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Carl W. Braun '58, pre-medical student, describes the emergency ward at MGH, where he works once each week, as "an on and off business." In the course of a three-hour stretch one evening, Braun remembers helping with two auto accident cases, one Delirium Tremens, two epileptics, a violent neurotic, and three battling cab drivers who had bashed each other's cars and heads...
...city institution where the cycle of birth, death and all the calamities in between are common daily experience. College volunteers provide the entire supply of non-trained orderlies for the Accident Room where almost every emergency case in Cambridge is treated. The 20 College students who contribute a weekly, three-hour stint do clerical work, restrain violent patients, assist at emergency births and X-rays, comfort the sick and injured while they await treatment, and wheel off the dead to the morgue. Cambridge City Volunteers probably see more of "a real slice of life" than anyone else not formally connected...
Most of the Accident Room work is hardly this exciting, Cooper says. The nervous strain of alternating between continuous waiting and concentrated action leaves the Volunteer weary after his three-hour period on duty. "The excitement doesn't leave you keyed up, but just exhausted," he says. "Seeing people in agony, you think that you're as far above animals as they are above inert matter. The suffering person has no defenses left, his inhibitions are gone. Often he seems to lose the dignity that makes him human...
This morning Willey will conduct a special three-hour session on new study methods of prehistoric culture contact. All anthropology students, he said, are expected to attend this session, at least in part. He plans to present a new method of analyzing the fusion of two different cultures with only local artifacts, not written records...
Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans...