Word: grindlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled to be put under a missionary doctor with native nurses. But he proved an excellent, tireless surgeon and gradually lost his standoffishness...
There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...
...there. As soon as he got to Maymyo he sent down the only U.S. Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay, to work with me. Grindlay, after having Koi, Kyang Lewi and Maru Bauk assist him at various particularly bad cases, adopted the whole crowd, and to this day tells everyone they are the best trained nurses he ever...