Conemaugh Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Pink Cross Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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' 1 RHEUMATIC FEVER CLINIC Beat - rest, beat - rest, beat - rest. What music is this? Samba? No, the rhythm belongs to the normal pumping of the heart. Today, we realize that there is an increase in sick hearts among the old- ? er people in OU1' fClSf-mOV- Dr. C. A. Beerman and Dr. W. H. Winey direct Rheumatic Fever -Clinic ing age. What would be more distressing than to save for twenty years for that voyage to Europe and then find a dam- aged heart on a physical examination before sailing. Well, the verdict of heart trouble in most cases does not mean death overnight. Thousands of persons with heart disease are living com- fortable, happy, useful lives right now because they are co-operating with their doctors in giv- ing their hearts a chance, Many of them may live as long as they could reasonably expect to live without heart trouble. Some of them even have a chance of complete recovery. Our physicians believe that cz well-informed cardiac is one who not only has a knowledge of heart facts but of living with his handicapped heart as well. The philosophy of living recom- mended may be difficult for those people who have always been high-strung, prone to work too hard or worry too much. Yet those who are willing to slow up their previous living pace-to go ahead with less speed, less haste, less worry, less fearg who accept the situation and adjust to it cheerfully, coaxing their hearts along without letting their impairment become an obsession- these are the people who have the best chance of a full, happy and prolonged existence DESPITE heart trouble. lf we have one eye to the future on HEART disease, we will realize the opportunity the heart-blood vessel 'icheck-up opens to us. We have now the power to forestall the onset of any heart condition-if we are examination-minded. The knowledge received from tests and examina- tions reveals the true secrets of the heart. Dr. Meyer Bloom is head of our Department of Cardiology with Dr. Philip Ashman and Dr. Anderson as fellow physicians. Dr. Meyer Bloom and Eleanor Gredeslcy 1

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. 4 492. UM hun 25. Aa Q- CANCER CLINIC Had you a great-grandfather, a great- grandtather of the stock of American pioneers? Perhaps you remember the tingling sensation that came to you while listening to his backwoods stories of pioneer days in the West, of pathless for- est, of lashing hail, of wandering plains, nights of sparkling stars, when into a wagon camp blazing arrows from roam- ing hostile Indians were shot to scare white marauders from the land. Had you a grandfather who remembered tales of famine and of fever - of typhoid and smallpox days when through the streets rubber-tired, black-curtained hacks silently carried away the dead? These enemies are gone, but cancer remains! Trained minds of all the countries of the world are deeply intent upon its problem. Almost every community has an active cancer control program which has these objectives: prevention of cancer, case-finding and early diagnosis, and the establishment of cancer diagnostic and treat- ment facilities. Our Cancer-Tumor and our Cancer Detection Clinics, under the direction of Dr. L. R. Alte- mus, squarely meet these objectives! Both clinics offer specialized service for the cancer patient from a group of key specialists who are concerned and trained in cancer diagnosis and man- agement. Key members of both clinic staffs are: Pathologist, Dr. G. C. Leary, Radiologist, Dr. C. B. Co- berng Surgeons, Dr. L. R. Altemus, Dr. W. L. Hughes, Dr. George McCartney, Dr. W. H. Frank, Dr. I. B. Lovette and Dr. G. E. Gleason, Internists, Dr. R. A. Noon, Dr. Philip Ashman and Dr. Rich- ard Kraftg Gynecologists, Dr. D. G. Bloom and Dr. Hargreaves: Urologists, Dr. F. T. Carney and Dr. C. I. Carney: Ophalalmologist, Dr. L. M. Gurley, Ir., Otorhinolaryngologists, Dr. P. T. Meyers and Dr. W. K. Flora: Grthopedists, Dr. I. I. Huebner and Dr. G. H. Hudsong Dermatologist, Dr. W. F. Whitey Oral Surgeon, Dr. D. R. Wolford: Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. I. C. Hatch. Many victims of cancer have lost the fight, and many hearts are heavy at the mere thought of lick- ing this killer, but we feel confident that our clinics are doing a good job at striking back! Dr. L. R. Altemus directs Cancer Clinic Dr. W. H. Frank and Dr. I. B. Lovette

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