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Dr . William Buschemeyer : My internship was straight surgery at Vanderbilt . I remember distinctly one time a man came into the ER and he had been shot with a shotgun through his legs . We were operating on this guy and we took veins out of his legs to reverse and make arteries because it ’ d blown the arteries out . I was so tired I just about fell over onto the patient . They said just go back and sleep and the only place I could go sleep was a big round table in the lounge in surgery at Nashville General Hospital . There was no place else to sleep .
Dr . Charles Oberst : I had an 8 – 10-year-old boy who was having trouble breathing . We took a chest X-ray and I looked at it and one lung was tremendously over-expanded and the other was under-expanded . I said , “ I think I ’ ve seen that X-ray before .” I go out to the father and ask if by any chance did he spank this kid before they came in . He and his wife looked at each other and they said yes . And I said , “ Well did he have something in his mouth ?” And the father said yes . The kid had aspirated a peanut . That X-ray had been shown to me by Larry Davis , head of pediatric radiology , when I was a junior medical student . I remember him saying if you see a picture like that , check for a foreign body . The thoracic surgery resident came down and couldn ’ t believe that this rotating intern from Louisville , Kentucky picked this up . That was one of the highlights of my emergency room month .
Dr . Greg Kunz : At Grady in 1959 in what was called a rotating internship , I was on the emergency service but had not done OB .
The nurse comes running in and said a lady was delivering and needed to be attended to . I rushed out and there was the biggest , longest , yellowest Cadillac I ’ ve ever seen . This woman was sideways in the front seat . One leg was around the steering wheel , it was pitch black , and I had to work through her clothes . This was the second delivery I think I had ever been on . I grabbed blindly and got the baby out and it lived , and I was eternally grateful .
Mrs . Susanne Wright ( wife of Dr . Jesse Wright ): Jess did one year of rotating internship at Lankenau Hospital in Pennsylvania . One night a patient presented himself staggering and unclear in his speech . He wasn ’ t drunk or on drugs . Jess was assigned to do a physical exam . He took the instrument that you use to look in the ears , and as he was looking in the patient ’ s ear , two antennae began to flicker and soon a large head appeared , and it was a giant roach . The gentleman ’ s physical condition was directly related to having a foreign object in his ear .
Dr . Mary Barry : The patients took care of us . They were always smiling at us and thanking us . One time I fell asleep standing up on my feet in the Medical Emergency Room . I had no idea I fell asleep . I was talking to this nice lady whose husband had had a stroke and eventually she tapped me and said , “ Honey , you ’ ve been asleep for 15 minutes , you probably have a lot to do .” They looked after us as well as they could .
Kathryn Vance is the Communication Specialist at the Greater Louisville Medical Society .
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