Word: cwiklinski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Cwiklinski got out of his hospital bed in Milwaukee at 6:30 a.m., threw on a sports shirt and slacks, strolled down to the cafeteria for breakfast. After breakfast, he had a back rub, went for a walk in the hospital park, leisurely enjoyed the Lake Michigan landscape in the brisk spring...
...Cwiklinski, a 45-year-old fireman with an ulcer, was not flouting hospital rules. As one of 24 patients in St. Mary's 25-bed self-care unit, he was well within them. For over six months the new unit had been taking in patients whose needs are not urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths...
...friends on their floor and do not want to leave; others simply like the service. "Why should I move?" asked one. "Blue Cross is paying for it." But the staff is determined to help patients help themselves. Their best argument is the cheerful people in self-care. Says Patient Cwiklinski: "The less attention they give me the better. And that's the way it is here...