Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Architect ' s rendering of the new Ambulatory Care Center with the historic Bultinch the life expectancy of the average american is fairly easy fa calculate, given reasonably good health, a lifetime with- out war. a decent diet, and barring murder or death by accident, jane and John doe can fairly confidently expect to live well Into their seventh decade, the life expectancy of the typical american edifice, however, depends on many more variables and ' twas ever thus afmgh to witness the demolition of walcott house and the moseley building during the summer and fall of 1979 was to mourn the death of a stately couple and to twinge at the apparent callous- ness of the immediate family, while hardly euthanasia, the razing of these two elegant structures seemed unneces- sary. Ill-considered, and. to some, downright malevolent. It was none of these. as the health professions prepare for the nineteen eighties some hard decisions will be made, the status of nurses will change faster than we care to consider; technology threatens to outdistance the sum of knowledge, values, and ethics; the physician-patient relationship is evolving, as it should, toward a more equal partnership; nurses and other health professionals will seek and receive the responsibilities and the recognition they deserve, and. as it must, some program of national health insurance will be instituted, through all this, facilities will grow. walcott house and moseley building served well, their forms were solid, warm, richly textured, and. unhappily, best suited for a bygone era. their functions did not include service to the handicapped; their service systems were designed for an age when petroleum supplies seemed infi- nite; and the technology of safety, like that of health, has rendered similar structures unfit for the type of use likely to an ambulatory care center, walcott and moseley were casualties to the needs of the twenty-first century; that their destruction was necessary, however, makes it no less sad.

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natalie petzold r.n. director: school of nursing instructor level I nurshg ' ' dtnensions of nursing level III nursing professional adjustments miss petzold caps senior Janette lee miss natalie petzold portrait of leaders miss petzold pins senior truce laramee 18