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THE WAYNESVIUJ: MOUNT A!
'You Ought To Know My
Doctor' Is Interesting
Paper By Dr. Fred Brown
Editor's Note The following
- article was written by Dr. Fred
F- Brown, well known Baptist pas
; tor of Knoxville. He has many
friends in Haywood, as lie has
preached in a number of pulpits
In the countv. His tribute to the
piedical profession is so interest
ing that we are puhli-ihiug it in
full.
This article is not an attempt to j
eulogize the medical profession
1 Members of Hie inedc.v.l profession,
neither need nor de ne eulogies.!
They would ie:.nl :iuh an t rt'orL
from anyone.
The message i- an expie-.uon of
Bay sincere applet i.n ion ol a (ironp
of men to whom 1 loot, with con
fidence, a Kioiip i'i 11 whom 1
hold in the luetic-. - teem - our
physicians
YOU oiciu 10 KNOW
MY Dot' I OK
Somewhere 1 h.Ae read Hie -lory
of a teen-age lo.. vho lived 111 a
remote rural oinmuoitv . An ac
cident had li t t ln::i with a ions
injury to hi- spu: .111 iiijur.v at
tended by uureiievid siilliiin"..
The Hood t mi 111 1 v doctor told In-
parellls of a i-elehralt d -nr. i on u:
a distant city who could operate,
relieve the .-ull't 1111. and nr.iclir.tl
ly re-tore the hoy to iii.rt'i.-l li!e.
Tin laa.ilv v. ,i- very poor. but
nei .hbo.s m.ide ir. a purse -ullici-t-lit
to provide tran-porlal ion. The
local physician lelephonid the
surj.'i on and w.i- told to -end the
boy on then- would be no charge
for his service. The boy made the
journey to the distant city, and the
delicate operation was successful.
In due time the hoy returned to his
home, Family and friends met him
at the railroad station. As they
drove home the family plied him
with questions questions about
his journey questions about his
nurses questions about the hospi
tal questions about the .surgeon
When asked about the hospital the
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hoy roplid: "It wa- wonderful, hid
'.'ell cmsihi to M'l- 1:1.'. lloi'o.' '' !ie,
a-ked about t tie nur-i - "'I hi v. . re
U.! 1 ill i.i'.il cooil hill you on. lit to ei
my doctor. Vea oeuiit to know my
tloi tor.'"
We ale passing throloih a period
just now when some unkind and
unjust statements are beiny made
about the medical profession. Ke
ctntly a prominent man speaking
of the doctors of America used
words such as' "sellish." "mercen
ary." and other uncomplimeniary
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ye, To hnpo X that reporters gather around him to check on his reactions. One thing was cerbain-he
ilidn' vote fur the Communist Party ticket. Some 24,000,000 ballots were cat and the
Union was well out in front. The Social Democrats were not far behind. (International Radwphoto)
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The Mountaineer
Main Street Phone 700
eims. 1; seems to -have become
oiiielhju of an indoor sport in
i ''am quarters to pu-h our doc-rr-
..round. To such an attitude
ow.ird our phy: icians millions of
is nply: "You ought to know my
d.ocl or."
The medical profession is an
honorable profession. Its history of
constructive, sacrificial service to
sultering humanity answers all ad
verse criticism. And the spirit of
the physicians of the past the
spirit of faithful, heroic, unselfish
- rvice- is alive and manifest in
die lives and practice of our
American doctors today. All of us
know that there are quacks and
crooks amonK doctors just as there
are quacks and crooks in any
;;roup. 1 make bold to assert, how
ever, that no group in .society can
l ive a heller account of its sit w
ardship than the medical frater
nity As a Rioup they represent
thoroni'.h, scientific training, high
standards of ethics, and steadfast
loyally to their noble calling:
"Healing, humanity's hurt."
Personal Experience
As I think of the great number
of doctors whose knowledge and
skill have brought me and ment
hol s of my family through many
seiious irises physicians repre
senting surgery, internal medicine,
orthopedics, neurology, urology,
obstetrics, radiology, pediatrics,
eye, eat . nose and throat and den
tistry. 1 say of each of them: "You
outfit to know my doctor."
Some Observations
A group of us from Knoxville
have .-unimer cabins in a remote
leeiiou ol the East Tennessee
mountains, near the boundary of
the tli eat Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park While in our cabins
I one summer some
visiting in a home at the head of
a mountain cove found a boy who
was horribly club-footed. Immedi
ately we called an orthopedic sur
geon in Memphis, Tennessee, and
asked if he could do anything for
I he boy. Promptly Dr. Willis
Campbell I call his name because
he is now in the spirit world re
plied: "Bring him to me."
The boy was sent to Dr. Camp
bell's Clinic. The feet were
straightened, and after a few weeks
he was returned to the little moun
tain home wearing braces. When
Ihe time came for the removal of
the braces 1 took him to Memphis
and left him at the clinic, telling
him that I would call for hiin next
day. When 1 went by for him the
following morning he was in the
lobby of the clinic. The braces had
been removed and he was happy.
1 said to him, "We have a long,
hard drive ahead of us and must
get started." lie replied: "I want
to see Dr. Campbell before I fo."
I found the secretary and told her
that the boy insisted on seeing Dr.
Campbell. She went to the boy and
told him that Dr. Campbell was
operating and couldn't he disturb
ed. Then, noting the look of dis
appointment on his face, she said:
"Why do you want to see Dr. Camp
bell'.'" He replied: "I want to thank
him for straightening mv feet."
She threw her arms about himJ
drawing mm to her, and said: bo
on, boy, Dr. Campbell is as proud
of those feet as you are."
Thai hoy is now a school teacher.
He and many, many others think
of Dr. Willis Campbell with bound
less devotion and gratitude as they
unite in saying: "You ought to
of our wives ( know my doctor
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Such incidents are being repeal
ed across America every day. In
every city, village, and coi.nl ry
side of our nation these scenes are
being re-enacted continuously.
They are so familiar that they are
commonplace. We have witnessed
them so frequently that our eyes
are blurred to the magnificent
spirit which they represent.
The circle of suffering is always
changing, but it is always full.
Those in that circle represent every
age, color, creed, and siauon oi
life. Our physicians spend their
lives in that circle where pain and
anxiety form an atmosphere that
is heavy and tense. Calmly, intel
ligently .courageously, they wage a
truceless warfare with the grim,
threatening figure of death. It
would be timely and appropriate
for the people 4f America to catch
the spirit of the little Scotch com
munity so beautifully pictured in
Ian MacClaren's "Heside the Hon
nie Briar Hush," and applaud our
doctors.
If the grateful voices of those in
hospitals, clinics, and homes of
suffering where faithful physicians
quietly minister, were all blended
together they would form a mighty
chorus sounding across our nation
lifting the refrain: "You ought to
know my doctor."
Paralyzed Veterans
rut Back On Feet
MINNEAPOLIS ( UP A couple
of University of Minnesota medi
cal scientists have treated paralyzed
veterans, with rehabilitation re
ported for three-fourths of them.
Drs. A. B. Baker and Joe R.
Brown summed, up in a Veterans
Administration pamphlet their
several years' experience at the
Minneapolis veterans hospital.
Chill VA medical director Dr.
Paul I! Maptiusun .in a foreword.
,ii nibed .the report'as "one of the
ino'l encouraging pieces of infor
mation ever published by Ihe Vel
ti.u Uhuii. titration."
iiakti and Brown say that dur
w a Iwo-aiid -a-half year period.
uaiiont.'. were treated, wilh i;f.l
hi log released to their hoineLi and
'"ti considered to have completed
ireallnelit.
Sui.ie of the veteran; had been
!,or.. iialiied as long as HO years.
Oulv 10 per cent oi' those treated
f.,ih-d lo ri spund in some way.
Sour, were able lj walk aj".aiu while
oljii i's wi re well eiiouyh lo woi k.
lietoveiy time is longer for older
oalicnt.; and tho e hh prolonged
disabilities.
liakcr and Brown said the peed
for early treatment is indicated be
cause the maximum benefit was
attained by those who had shorter
disability duration, wilh a v lu v
in ; only a slight effect.
The pair claimed that establish
ment ol similar programs through
out the nation would save more
than $1,000, 000 in one hospital in
Ihe first year alone.
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58 persons aboard the plane, which
was. en route from Rome to
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To carry out findings of an Emergency Board appointed
by the President of the United States under the National
Railway Labor Act the nation's railroads necessarily
agreed with the Non-Operating Railway Labor Unions to
establish a 5-day-40-hour work week effective September
1, 1949. s
. This will require the closing on Saturdays and Sundays
of many freight stations and offices heretofore open to the
public on the Southern as well as on all other railroads
throughout the counfey so that employees generally may
be given two consecutive days off each week. Under e
settlement, the employees will receive for five days wor
the equivalent of wages formerly paid for six days yw
President Truman's Emergency Board points out that the
shorter work week is in keeping with the increasing trenn
in industry, banking and business generally.
For the railroad industry, which must keep the train
running day and night every day in the week, the cnan?
Will create many difficult problems. The Southern,
your whole-hearted co-operation and sympathetic un
standing, pledges to make the changeover wM -possible.
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