Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
Q. 50 you made an addition to Bellevue.
A. Yes. (laughter) I told Dr. Masters about a patient f had one tW
there. This little boy, I was told to give forty grains "aspirin Po
a little boy ei&t years old. They had had rounds. The
tor would head up the rounds, they got to each-bed and h
fleet of interns mund him finding out, while the visit
get the history fkom one of the students. It woiild be t
Then he would discuss it with them, ask questions about I know
little Irish girl that I knew at Bellem, a nurse, a po
wself-mthat was in Boston-and she wanted n~ to go t L park with her
and her beau. Her beau was Jewish and she was Irish. H ras scared to
death to go on the-what do you call the trains that go in the air and
go scooting mund in the pla~ parks, gay parks?
Q. Roller coasters?
A. Yes, that's right. He wouldntt get on one of those
She said well that's a nice way to treat lUss Tittm.
him alone, let him stay down here if he wants to. l1 "No ,
"it would be f'un if we could get him on there. l1 I don't
said to him. But he was the doctor that they b-d-in
on--they blmd him for somthing that he didntt do at a
about the patient, and she stood up for him fiat there
the other doctors. He never forgot her you see, that sh~
I happened to think about it in connection wtth the pati1
This was in Boston.
Q. Who wash?
A. It was Norm Bega Park I think. Then anyhow he cam (
on--oh she was so rean I could of batted her. I told he:
She yelled and she acrean&, she made him stt in the fI-01
scared to death. When he got m and the thing started, '
kt me out of here!" he said. You know that was cruel (
1 she made him.
raid, "Oh, let
', " she said,
LOW what she
le ward she was
that was wrong
fk.ont of all
lad. That ' s how
. . So he cam.
and when he got
o please shut-up.
seat and he was
st me out of here!
I' t you think?
Q. Yes, I'm not that fond of them.
A. But ahe had done him a good favor so. Now where are
on the boat arenlt we?
, we am still
Q. Yes, are we through with this lower deck?
A. Yes, now down below, thatfa storad mstly. matts 1
baggag when you-Oh, I d9dn1 t how I @ad w back stickir
course we didnl t have any baggage down there. Now that :
half mnths a year, or was, I don't know what it is now.
Q. The hosptkal operated two and a half mnths out of tl
A. Yes, the boat did. It was entirely paid for, that it
did have to work hard to get the mney to operate it. BI
Emus En as Dr. Bowditch, he was one of the visiting m
was another. Xhey were outstanding in their work.
7
re they put your
up--well, ;of
open two @d a
year?
himished. They
they did. . Such
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