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

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MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1949— You are now members of a noble profession. A profession which has for its prime object “the service it can render humanity”. That service is further interpreted in your case as the maintenance of health and the post¬ ponement of death. It is the dedication of your knowledge, your powers, and your gifts to the services of others, rather than to the acquisition of material wealth. You must believe in the greatness of your profession, its dignity, its sta¬ bility, its real importance and its essential strength. I know you will reflect honour and credit to your profession and I hope you will derive from it the happiness that makes life worthwhile, and that you will be held in grateful remembrance by those whom you have served, and in respect and esteem by the Confrere’s with whom you have lived and worked. Sincerely, J. D. HEASLIP, M.D.

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Training School Office We, the Graduating Class of 1949, wish to express our thanks to the members of the Nursing School Office for their patience and guidance during our three years here. And to Miss Connal, whose outstanding ability and kindly interest led us so skillfully through our initial term, we wish to express our special thanks. To her we cannot express in words our deep appreciation.

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Second East We have all spent some time during our training days on Second East — storing memories in the log of time. The Operating Room phoning at 6:55 to inform us that Mr. X is booked for surgery, creating a hustle and bustle to get the prep” done and finally going off duty saying “It ' s all in a day’s work.” —Some of us will never forget going all over the hos¬ pital to get the doctors to sign the book”. Or the times we have gone to the T S.O. with all the broken thermom¬ eters, the tray somehow having slipped to the floor. —Admitting at 7:00 p.m.—You get the clothes book,— you get the orderly—you make up the chart—you—you and before we know it the patient is in bed, the doctor is phoned and then off we go. —Keeping close watch on al l sick and delirious patients and rushing around for a dressing room suturing. Yes, these are just some of the things that have filled the chapters of our diaries and provided the highlights of our training period.