Calgary General Hospital - In Cap and Uniform Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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HOSPITAL will enter the hospital through the ambulance entrance. This entrance is perhaps better known to the staff than the visitors because through this door pass the nurses going on and off duty and all discharged patients. Here our tour starts on First East. This floor is entirely Medical patients. Now Medical (according to the dictionary) is an adjective which means—pertaining to or connected with medicine. We see that medicine is the science which relates to the treatment and alleviation of disease. We have doctors now who were formerly termed as medicine men. According to said same dictionary, medicine men are found among certain tribes, such as the North American Indians and are conjurers who profess to drive away evil spirits or disease by magical arts. If you worked on First East you would know that medical patients are not treated these days by magical art. Here the doctors test the patients for everything from reflexes to heart palpitations. Then they take all their find¬ ings and carefully make a diagnosis. The patient is now treated with every¬ thing from medicines to hot and cold applications. Several men work day and night in laboratories to discover the exact effect of all these treatments. And so the job of the doctor becomes a tremendous task. Here in First East we learn what this task is and how to appreciate it.

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OUR PLEDGE ,31 solemnly plebgc ntusclf before ©ob attb in the presence nf tljis assembly to pass my life in pnrity anb to practice my profession faithfully. 31 hiill abstain from tubatcher is beleterious anb ntiscljebions, anb luill not take or kuobmtgly abminister any liarmfnl brng. ,31 biill bo all in my poluer to maintain anb debate tl|c stanbarb of my profession, anb foil! bolb in confibence all personal matters com- mittcb to my beeping anb all family affairs coming to my knotulcbgc in tljc practice of my calling. Jttlith loyalty tnill 31 enbeabor to aib tljc pljysician in liis luork, anb bebotc myself to tljc bielfarc of tljose contmitteb to my care. Thirty-four

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TRIBUTE A building fair, set on a hill That overlooks a river’s flow. Haven of rest for all the ill Of the busy city—far below. There ceaselessly, the nurses toil To make man’s life a happier span. Sometimes with praise, but oft reproach Though putting forth the best they can. Can man not search his heart, and find The beauty of their selfless task? —And having found, ne’er more be blind To questions that he need not ask. In words of gold, for all to see, Despising not the sufferer’s call. Devotion—Faith—Fidelity, The Nurse exemplifies them all!