Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Selfless Idealism Stuart Auerbach of n e Washington Post has come up with more evidence of the selfless idealism of our doctors and dentists: “Medical and dental students...
...Hardy said...
...In our Western society, it should not become a technique for exploitation of the public...
...Hardy had signed a release form authorizing the use of the corneas of Har ;’s eyes as well as his kidneys...
...Today, Hardy will be buried with honors normally reserved for officers killed in the line of duty...
...Medical Examiner’s Office, which reported that it did not have the body...
...What the acupuncturists may not realize at first is that the doctors are trying to protect them from all those problems that come with having nothing left after the $41,000 is gone...
...What transpired between Hardy’s entering the hospital last week and his burial today ‘is one of the most tragic and confusing series of events I’ve ever heard a police family go through,’ Police Chief Maurice Cullinane said yesterday...
...The police chief said he decided yesterday morning, however, to make a special exception in Hardy’s case ‘because the Hardy family has gone through so much anxiety the past few days.’ Cullinane’s decision came shortly before a local activist, Goldie Johnson, held a press conference attacking Cullinane for ‘this insensitive “Meanwhile, the District’s chief medical examiner, Dr...
...On Monday, Mrs...
...Early Lee Trice, who claimed reimbursement from Medicaid for having extracted 38 teeth from one patient...
...Hardy that while her husband was on the operating table his heart had stopped beating, but had started up agajn...
...From the April 1975 issue) Some Golden Oldies and Our Favorite Medical Scandal This month the first two pages of this section consist of classic tales of the medical profession culled from past issues...
...Hardy, who apparently went through considerable anxiety since her husband entered the hospital,’ the spokeswoman said...
...The human jaw contains 32 teeth...
...Tidbits and Outrages Selfless Idealism Stuart Auerbach of n e Washington Post has come up with more evidence of the selfless idealism of our doctors and dentists: “Medical and dental students have told Congress they strongly object to a bill that would force them to pay back some of the federal funds given their schools to pay for their education...
...At that point, Mrs...
...There is no room in my economy,’ he continued, ‘for the demands this bill is trying to force upon me.’ ” (From the September 1973 issue) Medical Care For those who missed that masterpiece of black comedy, Paddy Chayevsky’s Hospital with George C. Scott, here is another version from Michael Kiernan of the Washington Star: “Stanford Hardy, a District policeman, drove himself to George Washington University Hospital 10 days ago to undergo an operation on his knee...
...But police officials told her that this was against a policy allowing only an officer killed in the line of duty to be buried in full dress uniform...
...A third-year dental student at the University of California at Los Angeles, Jeffrey White, promised that ‘any sum of money which I as a dentist must pay the federal (government) after graduation will ultimately be paid by my patients.’ “Another dental student, Gerald Shinkawa of San Francisco, complained that he would have ‘the problem’ of passing ‘the costs to the patients’ and then justifying them to dental insurance companies...
...Doctor’s Difficulties All of us who spend every dollar we make can sympathize with the plight of the 35-year-old Florida physician described in the March 1974 issue of Medical Economics...
...The heart was found to be completely normal,’ Luke said...
...Luke attributed the cause of death to ‘cardiac arrest’ (stoppage of the heart) which took place during surgery...
...In addition to the problems that arise from having nothing left over, the doctor has to face a shortage of garage space: he owns two late model Lincoln Continentals and one 1974 Pontiac Firebird...
...That afternoon, Mrs...
...Hardy said, she called the hospital...
...Hardy said, she called several friends and proceeded to George Washington University Hospital to find out where her husband’s body was...
...I never knew they were going to remove his eyes,’ she said...
...A doctor’s assistant was very apologetic to me and said the body had been transferred to the city morgue for an autopsy.’ So Mrs...
...It’s regrettable that things did not go more smoothly for Mrs...
...He is earning $75,000 a year and spending the $41,000 that’s left after taxes and premium payments on his $250,000 life insurance...
...The hospital spokeswoman said the hospital staff would ‘extensively review’ circumstances surrounding the death...
...On Tuesday, while the autopsy was being performed, Mrs...
...Although doctors and dentists are among the nation’s highest paid professionalsdoctors earn an average income after expenses of $52,000 a year, dentists net $37,500-and are the only professions to receive direct federal subsidies for their education, the students said they could not afford the added $8,000 debt the new law would entail...
...The doctors solemnly intoned: “In China, acupuncture is not practiced for money...
...He appeared dead to me.’ That day and Saturday, he was registering ‘brain activity,’ according to a hospital spokeswoman...
...Late Monday afternoon, Mrs...
...Hardy did not understand what Y corneal transplant entails,’ the spokeswoman said...
...Hardy visited her husband and found him ‘all taped up to a respirator...
...The next day, Friday, Mrs...
...Hardy said yesterday...
...Perhaps Mrs...
...It’s a way of giving special tribute to a man or woman killed whlle on duty,’ Cullinane said...
...Hardy called the police, who checked with the D.C...
...The best one we’ve heard lately concerns a Maryland dentist, Dr...
...From the September 1974 issue...
...It is reassuring to know, however, that in the midst of problems such as these, dedicated physicians squeeze out a bit of their valuable time to protect the public...
...After the operation, during which Hardy was under general anesthesia, ‘the doctor called and told me that my husband’s heart had stopped beating, but that it had started up again and the doctor said they were optimistic that he would be all right,’ Mrs...
...Hardy decided she wanted her husband buried in his police uniform...
...He also bought a $27,000 boat and spends $1,000 a year on golf and $100 a month for heating his pool...
...For Hardy’s wife, Ellen, and his four young children, the nightmare began a week ago Thursday when a doctor informed Mrs...
...The doctor has to make do with a home with two fireplaces, eight TV sets, and a swimming pool...
...Hardy’s kidneys have been transplanted, the hospital spokeswoman said, and the corneas have been given to an eye bank...
...It was the only thing keeping him alive...
...Hardy said, she ‘signed a piece of paper allowing them to remove my husband‘s kidney...
...Hardy, 3 1 , of 2744 75th Ave., Landover, had walked into the hospital a day earlier for an operation on his knee, which had been troubling him since August 1973 when he injured himself in a minor scooter accident...
...The hospital spokeswoman said yesterday that Mrs...
...Thus a recent AMA panel warned against quackery among America’s acupuncturists...
...Late that night we were told that the body was still at the hospital and that it would be transferred to the coroner’s office the next day,’ Mrs...
...James Luke, said yesterday his autopsy of Hardy found nothing to explain why Hardy’s heart stopped...
...On Sunday, shortly past noon, Hardy was officially pronounced dead...
...Hardy said, she ‘waited and waited and waited’ for word about when her husband’s body would be ready for removal from the hospital...
Vol. 8 • October 1976 • No. 8
