SPITALS
Saint Joseph's
Central Supply
Just two more months until Christmas
and our card supply is slowly dwindling.
Our three top sellers are now sold out but
a vast selection still remains. We would
love to see your smiling, youthful faces over
our counter; so, why not come and buy?
Some new faces have been seen in our
department—Nancy Newton, Jean High,
and Dorothy White. A little patience may
be needed with them until they learn the
up’s and down’s of CSR.
You all remember Therisia Hinton. She
is now in New York staying with her sister
while her husband is serving thirteen
months in Korea. We have received several
letters from her and everything is all right.
She wants us to say hello to everyone at
St. Joseph’s.
Surgery
We wish to extend a welcome to Mrs.
Shirley Godbow, an O.R. nurse, who joined
our staff from Good Samaritan Hospital in
Pordand, Oregon.
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Dr. Niani is also back with us—his home
is in Iran. We hope he will stay here at
St. Joseph’s.
The surgery crew is anxiously awaiting
the completion of warming cupboards be
tween the surgeries which will be used for
our solutions. They will certainly be very
useful and convenient.
Isn’t it wonderful that the entire hospital
was able to benefit through the use of the
newly installed emergency generator dur
ing the recent wind storm? Power shortage
in a hospital could be quite disasterous
without one!
We are also very happy that two new'
graduates have chosen surgery as their
field: Miss Lois Bigger and Miss Donna
Dugger. Good luck to them in their State
Board Examinations, October 17 and 18!
An item of interest: The Operating
Room Nurses’ Association is in the pro
cess of selling different varieties of delicious
candies for the holidays. Many of you have
already seen and ordered some. We have
re-ordered for the benefit of any personnel
who wish to purchase some.
A Turco-Party is planned for November
19th at 8 p.m. and will .be sponsored by
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District No. 3, W.S.N.A. It will be held at
Jackson Hall in the recreation room.
Twenty turkeys and door prizes will be
given.
School of Nursing
On October 2, 1962, a talent show was
presented to the Sisters and students of the
St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing by
the pre-clinicals.
With a background of excellent talent,
the pre-clinicals presented “The Jay Street
Thirty-nine Flavors.” Talent ranged from
dramatic readings to entertaining songs of
thirty-seven girls and two boys which
totaled the pre-clinicals’ thirty-nine flavors.
Among the entertainment for the evening
was a humorous reading of two young girls’
trip abroad from Cornelia Otis Skinner and
Emily Kimbrough’s, “Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay”. This scene was done in
excellent taste by Kathy Dunn and Joan
English. Sarah Doherty sang “Danny Boy”
in her pure Irish lilt. A comedy pantomime
of “Feeding Pigeons in Wright’s Park”,
was done by Joy Axelson, Janice Hamre,
and Gloria Berghoff.
There was so much talent that the preclinicals were quite amazed and pleasantly
surprised at tiieir own flare for dramatic
arts.
After a four-week vacation and one week
of interim, the seniors have returned to
begin their last year of education at St.
Joseph’s. To some this means meeting a
new instructor, Mrs. Lee, and learning all
about fractures, casts, and traction. To
others it means entering the world of
scrub gowns and instruments. To three sen
iors it means living at American Lake and
completing their last affiliation, psychiatry.
To all of them it means meeting the new
pre-clinicals, receiving senior pins, and get
ting into the groove of study again!
Meanwhile, the junior class, after many
weeks of hard work and study, are looking
forward to a week of interim for that muchdeserved and much-needed rest.
Everything seems to be in order for
another busy year in the School of Nursing.
Everybody is busy orienting new students
to their new life of study.
This year a new committee, the “Joint
Committee— Nursing Education and Nurs
ing Service”, has been formed in order to
promote harmonious functional relationship
between Nursing Education and Nursing
Service.
The school is very happy to have our
faithful Thelma back on the job again. She
always adds a sparkle to the halls and
building.
Pediatric News
After thirteen years of faithful service,
Mrs. Evanson, L.P.N., 11-7, is retiring from
nursing. Warm wishes follow her always.
Mrs. Brown, R.N., 11-7, held open house
for the staff in honor of Mrs. Evanson. It
turned out to be a combination farewell
party and reunion. Lou Hendricks and her
new son, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Zurfluh, and
Mrs. Norman, Mary Bricker, and Marie
Renggli, all past members of the staff at
tended. Thank you, Mrs. Brown for the
enjoyable party!
Thanks also go to Mrs. Williams and
Mrs. Colbo, who were co-hostesses for the
personal bridal shower given for Miss
Christy before she left for New Jersey.
Congratulations are in order for Judy
Smith, L.P.N., and Jim Snell. They were
married on September 13. Judy is leaving
us to set up housekeeping in Pullman,
Washington, the end of October.
We are happy to welcome two new mem
bers of our staff— Mrs. Shaw, 7-3, and 3-11,
and Mrs. Carlson, 11-7.
Medical Records
Sister Emmanuel enjoyed the convention
in St. Louis very much. She won a clock
radio, as a door prize. During our recent
bi-monthly meeting, she told us some of the
interesting highlights of the trip.
The students and personnel of the de
partment attended the meetings at the Winthrop Hotel on October 18. The forenoon
" as spent at the Washington State Hospital
Association meeting. During the luncheon,
Dr. Malden talked about his experiences
working in a government-controlled medi
cal program. In the afternoon the Wash
ington State Association of Medical Record
Librarians held its annual meeting. Here
we met people from all over the state work
ing in our same field.
The work is going on as usual and the
students are learning the work by experi
ence. Dr. Rohner is now teaching the
anatomy class, filling Dr. Greissinger’s
vacancy.
W e have informally celebrated three
birthdays this last month— those of Ruth
Delle, Mrs. Magnusson, and Lauretta
Schmidt.
“Food” For Thought From
The Dietary Department
Our dietary office has taken on a very
new look. W e have added a third desk, and
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it is occupied by Miss Sylvia Thomason.
Her former home was Elma, Washington.
She graduated from Washington State Uni
versity' in Institutional Economics. Miss
Thomason took her internship at Good
Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. We
are very happy indeed to welcome her to
our Dietary Department.
From the Main Kitchen, Mrs. Rose Remeto, our vegetable cook for many years,
plans to take semi-retirement starting
November 1. However, she will return two
days a week. Good luck Rosy, hope you
enjoy your semi-retirement.
The storm of Friday, October 12th, did
damage estimated at $500 to Caroline
Brown’s almost new trailer home. She is
the stenographer for the Dietary Depart
ment. We are so sorry!
Recendy published in our local news
paper was an article written by Mrs. Elvera
Herell, Oregon State University Extension
Agricultural Economist. In her research
she has found that folks are eating less to
day than in 1940. The consumption of food
has gone different ways, for example:
1940: The nation ate 144 pounds of meat
per person; including fish and poultry, com
pared to 179 pounds of meat produces in
1960.
Processed vegetables and fruits are used
more than the fresh form of vegetables and
fruit.
Each person on the average uses 10 per
cent more milk and 5 per cent more eggs
now.
Each Ameircan eats about 50 pounds less
of flour and cereal products. The consump
tion for coffee, tea, sugar, and syrup is
about the same.
Incomes in the past 20 years have grown
faster than food bills. Total food expendi
tures per person in 1940 climbed from
$126 per person to $392, with per capita
disposable income increasing from $576 to
$1,987 in the same time. This means that
Americans spent less than 20 per cent of
their disposable income for food in 1961
compared with 22 per cent in 1940.
to sergeant. Sorry to see you leave Mrs.
McGuire, but it’s nice to have had you
here.
Mrs. Esche, R.N. and Martha Brown,
R.N., both have been off a few days because
of illness. Mrs. Esche has a bad knee. It
will be nice to see them both back on the
job.
Mrs. Magnusson is a grandmother again.
Gregg La Mar was born in Anchorage,
Alaska.
That’s the news from third for now.
The addition of Doctor Gordon Dean
and Doctor Robert Voynow to die Anes
thesia Staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Ta
coma, makes possible a twenty-four hour
anesthesia service which includes the ma
ternity department. Doctor Dean, one of
our former interns, returns to us from Red
ding, California. Doctor Voynow hails from
Virginia Mason in Seattle.
The Staff of St. Joseph Hospital and the
faculty of the School of Nursing extend
their appreciation to the Pierce County
Medical Society, who has recently awarded
a sum of S900.00 to St. Joseph School of
Nursing to be used as scholarship fund.
Good Samaritan
Physical therapy is now available on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings
and Saturday mornings to out-patients at
Good Samaritan. This new service is prov
ing highly popular with patients who pre
fer to avoid interference with their regular
working hours or where transportation dur
ing the day is a problem.
Albert Van Etten, R.P.T., Chief Therapist
for the past eight years, is now being as
sisted by William Hammond, R.P.T., who
completed his graduate work in physical
therapy at the University of Iowa in 1959.
Mr. Hammond, a 1st Lieutenant in the
Army Medical Specialist Corps, is stationed
at Madigan Hospital. Prior to his present
assignment, Mr. Hammond worked for 2 V2
years at Fitzsimmons Hospital in Denver.
Minutes from Third
All ahead on our 3rd South Medicine
Room. Harriett Buscko, R.N., is getting it in
shape, even with some frills. We will have
an opening day soon.
One of our favorite aides just got mar
ried. Mrs. LaBounty is now Mrs. Jack
Cook. Congratulations to you both.
Mrs. McGuire, R.N., will be leaving us
soon. Her husband received a promotion
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“Misery of Orient",
Peneyra's Report
From Philippines
The following letter was received by
Mrs. MacIntyre, operating room supervisor
at Mountain View General Hospital, and is
of interest to all who remember the Peneyra’s. Jamie and Lily served tours of duty as
interns and residents at both Tacoma Gen
eral Hospital and Mountain View, but had
to return to die Philippines under the
immigration laws.
Editor.
Dear Mac. and all,
It has seemed ages since we left, hasn’t
it? We had a most wonderful time on our
trip, we must have been too preoccupied
enjoying ourselves, correspondence then
was out of our minds. Now that we are
gradually resettling ourselves, there is, of
course, more time for various tilings to do.
So—here we are again, deep in the
jungles of home. This is Jamie’s hometown.
We decided against city- life, for, having
been used to the spaciousness of Tacoma,
the confusion, heat, dust, and crowd of the
city7 is much too much for our slow con
ditioned reflexes. We miss you all, natural
ly; we miss everything of the U.S. too. Our
life here is a far cry from what we had
used ourselves to in the States. From the
heavens of America, we are along a grad
ual descent into the earth of the Philippines
— or better still, into living purgatory, as I
term it.
Today is a hot humid day. As I’m writing
this, I’m on a rocking bed underneath a big
shady tree. It sounds inviting, doesn’t it?
Don’t let me deceive you, for it really isn’t
so. There is mud, stagnant water on my
right, dirt all over, and flies, mosquitoes,
and ants hovering around waiting for their
prey. Boy, oh boy, to think that in a matter
of weeks, one can change environments so
drastically as this. I would have done bet
ter joining Tom Dooley’s troupe, wouldn’t
I? Oh well, at times when disgust over
comes me, I just imagine myself in the
deserts of Nevada. Is any one there from
Nevada? (Las Vegas and Reno excluded,
of course.) Sorry!!!
Jamie and I have started our practice
these past two weeks. For awhile, we have
abandoned our special knowledges to get
back into general practice. This is our only
way to get patients as of now, although
we hope to eventually confine ourselves
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into the specialties. Patients come in
trickles, we can only remain optimistic. I
am afraid our hopes to revisit the U.S. in
5-10 years grow dimmer. Jamie and I are
much too soft-hearted to squeeze even
moderate fees out of the poor patients’
pockets. I have not realized in post war
times, what poverty is until I have seen the
patients coming from the farms. One father
for instance, had to borrow cash to bring
in from a very remote village, a child with
full blown pneumonia. Knowing so, "'hat
heart could one have to bill him. This is the
reason why I ’ve told Jamie for us to quit as
soon as we can or we shall be just as poor
as our patients. Before your hearts grow
heavy with pity for the misery typical of
the Orient, let me change the topic.
How are things in Mt. View Hosp.? and
in Glacomorra? Any more weddings? How
are the newlyweds? Still in heaven or down
to earth? Please tell Dr. O’Keefe my re
gional anesthetic touch is getting rusty.
There is a recently opened small clinic in
this community which, unfortunately for
us, is not equipped for even minor opera
tions. It will probably take some time to
equip it adequately as prices are unbeliev
ably sky-high. Should you ever throw- some
left-overs, old instruments, samples, or any
thing medical, please throw them this way.
Tell Mr. Patterson I have my eye on the
small anesthesia machine used in the 3rd
room. OK? And oh, Mac, please don’t put
in the garbage those antiquated masks,
endo-tubes, etc., etc. Please put them in our
big garbage here, instead! Please keep in
mind that anything antiquated or unusable
in the States would still serve a lifetime
here in the Philippines. Goodness, I’ve
sounded like CARE, haven’t I. Well, my
heart is with CARE, but my pocket is
Welfare. Remember our welfare patients
there? Now I belong to the society. Until
then—so long. Our warm regards go to all.
We miss you.
J a m i e a n d L il y
Lilia M. Pencyra, M.D.
Guimba, Nueva Ecija,
Philippines.
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DISASTER
ASSIGNMENTS
In case of a disaster in or near Pierce County, doctors are asked to report
to hospitals unless they are needed and specifically asked to go to the scene
of the emergency.
Following is a list of assignments to hospitals; th e d o cto r n am ed at the head
o f ea ch list w ill serve as that hospital’s co-ordinator. If a disaster occurs when
you are in or very near to a hospital other than your assigned, disregard this
listing. Doctors should use their own discretion from radio reports as to what
constitutes a disaster.
TACOMA GENERAL
Alger
Backup
Bogue
Bond
Bonica
Boudwin
Brokaw
Cameron
Dim ant
Ellis
Fairboum
Freem an
Goering
Hosie
L . ANNEST
Houtz
Huff
Johnson, D.
Kennedy
Klein
Kohl
Kunz
Kyle
Lantz
Light
May, J.
Moosey
Nelson
Peterson
Rademaker
Read
Rigos
Saines
Schwind
Spaulding
Teats
Thomas, D.
Thomas, M.
Truckey
Vadheim
Van Dooren
W hitacre
Wicks
SAINT JOSEPH'S
Adams
Avery
Bader
Baskin
Bass
Brooke
Clay
Comfort
Davis
Durkin
Eltrieh
Florence
Flynn
Galbraith
Graham, D.
R. B U R T
Grenley
Guilfoil
Harris
Hauser
Havlina
Heaton
Hennings
Hinrichs
Hunt
Johnston
Kahler
Kanar
Larkin
Lasby
Ludwig
Mandeville
Martin
MeNerthney
McPhea
O ’Connell
O ’Leary
Pratt
Race
Rohner
Smeall
Vimont
Wahlberg
West
MOUNTAIN VIEW
Allison, D.
Arnold
Banfield
Barronian
Batey
Betteridge
Bias
Bondo
Brachvogel
Buttorff
Chambers
Doherty
Dye
C. K EM P
Ekman
Geissler
Herrmann, S.
Hoover
Islam
Johnson, M.
Johnson, Robt.
Lane
Larson, C.
Lueken
Lundvick
Maddison
Maki
Marlatt
Niethammer
Osbome
Paine
Parrott, G.
Robertson
Rosenbladt
Rowen
Smith, W.
Sobba
Sparling
Sullivan
Tuell
Zimmerman
MEDICAL ARTS
Anderson, H.
Colley
Dietrich
Dille
Eylander
Ferguson
Hanson
K. GRAHAM
Herrmann, A.
Jones
Lambing
Lantiere
Larson, V.
McPhail
Murray
Parrott, M.
Reberger
Ritchie
Stuen
Willard
W right
DOCTORS
Benson
Blankenship
Bowen
Brown, B.
Brown, R.
Deming
Duerfeldt
Gibson
A. W IC K STR O M
Gilman
Harrington
Judd
Kallsen
Kass
Larsen, M.
Lee
Maier
Malden
Mattson
McBride
Reberger
Reynolds
Schultz
Sleep
Smith, P.
Smith, T.
Staatz, K.
MARY BRIDGE
Bischoff
Brigham
Camp
Griffin
Gross
Hazelrigg
Hess
Hopkins, D.
D . H ELLYER
Hori
Kittredge
Magnussen
Marshall
McNutt
Murphy, T.
Norton
Pelley
Piper
Sever
Shaw
Staatz, D.
Tanbara
Williams
NORTHERN PACIFIC
E . ANDERSON
Larson, C.
May, C.
Muir
Nace
Randolph
Cummings
Erickson
Gullikson
Hoskins
Kohler
Skrinar
Stevens
Todd
Ward
GOOD SAMARITAN
L . SULKOSKY
Jarvis
Johansson
Kalkus
Kanda
Kase
Kemman
Lindstrom
Blizard
Burrows
Clark
Denzler
Duffy
Gerstmann
Granquist
Hoyt
McCabe
McKay
Murphy, V.
Nevitt
Scheyer
Sturdevant
Vaught
LAKEWOOD GENERAL
Brown, W.
Colen
Crabill
Dm cker
E arly
E hrlich
G ay-Balmaz
Godfrey
Hoyer
Irvin
R. M cC R E A L
James
Morley
Johnson, Ralph Ootkin
Larson, C.
Rich
Lawley
Rose
Lawrence
Skinner
Liew er
Thordarson
Maire
Vozenilek, M.
Meier
Vozenilek, Z.
Morain
Walloch
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At U. of Washington
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In 1960, Dr. Rob left his native England
and his position as Professor of Surgery at
the University of London to accept his pres
ent appointment as Professor and Chairman
of the Department of Surgery, University of
Rochester School of Medicine, New York.
He is a member of the American Surgical
Association, The Society of University Sur
geons, and the Society for Vascular Sur
gery. He has written two textbooks: “Oper
ative Surgery”, published in 1958; and
“Vascular Surgery”, 1962 (in print). He is
on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of
Cardiovascular Surgery and the Journal of
Cardiovascular Surgery and the Journal of
Surgical Research.
Grasshopper Pie!!!
Eight Doctors Star
In New Cook Book
D r . C h a r l e s G. R ob
A distinguished, internationally known
surgeon, Dr. Charles G. Rob, will be the
guest speaker at the Thirteenth Annual
Alfred A. Strauss Lecture to take place on
Nov. 30, 1962, at 8:15 p.m. in the Health
Science Auditorium at the University of
Washington, School of Medicine. The event
is sponsored by Dr. Strauss and the De
partment of Surgery, and all interested
members of the medical and nursing pro
fessions are invited to attend.
Dr. Rob is widely known for his achieve
ments in blood vessel grafting and is em
inently qualified to speak on the subject,
“The Surgery of Atherosclerosis.” Dr. Rob
is a native of England and received his
Masters Degree in Surgery in 1941 and his
M.D. degree in 1960, both at the University
of Cambridge. His brilliant medical work
while with the Royal Army Medical Corps
during World War II earned him the Mili
tary Cross. Since then, numerous honorary
titles and honors have been bestowed on
him from all parts of the world. He was
Hunterian Professor of the Royal College
of Surgeons in 1946, Honorary Fellow of the
Venezuelan Surgical Society in 1956, Guest
Surgeon, Australian and New Zealand PostGraduate Federation in 1952, and he was
guest speaker at the 27th Congress of
Soviet Surgeons in Moscow, Russia, in
1960, as well as numerous other awards
and honors.
They’re not exactly scientific papers, but
some literary gems by eight Tacoma doc
tors were recorded for posterity in Sep
tember when that outstanding “medical”
publication, The Pierce County Medical
Auxiliary Cook Book, came off the press.
The book is not only loaded with recipes by
doctors’ wives, but contains numerous
favorite cooking secrets of such frustrated
chefs as Bob Brooke, who tells how he
barbecues spareribs and concocts steak
sauce, and Jim Hazelrigg, who reveals his
formula for “Creole Beans.” Some recipes
require rather elaborate preparation—like
Clyde Gray’s recipe for “Moose Loaf” ( you
have to go shoot a moose first). The book
includes the important note that Clyde
shot one in 1961. Not having gained fame
for something like a McBurney’s Point or
Peyronie’s Disease, Clyde makes his bid for
immortality with “Gray’s Fried Prawns.”
( I t’s all there, right in the book!)
The doctor who contributed most recipes
to the book is one whose spouse is not a
member of the auxiliary. That’s Dr. Guilfoil. Erna gets quite ecstatic over stuff like
Fire and Ice Tomatoes, Wild Dove and
Mushroom Casserole, Bean Salad, Prune
Pie, and Grasshopper Pie (U gh!).
Somewhat more prosaic are titles of some
other doctors’ contributions. T. B. Murphy
reveals his recipe for Chocolate Fudge,
Dave Dye expounds on Butterscotch Candy,
and Miles Parrott tells all about Almond
Roca (not a word from Haley). Mike Irvin
tells how to make Crisp Waffles.
Some wives respectfully named their
concoctions after their husbands. For ex
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P ie h c e C o u n ty M e d ic a l S o c ie ty
ample, Lorna Burt calls hers “Bob’s Barbe
cued Beefburgers”. In the same vein, Bea
Kalkus and Marge Wicks call their “Lemon
Squares.” (G et it, fellahs?)
The G rade Hansen influence shows up
in Dottie Read’s recipe title of “Western
Potato Strip-Teasers”, but she bashfully
gives credit elsewhere with the sub-title
( “Jess’s’ Method of Preparing Potatoes and
Vegetables for Barbecuing”. (T he first tide
should sell better.)
If you thumb through tiiis book, you get
some idea of what you might get if you
drop into some of your colleagues’ homes
at mealtime. For example, over at Barronian’s you might find yourself chomping on
some “Dolma” (that’s stuffed grape leaves,
stupid). At Kallsen’s house, you can sip
on “Salmon Soup” ( Campbell’s hasn’t even
thought of this one yet). At Everett Nel
son’s, you can roll down a few handfuls of
“Appetizer Balls”, or you can drop over
to Delaney’s and juggle down some “Radi
ant Tipsy Balls” (1/3 cup of whiskey pro
vides the tipsy). Judd’s might be having
“Diggity Bars” this evening and Smeall’s
might serve “Barbie’s Boomerang’s” ( sounds
like something you eat now and taste later).
Bowen’s will serve up a lucious slice of
“Onion Pie” (it’ll probably boomerang,
Taeom a B ra c e
& L im b Co.
too). And, if you’re feeling especially sen
timental, drop over to Sobba’s and fill up
on “Melting Moments”. (Honestly, you eat
i t ! ) They’re not quite so subtle over at
Yoachim’s — their favorite food is titled
“Dessert”. The recipe Stephanie Tuell sent
in was rejected; it was called “Nalley’s
Beef Stew.”
A recipe with a really shameful title was
submitted by Gwen Hosie; it’s called
“Democrat Pudding”. Another one that
somehow got by the censors is “Mrs. Tru
man’s Ozark Pudding”. The contributor is
un-named, but chances are it wasn’t Ruth
Zimmerman or Bea Kalkus.
Seriously, men, this cook book is a beau
tifully prepared collection of interesting re
cipes and it would be a real expression of
gratitude to our faithful auxiliary members
if each doctor would present one of these to
his office nurse for Thanksgiving or Christ
mas. The price for this collection of gems
is three dollars. If your nurse has been
reading your pharmaceutical mail lately,
she’s probably on a low-cholesterol jag and
will hardly be able to wait to get home to
bake a cake according to the recipe con
tributed by Bev Harrelson. It’s called
“Eggless - Milkless - Butterless Cake”. It’s
probably tasteless, too, but what a con
versation piece!
And if your nurse doesn’t cook, she can
always read the little bits of wisdom that
are used for fillers in the book—like “Cold
tea makes an excellent house plant fertili
zer— try it on your plants.” That’s in the
salad section.
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First Year at Faith Home
In the first year of its operation a size
able number of girls have come to Faith
Home on direct referral from their doctors.
Others have been referred by their doctors
to adoption or maternity care agencies and
thence to the Home. This maternity home,
located at 5210 South State Street, Tacoma,
has admitted seventy-five unmarried moth
ers since it first opened in mid-November,
1961. The program offers prenatal care at
the Home clinic and delivery at a local
hospital. Girls are referred to the offices of
local physicians or dentists for other medi
cal or dental care. Myron A. Bass, M.D., is
the coordinator of medical services. Doug
las P. Buttorff, M.D. and James E. McNerthney, M.D., are working with him on
a team basis. A second team consisting of
Harold D. Lueken, M.D., Fay M. Nace,
M.D. and Thomas B. Lawley, M.D., will
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be added very soon to care for the in
creased population.
Starting slowly with ten girls admitted at
first, the population has now climbed to an
average of ,23. At the present rate the li
censed capacity of thirty-three will be at
tained soon. Girls are admitted at any stage
of their pregnancy but early admission ( by
fifth montii) is encouraged so that the girl
can benefit from the full effect of the
program.
Faith Home has planned its services pri
marily for the adolescent girl, so there is
school under a teacher supplied by the
Tacoma School District. Junior and senior
high school subjects, with the exception of
laboratory sciences and foreign languages,
are offered and all credits are issued
through a local junior or senior high to
preserve confidentiality. Last spring one
girl at the Home received her diploma from
her own high school, and three others were
graduated from their own schools thanks to
credits earned while at Faith Home earlier
in the year.
Other aspects of the Home program in
clude the residence which is under the
supervision of a housemother who assigns
regular housekeeping chores to all girls and
helps plan leisure time activities. Casework
service for every girl and for parents on a
selective basis is provided by two graduate
trained caseworkers. The focus in this part
of the treatment program is to assist girls
and their parents in understanding the
problems which have led to the illegitimate
pregnancy, and in solving these problems
in a construtcive way. Rehabilitation means
increased maturity and greater ability to
live a happy, successful adult life.
The chaplain or a minister of the girl’s
own faith is available for religious coun
seling. Volunteers from the community
teach arts and crafts or help with special
needs.
Most of the girls enter with the plan of
relinquishing their baby for adoption. Ar
rangements are made with ony one of the
several adoption agencies to accomplish
this, and the baby is removed directly from
the hospital to the agency’s boarding home.
For the few girls who decide to keep their
babies, individual plans are worked out to
provide as much protection for both
mother and child as is possible.
Families usually pay for their daughter’s
care and fees are arranged on the basis of
ability to pay. In approximately one-quarter
of the cases the father of the expected child
( or his parents) have paid something
toward the costs of care. For families with
very limited income, funds are available
from the department of public assistance.
In order to accept girls at reduced rates
contributions are solicited from the public
and from groups or organizations with a
special interest in this program.
Faith Home is an institution of the
Episcopal Church; however, its services are
available to girls and young women of any
race, religion or place of residence.
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Second Monday of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 7:30 p.m.
Second Monday of each month— noon.
Last Monday of February, June, September and November
Second Tuesday of the month except June, July and August
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First Tuesday of March, June, Sept., Dec.— 6:30 p.m.
Third Tuesday of each month— 6:30 p.m. at Tacoma Club
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PIERCE COUNTY M ED ICAL SOCIETY
BULLETIN
VOL XXXIII— No. 12
TACOMA, WASH.
DECEMBER - 1962
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V ic e -P r e s id e n t. . ...............................................F r e d e r ic k J . S ch w in d
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Jo h n S h aw
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G e o rg e C . K ittre d g e
C h ris C . R ey n o ld s
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G . M . W h ita c r e
G e o rg e S . K ittre d g e
W a y n e W . Z im m e rm a n
DAVID S. HOPKINS
CHARLES C. R EBER G ER
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R o b e rt W . F lo r e n c e
G len n H . B ro k aw
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F r a n k R . M ad d iso n
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G r ie v a n c e
C h ris C . R ey n o ld s, C h a irm a n
J . W . B ow en, Jr.
C . B . R itch ie
P ro g ram
C h a rle s J . G a lb ra ith , C h a irm a n
D ale D o h e rty
O rv is A . H arrelso n
K en n eth E . G ro ss, C h a irm a n
R o b e rt M . F e r g u s o n ’
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L ib r a r y
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C lin to n A . P ip e r
R o b ert E . L a n e
P u b lic H e a lth
G e o rg e A . T a n b a r a , C h a irm a n
R o b e r t C . Jo h n so n
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H o u se a n d A tte n d a n c e
G alen H . H o o v e r, C h a irm a n
R o b e rt C . Jo h n so n
G len n H . B ro k aw
C iv il D is a s te r
T . R . H a le y , C h a irm a n
D a v id T . H e lly e r
E . R. A n d erso n
L e o A n n est
M ax B ra c h v o g e l
L e o F . Sulkosky
R o b ert R . B u rt
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Jo h n R . A lg er
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Ja m e s E . H a z e lr ig g
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S ch oo ls
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R o b e rt C . Jo h n so n
H ask el L . M aier
Jo h n M . K anda
R . A . N o rto n
M . E . L aw ren ce
M y ron K ass, C h a irm a n
M . R . S tu en
H a rla n P . M cN u tt
T ra ffic a n d S a fe ty
L . S tan ley D u rk in , C h a irm a n
R o b e rt M . C h am b ers
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FRIDAY
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Tac. Acad, of Psy.
& Neurol.
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Pierce Co. Ped.
Soc.— 6 :0 0 p.m.
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C.P.C. of St.
Tacoma Ortho.
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Stall of Doctors
Hosp.— 7 :.30 p.m.
Staff of Good
Samaritan—
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Staff of Northern
Pacific— Noon
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12
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General
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15
PCM B Board
8 p.m.
11
Pierce County
M edical Society
8 :1 5 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
C.P.C. of St.
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20
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24
C.P.C. of St.
26
25
21
Staff of Medical
Arts— 7 : 1 5 a.m.
Tacoma Surgical
Staff of St. Joseph’s Club— 6 :3 0 p.m.
6 :1 5 p.m.
C.P.C. of Mary
Bridge— 8 a.m.
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8 to 9 a.m.
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President's Page
In the past year m y job has been made
easier by the splendid work done by key com
m ittees of the Society. U nder the leadership
of their chairm en th ey have undertaken and
done their work w ithout prompting. Judy
Gordon has coordinated the efforts of the
com m ittees, all of w hich makes it easy for
the president. I give thanks to these working
com m ittees under Drs. Brokaw, Gross, Gal
braith, H aley, M cBride, O’Connell, Rey
nolds, T. J. Smith, Sparling, Tanbara and
Zimmerman. Special services w ere rendered
the Society by Drs. Rigos, Osborne, Race,
Shaw, Schwind, Buttorff and Bob Johnson. I
mention the names with misgivings because
in this space it is not possible to expand on
w hat each accom plished and I am sure that
some names have been omitted. I think Stan
Tuell has done an outstanding job as editor
of the Bulletin even if he has made me
write this column everv month. A m ie H errm ann, a fixture as secretarytreasurer, was indispensable. All of the trustees w ere regular in attend
ance and m ade im portant contributions.
During the year we m et with executives of the press, radio, tele
vision, UGN, Bar Association, Insurance M en’s organization, Madigan
hospital, State M edical Association and others. Through discussions of
our m utual relations with these groups, an improved groundwork for
future action has been developed.
Problems have been encountered, but m ore remain ahead. The
most serious of these, as far as the w elfare of patients is concerned, is
the program of creeping socialism proposed by the present national
administration. W e m ust work to show our patients that the present
free enterprise system of m edicine is best— not by lecturing to them
but by our day to day attitude of interest and concern for their individ
ual welfare. W e should also influence legislation by supporting candi
dates who favor individual initiative and by making our views on
political issues known at the local, state and national levels. W e have
a congenial, closely-knit group of physicians in this community who
can accom plish m uch working together.
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B U L L E T IN of the P ie rce C ou n ty M ed ical S ociety
A wise general practitioner once told m e th at when he referred a
patient, he spoke in this fashion: “I ’m going to refer you to the best
gall-bladder surgeon (o r cardiologist, or allergist, or bone doctor) in
the Pacific N orthw est. His nam e is D octor A .”
In com parison to this rather radical m ethod of referral, the ultra
conservative and bend-over-backw ards-to-be-fair m ethod preferred by
others is to say, “H ere is a list of three well qualified surgeons (o r intern
ists, general practitioners, e tc .). You take your pick and call one of
them for an appointm ent about your problem .”
F o r outright, blunt honesty, the second m ethod is probably the
m ost com m endable; T acom a has a num ber of com petent men in each
field. H ow ever, for the degree of service rendered the patient, some of
the principles of the first m ethod are w orthy of consideration. The
referring doctor can be of im m easurable help to the consultant, and
hence to the patient, if he can m ake his recom m endation in a man
ner that will send the patient into the next d octor’s office in a receptive
and confident fram e of mind. A highly intelligent and emotionally
m ature patient m ay accep t the “list-of-three” m ethod without loss of
confidence. H ow ever, most patients develop a certain degree of emo
tional dependence on their doctor, and the “list-of-three” method may
leave them disappointed. They lack confidence in their ability to make
a decision that they had expected their doctor to make for them, and
as they first m eet their new doctor, they find th at running through the
backs of their minds is the frustrating thought, “W h at if this one is
the worst of the th ree?” It would be analogous, and equally detrimental
to the effectiveness of the treatm ent, if we w ere to hand a patient three
prescriptions, saying, “H ere are three medicines of equal effect. You
take your pick of which one you’d like, and start using it.” Certainly
the m edication is m ore likely to be effective if w e give only one pre
scription, telling the patient that this is the m edicine we feel is best
for his problem.
E ven if the “best-in-the-northw est” m ethod is too extreme for you,
perhaps you will agree that the “list-of-three” m ethod is not always
the best either. F o r certain em otionally dependent patients, you will
potentiate the effectiveness of D octor A if you say to the patient,
“D octor A does excellent work in this field and I would like to send
you to him .” Your sense of fairness to the equally com petent doctors,
B and C, will be satisfied by subsequent referrals. Or perhaps your
patient will have a personal reason for not liking D octor A, in which
case you m ay present D octor B as being equally com petent and
conscientious.
The effectiveness of any m ode of therapy is related in part to
the confidence of the patient in th at therapy; hence, the importance
of the m ethod of referral in its influence on the confidence of the
patient in his new doctor.
S.W .T.
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ACHROMYCIN
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ACHROMYCIN Ear Solution concentrates
the potent activity of tetracycline for
effective local anti-infective action. It is
especially useful in otitis externa due to
mixed organisms. Patient antibiotic in
tolerance and tissue toxicity are minimal.
ACHROMYCIN Ear Solution is effective
against both Gram-positive cocci and
Gram-negative bacteria.
T e tra c y c lin e L e d e rle
A C H R O M Y C IN E a r S o lu tio n : E a ch u n it c o n ta in s 1
b o ttle P o w d e r, 50 m g .: 1 b o t t le D ilu e n t (b e n z o c a in e
5 % s o lu tio n in p r o p y le n e g ly c o l)
ACHROMYCINV
T e tra c y c lin e H C I w ith C itr ic A c id L e d e rle
C a p S u l e s - 2 5 0 m g . , 1 0 0 mg.
p re c a u tio n s
LEDERLE L A B O R A T O R Y ,
c „ „ t r a ln d i c a t i o n s , ro m y o u r
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D iv is io n o f A M E R IC A N C Y A N A M ID C O M P A N Y , P e a , R iv e , N ew Y o rk
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Nominees — 1963
Ballots received by mail are to be returned to the M edical Society
office not later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, D ecem ber 11, 1962.
PRESIDENT-ELECT (Vote for 1)
D ouglas P. Buttorff, M .D .
Fran k J. Rigos, M .D.
VICE-PRESIDEN T (Vote for 1)
Philip G renley, M .D.
M errill J. W icks, M .D.
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Arnold J. H errm ann, M .D .
TRU STEES (Vote for 3)
W illiam E . Avery, M .D .
M ahlon R. Hosie, M.D.
L ester S. Baskin, M .D .
G ovnor Teats, M .D.
Jam es E . H azelrigg, M .D.
Charles R. Vaught, M.D.
DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES (Vote for 11)
R ichard F . Barronian, M .D .
Charles J. Galbraith, M.D.
Law ren ce Brigham , M .D .
Kenneth E . Gross, M.D.
R obert R. Burt, M .D .
Arnold J. H errm ann, M.D.
Douglas P. Buttorff, M .D .
R obert C. Johnson, M.D.
Thom as H. Clark, M .D .
H erm an S. Judd, M.D.
John F . Com fort, M .D .
G eorge A. R ace, M .D.
R obert P. Crabill, M .D .
John M. Shaw, M .D.
Robert M. Ferguson, M .D .
Stanley W . Tuell, M .D.
R obert W . Floren ce, M .D .
Long-term effectiveness of METICORTEN continues to
dS
b e demonstrated in J . G . , the arthritic miner whose
to lead a fully active life today, after seven years of therapy.
before M e t i c o r t e n —Rheumatoid arthritis com
despite cortisone, gold and analgesics
Hydro
since M e t ic o r t e n — Prompt improvement with M e t ic o r t e n , begun April
2, 1955— Returned to work that same year
Maintained to date on
M e t ic o r t e n , 1 0 -15 m g ./d a y , w ith o u t seriou s sid e effects, w ith jo in t p a in
co n tro lled a n d full u se o f h a n d s a n d lim bs.
Case history provided by Joel Goldman, M.D., Johnstown, Pa. Original photograph November 10,1960;
follow-up photographs, November 29, 1961.
M e t i c o r t e n , ® brand of prednisone, s - o i o
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DEC
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Dr. Phillip H. Backup Chairm an
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ASTHMAA CLASSIC INDICATION FOR
HALDRONE®
(p a ra m e th a so n e a cetale, L illy )
Haldrone produces rapid remission of the symptoms of asthma
and controls th e p atien t over exten d ed periods w ith relativ e
freedom from side-effects. In recomm ended dosage, Haldrone is
unlikely to cause sodium retention and has little or no effect on
potassium excretion.
Suggested daily dosage for asthma:
Initial suppressive d o s e ..................... 6*12 mg.
Maintenance d o se .............................. 2*6 mg.
This is a reminder advertisement. For adequate
Supplied in bottles of 30, 100, and 500 tablet*:
information for use, please consult m anufac
2 mg.. Orange (scored)
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of the
hats o r tra n q u iliz e rs ...
to alleviate cardiac anxiety
IN
B R I E F \ V i s t a r i l , h y d r o x y z in e p a m o a t e ( o r a l ) a n d h y d r o x y z in e h y d r o c h l o r i d e ( p a r e n t e r a l) , I s a c a lm ln g 'a g e n t u n re
la te d c h e m i c a ll y t o p h e n o t h ia z in e , r e s e rp in e , o r m e p r o b a m a t e . V is t a r il h a s a n t i n a u s e a n t a n d a n tie m e t ic p rope rtie s,
a n d h a s b e e n s h o w n to lo w e r n a r c o t ic r e q u i r e m e n t s b y a s m u c h a s 5 0 p e r c e n t w h e n a d m in is t e r e d p reo p erative ly
a n d p r e p a r t u m . It s u s e f u l n e s s in r e lie v in g a n x ie t y , a p p r e h e n s i o n , o r f e a r — o c c u r r i n g a lo n e o r in a s s o c ia t io n w ith
p h y s i c a l d is e a s e — is e n h a n c e d
b y th e fa c t t h a t n o t o x ic it y h a s b e e n r e p o r t e d f r o m
it s u s e u n d e r p ro p e r tech
n i q u e s a t r e c o m m e n d e d d o s a g e s , a n d b y it s r e m a r k a b l e r e c o r d o f f r e e d o m f r o m s e r i o u s s id e e ffects. D ro w sin e s s,
u s u a l l y t r a n s i t o r y o r c o r r e c t a b le b y d o s a g e re d u c t io n , m a y o c c u r in
so m e
in s t a n c e s .
D r y n e s s o f m o u th m ay
o c c u r w ith h ig h e r d o s e s . It s p o t e n t ia t in g a c t io n s h o u l d b e t a k e n In t o a c c o u n t w h e n V is t a r il is u s e d in c o n ju n c
t io n w it h a n t i c o a g u la n t s a n d c e n t r a l n e r v o u s s y s t e m
d e p re ssa n ts.
In t r a v e n o u s in je c tio n
o f V ist a ril sh o u ld
n ot
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a n d p r e c a u t io n s , c o n s u l t p a c k a g e in s e r t b e f o r e u s i n g . M o r e d e t a ile d p r o f e s s io n a l i n fo r m a t io n a v a ila b le o n request.
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the purpose determ ines the choice
Vistaril’ ;s a specific choice
In a d d it io n t o t h e c a l m in g a c t io n y o u e x p e c t f r o m a n e f f e c t iv e t r a n q u il
iz e r , V is t a r il p r o v id e s e x t r a b e n e f it s s p e c if ic a lly f o r t h e c a r d ia c p a t ie n t .
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reported beneficial effects in arrhythm ias of acute onset and short duration
VISTARIL Capsules and Oral Suspension, hydroxyzine pamoate/Parenteral Solution, hydroxyzine hydrochloride
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if you find an error, call either Ruth or
Janet.
So nice to see Evelyn Sturdevant from
Puyallup and welcome to new members,
Wanda Rose, Bonnie Stagner, Edna Cham
bers and Jane Lambing.
W'e do not have a large percentage of
members whose dues are paid. Perhaps
some of us don’t know how the ten dollar
dues are used. Two dollars from each mem
ber becomes the hostess fee. When you
consider that seven lovely luncheons are
yours for two dollars it becomes a real
bargain! Three dollars and fifty cents go
Speakers Bureau..
to National and State membership dues.
Telephone_______
Minute W om en_
Two dollars support the American Medical
Education Fund. Thus, we have two dol
lars and fifty cents to cover the cost of our
year books, postage, supplies and any other
incidentals. And because the entire amount
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of dues is used, we ask your support of our
projects, as the cook book which produce
the money for the nursing scholarships.
Many of our families have special Christmas plans. Off for Disneyland and Palm
Ruth Murphy was a gracious hostess to Springs are Dorothy and Haskel Maier, Pat
the fifty members of the Pierce County and John Flynn and their children. Marilyn
Medical Auxiliary who met November 16. and Jack Mandeville will take their young
After a delicious luncheon, guest speaker, sters to the Chelan area where they’ll go
Mr. Bruce LeRoy of the State Historical to the smaller lakes nearby and fish through
Museum, spoke of his work and the future the ice.
plans for the museum. A brief business
Jeanne Judd will join other members of
meeting followed. Of primary importance her family in Duluth, Minn., on January 3
is the continued sale of cook books. Call to honor her grandfather on his ninety-fifth
Ruth Murphy or Janet O’Connell for in birthday.
formation. And thank you, Dr. Tuell, for
Gwenn and Russ Hosie and the two chil
your clever analysis of the book. He really dren are flying to New York for a vacation.
read it thoroughly, didn’t he! Wonder how En route they will make several stops and
many recipes he has tried? To err is human, visit relatives.
as we know, and though the recipes were
Marcy and Wendell Peterson will fly to
typed, re-typed and proof-read, a mistake Oakland with their four children, then
or two appears in the book. To Ruth Mur drive with relatives to Los Angeles for a
phy’s brownies add V2 cup of butter; in Peterson family reunion. There will be
Jeanne Judd’s Diggity Bars (cookie divi thirty-five family members in the party.
sion) change the three teaspoons of soda Sounds like a wonderful time for all.
to 1/3 teaspoon. Check your recipes and
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The Everett Nelsons with son, Jim, will
fly to Hawaii for the holidays. As this is
written, Muriel is recuperating from a thy
roid infection which confined her to the
hospital for several days.
And so begins the hectic, fun-filled days
which lead to Christmas. Happy Holidays
to everyone. See you in the New Year!
It was my privilege to represent the
Washington Division of the American Can
cer Society at the 49th Annual Meeting held
in New York City the week of October 22.
It was one of the most interesting and cer
tainly the most inspiring experiences of my
life.
Much of the Scientific Sessions which
dealt with the “Clinical Impact of a Quarter
Century of Cancer Research,” were natur
ally way over my head. However I did
understand enough to be thrilled with what
has been accomplished in the past twentyfive years and excited over what is being
done at the moment and what the future
could hold. To illustrate the scope of the
program I would like to list just a few of
the speakers.
Dr. John R. Heller, President, Memorial
Sloan-Ketering Cancer Center who spoke
on “Milestones in Cancer Control—Past 25
Years.”
Dr. Albert Tannenbaum, Director of
Cancer Research, Michael Reese Hospital,
Chicago, Chemical Carcinogenesis.
Dr. Austin R. Rrues, Argonne National
Laboratory, Physical Agents as Causative
Factors.
Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, Professor of
Virology, University of California at Berke
ley, who spoke on Viruses and Cancer.
Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, Sloan-Kettering
Institute, Tobacco and Cancer.
Sir Robert Platt, Professor, Department
of Medicine, University of Manchester,
Manchester, England, who spoke on Tobac
co and Cancer and the action taken in
England.
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room kit titled “To Smoke or Not to Smoke”,
In addition to 21 Honorary Life Mem has reached into over half the nation’s
bers, the Board is composed of 74 members, 30.000 secondary schools. More than 4 mil
half professional, half lay, representing the lion leaflets pertaining to smoking have
60 divisions of the American Cancer So been given to teenagers. The Professional
ciety. This list looks like “Who’s Who” in Education program continues to expand,
the bi-monthly cancer journal “CA” reaches
America.
One of the things that impressed me most 125.000 physicians. Research grants in the
was the unity of these Board Members to amount of $11,549,598.00 were given to 459
a common cause. It gave one something applicants. It is interesting to note that one
to ponder over, the contrast of the sincerity, of every six dollars given for research is
the willingness to compromise on personal given to Leukemia research.
These are just a very few of the progres
issues, to accomplish the established goals
that took place at our meeting, while at sive accomplishments of 1961-62. With
the very same time in the United Nations more volunteers expanding the educational
Building just a few blocks away, much program, with more research, perhaps the
angry shouting and name calling was re 1962-63 year will be the year the magic key
sulting in chaos. It was inspiring to see a will unlock the secrets that will lead to the
Republican Governor, a Democratic Con conquest of this disease.
— R u th B rooke
gressman, a labor leader, many industrial
ists, people of many religions and creeds
A far reaching new medical education
but all working together in harmony and
accomplishing so very much. If only we loan guarantee program is now under way
could work out our world problems in the in American medicine. The goal of this
same climate and manner.
program is to help eliminate tire financial
The highlight of the meeting to those barrier to medicine for all who are quali
of us from Washington was the ovation and fied and accepted by approved training
tribute given Dr. Thomas Carlisle of Se institutions. It is designed to provide a
attle who was the 1961-62 President of the means of financing a substantial portion of
Society. His outstanding leadership was the cost of a medical education.
greatly responsible for the highly successful
The loan program for medical students,
year of cancer progress. A year which in interns and residents is the result of a co
cluded the Eighth International Cancer operative effort by American medicine and
Congress in Moscow where 600 Americans private enterprise.
participated in a pooling of knowledge
The program is administered by the
from many nations: the “Man Against Can American Medical Association’s Education
cer” Exhibit at the World’s Fair viewed and Research Foundation. The E R F has
by approximately a million people; 2,500,000 educational pamphlets distributed
through various labor unions during “La
NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION
bor’s March on Cancer”; over 6,000 bowling
establishments participated in “Bowl Down
Cancer. The latter two programs made it
possible to reach millions of persons with
life saving information that would not
o ffe rin g m o d ern sp ace fo r m ed ical
ordinarly be reached through the usual
su
ites in fa st g ro w in g re sid e n tia l area.
media.
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was held in Phoenix, Arizona. The class
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of the
established a loan guarantee fund. On the
basis of this fund, the bank will lend up to
$1,500 each year to students. The E R F in
effect acts as co-signer. For each $1 on
deposit in the E R F ’s loan guarantee fund,
the bank will lend $12.50.
More than 3,300 students, interns and
residents have borrowed more than
$6,000,000 through this fund since it was
started last February. Physicians and others
have contributed almost $700,000 to the
loan guarantee fund, which makes possible
these loans.
The guarantee fund is almost depleted
and more money is needed immediately to
keep up the loan program. Eventually it
will become self-sustaining as loans are
repaid, but right now substantial financial
help is needed.
Note: Has your husband made a con
tribution to the American Medical Associa
tion Education and Research Foundation—
AM AERF?
To receive credit on this year’s list of
contributors to his alumni chapter, the
money should be sent to Pat Hoover, who,
in turn, must have the money in the AMA
E R F office in Chicago before December
31. The contribution is deductible on an
income tax return because it is considered
an educational organization, not organized
for profit.
The funds cover many needs of the
schools; teaching, building, equipment, re
search, and loan funds to students or
interns.
— M r s . K e n n e t h E. G r o s s
BEALL’S
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Haley New Editor;
All Members Urged
To Submit News
Beginning with the January issue, a new
editor wall take charge of the Pierce County
Medical Bulletin. He will be Dr. Ted
Haley. Ted was bom and raised in Tacoma
and returned in 1953 to start his surgical
practice. Any news items for possible pub
lication in the Bulletin should be forwarded
to him, or to the Bulletin’s business mana
ger, Judy Gordon, at the Society office.
Pictures should also be submitted if pos
sible, since an inexpensive method of re
producing these in the Bulletin is now
available, if they serve to illustrate a news
item or to publicize a coming meeting.
Any member of the Society may send in
items for publication to be used at the
discretion of the editor depending on the
space available in any particular issue and
if it is in keeping with Bulletin policies.
News items are always welcome, and guest
editorials are also invited if they are on a
subject of general interest, keeping in mind
that this is the official publication of the
Society and is sent to all parts of the
country.
All officers of local, or larger, organiza
tions should make use of the Bulletin to
publicize their future meetings, official
actions of their organizations, etc.
The current editor, Stan Tuell, feels ob
ligated to withdraw from the editorship
to serve as President of the Society.
BULLETIN of the P ierce County M edical Society
Old Surgical Group
Admits Three Tacomans;
Jess Read Presides
Tacoma surgeons played host to the
North Pacific Surgical Association at its
annual meeting held on November 16 and
17 at the Hyatt House. The association is
one of the oldest surgical groups in the
world and includes surgeons from Tacoma,
Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Victoria and
Vancouver, B.C. The two-day meeting was
the concluding event in the term of Dr.
Jess Read as President of the organization.
Dr. Read welcomed 15 new members to
the group, including three from Tacoma—
Doctors Ed Kanar, Clinton A. Piper and
Arthur Wickstrom.
Guest speaker for the affair was Dr.
Ralph A. Deterling, Jr., head of the Depart
ment of Surgery at Tufts University School
of Medicine in Boston, Mass. In the
Founders’ Lecture, Dr. Deterling told of
his experiences in aortic and arterial sur
gery. Dr. Read, in his Presidential Address,
discussed the rising cost of medical care,
stressing that the most expensive bed today
is not the empty bed, but the bed unneces
sarily occupied. Likewise, the most ex
pensive laboratory test is the test that is
ordered unnecessarily. By his efforts to cur
tail un-needed hospitalizations and unwar
ranted clinical tests, the individual physi
cian has an important responsibility in
limiting the rising cost of medical care.
Members presented 21 scientific papers.
Dr. James Cantrell of Seattle gave statistics
to support his view that the use of an
intrathoracic catheter in the treatment of
spontaneous pneumothorax was far superior
to the conservative, expectant method of
treatment, both in terms of a less compli
cated recovery and in a decreased hospital
stay. According to Dr. Peter Allen of Van
couver, the era of pen-knife thoracotomies
for cardiac arrest on the street corner or
in the home is over. Closed chest massage
techniques have been adequately tested
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and proved to be effective. Open-chest
cardiac massage is applicable mainly in the
surgical suite, where positive pressure
apparatus and other facilities are available
to properly support the patient with
thoracotomy.
Dr. James Vadheim and Dr. Arthur Wick
strom, both of Tacoma, presented a paper
on “The Use of an Intraluminal Tube as a
Means of Preventing Intestinal Obstruc
tion.” In cases seen in the operating room
which might appear pre-disposed to de
velop subsequent bowel obstruction, they
recommend the use of a long intraluminal
tube which is threaded down the bowel
through a jejunostomy to splint the bowel
so that as adhesions form, the bowel will
be in a position that will be unlikely to
cause obstruction. The method is simpler
than the historical Noble plication of the
bowel, requires much less time, and also
provides for instant and continued decom
pression of the involved loops of intestine.
A pair of papers on inguinal herniorrha
phy excited considerable comment. Dr.
Fred Bentley of Portland reviewed the
anatomical features of inguinal hemia re
pair, including the frequent use of a piece
of Teflon mesh as a prosthesis to aid in
strengthening the floor of Hesselbach’s tri
angle. Dr. Lloyd Nyhus of Seattle, cham
pioned his pre-peritoneal approach for
nearly all groin hernias. Some discussants
gave personal testimonials concerning their
experiences as patients having this type of
surgery. Virtually all agreed that one of the
most significant features of a good repair
is the use of the transversalis fascia or its
analogues.
Under Federal narcotic regulations gov
erning the prescription and dispensing of
narcotic drugs, it is unlawful for a physician
to prescribe any narcotic medication for a
patient whom he is not attending or lias not
personally seen.
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Saint Joseph's
Convention News
Mrs. H. Wentlandt, RN from Medical
floor and Mrs. M. Ramsdell, RN from Sur
gical floor attended the first of a two part
education session at the University of
Washington on November 8 and 9.
Sisters Cuniberta, Paul, Celine Magdalen,
Martha Joseph, Francis Joseph, and Joseph
Margaret attended the conference on
Medic-Moral Problems given by Father
Lynch at Seattle University, November 13,
14, and 15.
Sister Francis Edwardine and Sister
Helene attended a Regional Conference for
Nursing Service Directors in Portland from
November 14 to November 16. It was very
interesting and I’m certain some of the
information will be of interest to you.
The highlights of all of these conferences
will be handed out to each of you before
the end of the month.
thanks to all who participated and cooper
ated in making it a success.
The winner of the Bride Doll was Mrs.
Joseph Slater from Port Orchard. Our sur
prise package went to our faithful papei
boy, Benny Gervais. To him it was a great
surprise to find a beautiful new born baby
doll.
The raffle for the exquisite table cloth
has not come off as yet. Perhaps it will take
place before Christmas or shortly after. Be
sure to contact students if you have not
already taken that lucky chance.
Senior Class: The Senior Class sponsored
the Halloween Dance last month and we
are happy to report that it was an all
around success. We want to extend a hearty
thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Ramsdell and Mr.
and Mrs. Wetch for being wonderful
chaperones.
Selling Christmas cards is keeping all of
us busy now. Anyone wishing to buy them
may contact any one of us.
For the busy, working, housewives we
will be sponsoring a bake sale on December
12.
Recently the family of Miss Regina Rakoz, senior student nurse, was selected as
The Tacoma Association of Medical the Dairy Family of the year. An open
Record Librarians has resumed its monthly house was sponsored by the Lewis County'
meetings during the month of October. The Dairy Federation honoring the family.
first meeting was held on October 13 at
Junior Class: The Junior student nurses
the Northern Pacific Hospital. Problems have been seen elsewhere than along the
that are common to all the Librarians in
corridors of St. Joseph this month.
the area were discussed. Coffee and cookies
One group, including the Misses Wiggins,
were served by the host hospital. These Frederick, Holter and Fredriksen attended
monthly meetings are of a special interest
the State SWANS Convention here in Ta
to the students because of the opportunity
coma. The girls felt the meetings were very
to see the different hospitals in this area
interesting in depicting the purposes of
and hear discussions of subjects pertinent
nursing and the various ways each school
to the work we all aspire to be doing in the
achieves this goal. The social activity in
future.
meeting many out-of-state girls was also
We are busy gathering news and typing enjoyed.
the Evergreen Bulletin. This is the publica
Preclinicals: October was a busy month
tion for Washington State Medical Record
for the preclinicals studying, preparing for
Personnel. It is published four times a year.
the future construction of their nursing
career.
School of Nursing
Medical Records Department
The School of Nursing held its Annual
“Holiday Fair” on November 5, 6 and 7.
Sister Martha Joseph wishes to express her
Studying, of course, was not all we did.
There were many outside activities in
which we participated. Among these was
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o f th e
the election of the class officers. Elected
were:
Kathy Dunn, President
Mary Ann Molchan, Vice President
Kathy Shaw, Secretary
Angie Mortenson, Treasurer
Joan English, Student Body Represen
tative, Sergeant at Arms
Maureen Kastner, Social Committee
Chairman
Halloween was a happy time and a
sneaky time. Thirty-seven pre-clinicals
decorated their doors for the festive occa
sion. Witches, ghosts, spider webs, and full
moons covered the halls of the School of
Nursing on the second floor.
A delegation of preclinical students rep
resented their class and surprised the Sis
ters. Approximately fifteen girls, dressed in
Halloween costumes, waited outside the
chapel door for the Sisters to complete
Benediction. “Happy Halloween” to the
tune of “Happy Birthday” was sung and
cake and goodies were showered on the
Sisters. They all were very surprised! This
was a small way of saying “thank you” to
them for being so good to us.
Annex News
Jean Engels is back from her vacation.
She are her husband camped out for ten
days hunting the fleet-footed deer. They
brought home the bacon, too ( a three-point
buck that is ).
Both Fernita Albrecht and Paul Hall are
sporting new cars; both are beautiful.
We are all working feverishly to have
lots of interesting items completed for our
Christmas Sale, which is coming up the first
part of December. You’ll be hearing more
about it. Hope we see all of you there.
Pedi News
The children enjoyed a Halloween party
given them by the staff. W e all enjoyed
the short films shown on our new movie pro
jector. W e have been saving for quite some
time for the projector to help entertain the
children and to show educational films for
the staff at our monthly intradepartmental
meetings. Our wish finally came true with
the help of a generous donation from one
of our patient’s family.
Miss Lien became engaged this month
and is planning a holiday wedding. Our
otiier new bride, Mrs. Strunk, sends her
hellos from New Jersey. She likes the East
but has a lonesome spot for St. Joseph’s.
W e want to thank the administration for
our newly remodeled bathroom.
Dietary Department
Mrs. Peterson is preparing to send her
son his annual Christmas box in Okinawa.
Mrs. Middaugh was the guest of honor
at a lovely birthday dinner at Johnny’s
Dock last Wednesday.
Our sympathy goes to Adell for her pain
ful experience of getting her finger so
badly cut. The night shift misses her very
much as they do Thelma who also is off, ill.
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Doctors, Wives Need
Pictorial Roster;
Prompt Orders Urged
All doctors, or doctors’ wives, who have
not already done so, should place their
orders for copies of the pictorial roster
which will be coming off the press soon.
The roster will contain a list of all mem
bers of the Pierce County Medical Society,
with pictures, names of medical schools
attended, and the specialty, home and of
fice phone numbers of each doctor. An
additional feature this year will be the
given name of the doctor’s wife, a handy
reference to glance at before dashing off
to a social affair where you’ll be seeing
some of your colleagues’ wives and want
to avoid groping for the proper name. At
last count, there were 139 orders in, and
at least 200 orders are desired.
Do not send in a check with your order,
as the exact price per copy will depend
on the number of orders that are sent in.
Just call or write the Society office and let
Judy Gordon know if you want a pictorial
roster, and how many. Many wives will no
doubt want one to refer to, and it would be
most convenient to have one at the office
and another at home.
Doctors Become U.S.
Citizens
Two Pierce County physicians became
United States citizens along with a large
group of other applicants at ceremonies
conducted in Tacoma on November 26th.
They were Doctor Stevens Dimant and
Doctor Robert Klein. Dr. Dimant was born
in Bournemouth, England and has been
practicing in Tacoma since 1957; Dr. Klein
is a native of Holland and has practiced
here since 1958.
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A. H. Robins Co., Fetes
Interns and Residents
At least 40 interns and residents from
the Tacoma area enjoyed an evening of
relaxation, sociability and good food on
Wednesday, November 28th in the Presi
dential Suite at the Winthrop Hotel. Host
for the evening was the A. H. Robins Co.,
Inc. which has arranged similar dinners
for interns and residents in all parts of the
nation as an annual gesture of courtesy
to doctors still in training. Largest repre
sentation at the Tacoma affair was from
Madigan General Hospital. There was a
social hour for all, provided by the Robins
Co., then a steak dinner with the usual
trimmings. Local detail men of the com
pany were also on hand to get acquainted
with the doctors.
Cardiac Diet Classes
Cardiac diet classes, with admission by
physician’s prescription, will be presented
in Puyallup in January by the Pierce
County Heart Association.
Classes will be instructed by dieticians.
All physicans in the Puyallup Valley area
will received copies of the five diet guide
books which will be used as basis for in
struction so that appropriate diet for each
patient attending can be prescribed. In
structions will be given in the 500 mg., 1000
mg., and mild sodium diet and in planning
fat controlled meals for 1200 to 1800 cal
ories and fat controlled meals for unre
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B U L L E T IN o f the
A Lesson in Socialism
As a teacher in the public schools, I find
that die socialist-communist idea of taking
“from each according to his ability” and
giving “to each according to his need” is
now generally accepted without question
by most of our pupils. In an effort to ex
plain the fallacy of this theory, I sometimes
try this approach with my pupils:
When one of the brighter or harderworking pupils makes a grade of 95 on a
test, I suggest that I take away 20 points
and give them to a student who has made
only 55 on his test. Thus, each would have
a passing mark— would received according
to his need— and would contribute accord
ing to his ability.
After I have juggled the grades of all the
other pupils in this fashion, the result is
usually a “common ownership” grade of
between 75 and 80— the minimum needed
for passing, or for survival. Then I specu
late with die pupils as to the probable re
sults if I actually used the socialistic theory
for grading papers.
First, the highly productive pupils— and
they are always a minority in school as well
as in life— would soon lose all incentive for
producing. Why strive to make a high grade
if part of it is taken from you by “authority”
and given to someone else?
Second, the less productive pupils — a
majority in school as elsewhere — would,
for a time, be relieved of the necessity to
study or produce. This socialist-communist
system would continue until the high pro
ducers had sunk— or had been driven down
—to the level of the low producers. At that
point, in order for anyone to survive, the
“authority” would have no alternative but
to begin a system of compulsory labor and
punishments against even the low pro
ducers. They, of course, would complain
bitterly, but without understanding.
OVERWEIGHT?
TH E ANOREXIC T H A T 'S D IFFER EN T:
NO REPORTED C O N TR A IN D IC A TIO N S
TENUATE*
Finally, I return the discussion to the
ideas of freedom and enterprise — the
market economy — where each person has
freedom of choice and is responsible for
his own decisions and welfare.
Gratifyingly enough, most of my pupils
then understand what I mean when I ex
plain that socialism— even in a democracy
— will eventually result in a living death for
all except the “authorities” and a few of
their lackeys.
— A letter from Thomas J. Shelly,
teacher of Economics and History,
Yonkers High High School, Yonkers
2, N e w York. Reprinted from Clip
pings of Note, Number 36, published
by The Foundation for Economic
Education, Inc.
Miami Beach To Host
Medicolegal Conference
The American Medical Association’s 1963
Medicolegal Symposium will be held at
the Americana Hotel in Miami Beach,
March 8-9. More than 1,000 physicians and
attorneys are expected to attend.
Sponsored by the AMA’s Legal and SocioEconomic Division, the meeting will fea
ture three IV 2 hour mock trials based on
medicolegal cases.
Among the topics scheduled for discus
sion at this meeting are: Medicolegal As
pects of Encephalography, Medicolegal
Implications of Hypnosis, and Medico
legal Aspects of Cancer and Cigarette
Smoking.
Previously, the AMA conducted three
Medicolegal Symposiums every other year.
However, this year the Miami Beach meet
ing will be the only one.
Registration fee for the meeting will be
$10 to cover the cost of a luncheon and a
copy of the proceedings. Advance registra
tion cards may be obtained by writing: C.
Joseph Stetler, Director, Legal and SocioEconomic Division, American Medical
Association, 535 N. Dearborn Street, Chi
cago 10, Illinois.
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