Leukaemia and wartime evacuees

Group Teaching in Wartime

The coming of war has forced us to rediscover the merits of many discarded ways of living in all departments of life. In the realm of education, the emergency improvisation of home teaching units took us back temporarily to the days of the old dame school, but now that the first few weeks of initial disorganization which brought these to life have passed, the experience has left some of us with...

Assisting hurricane evacuees in houston and louisiana.

On Saturday, September 10, 2005, the California Emergency Medical Services Authority called. The US Surgeon General’s Office had requested that the state provide medical support in the Houston area to treat Hurricane Katrina evacuees. This population had critically depleted local medical resources and their ability to provide adequate care. By early Monday morning, an 11-member Kaiser Permanent...

Occupational Therapy in Wartime

On the first day of this war, I listened to the conversation of a colonel and a member of the Indian Civil Service. Both were retired men whose whole lives had been spent in unselfish service to others, who had brought particularly able minds to each problem that had occurred in their work. The colonel had started as a youngster in the South African War and his life work had been governed by hi...

Head Injuries in Wartime

assume he applied to present conditions. It is perhaps reasona head that in air bombing some 10 out of every 100 injuries wdlbehe a ^juries. Of these maybe three will be severe untreata ' f?ur, closed injuries (with no open wound), and three will P bounds of the skull, scalp and brain. It will be noticed that the incidence of closed injuries is placed higher than openl injuri ' *nay be surprisi...

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.