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

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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.

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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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Third West We have now reached the top of the second flight of stairs and womens’ surgical extends to both right and left but let us first turn to the right and see Third West. 359! What is that in the large frame with all those pulleys and ropes and heavy bags? Oh! That’s a Balkan Frame extending some poor patient’s broken leg. Over there? A probationer is staying with a patient who has just returned from the Operating Room. These patients are never left until they completely regain con¬ sciousness because careful vigilance is necessary in re¬ gards to color, pulse, respiration and intravenous medi¬ cation. All along the left side are the private and semi-private rooms. On the right we see the Kitchen where the? trays are set up and the food is dished piping hot, this way to appeal to the greatest extent to our patients’ dim¬ inished appetites. The desk—the little work slip under the mica, the chart cupboard with every chart in its place, and the order book checked and carried out. The medicine cupboard—the blanket cupboard kept neatly by the Probies,—the dress¬ ing room ready for immediate use, and our twenty bed ward are all part of Women’s Surgical Third West.