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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been given morphine, but he was still sobbing when an intern bent over him. A neat little hole showed where the slug had entered the lower left side of his chest. "Probably hit a lung," the doctor said. An attendant was getting ready to take the boy to surgery when his mother and father, a packinghouse worker, arrived...
...mother touched the boy's cheek. "What made him do it? What made him do it?" she said in a low voice. The parents and the police followed the boy upstairs. In the surgery, a woman intern began a transfusion of blood and saline solution, slipped a tube through the boy's nose and into his stomach to sample its contents for telltale signs of blood...
...Knopp flipped the girl's nails and pricked her arm with a needle. No response. Spirits of ammonia held under her nose produced a violent head shaking which stopped as soon as the irritant was removed. The intern spoke into her ear, calling her by her first name. "Ann," he said, "can you hear me? What hurts you, Ann? Can you tell me?" The girl seemed to be making an effort to speak; she got out the word "stomach," and clutched her abdomen...
...intern marked the girl's chart "Possible 100% HY" (hysteria), noted "no abnormal reflexes, no response to painful stimuli," summoned an attendant to carry her to a sixth-floor ward...
Upstairs, the old diabetic seemed to be resting quietly (though, next day, he was to take a turn for the worse and die in the night). The 70-year-old heart patient who wanted God to take her was in the hands of a girl intern, who found she was also suffering from cancer of the breast. "I've got her on oxygen, digitalis and aminophyl-line," the intern said. "Later, I'll get X-ray consultation on the cancer. But I scarcely know what's keeping her alive...