Word: westberg
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...being tried in at least two medical centers in New York City, and at others in Rochester, N.Y., Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Winnipeg. About half of the hundred or more babies treated have been saved. Last month the University of California's Dr. Jimmie Alf Westberg flew to Phoenix and supervised a Liley-style transfusion. The 40-year-old mother had lost ten babies to Rh incompatibility. Her latest pregnancy will have a chance of success...
From working with such patients, Lutheran Pastor Granger E. Westberg of Chicago concluded: "The minister has his tongue tied by well-meaning relatives who insist that he never mention anything about death to the patient. The minister is held back from helping his parishioner in this moment of crisis. So the minister is forced to limit his conversation to the weather and the activities of the ladies' aid." Happily, said Pastor Westberg, more and more patients understand the nature of their illness and freely discuss their prognoses. They quickly come to the point with their pastors: "I know what...