FRONT LINE DOCTOR...4
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1954.
CASE HISTORY
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Average stay in hospital is seven to 12 months. And when they leave they are ready for werk next day.
Seventy-four pervent Dre dmployed. They and mostly fully
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'Hopeless'
was the word
10 years ago
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Nor IN The fact til f 38 year-old Mr Piske, of w Michell-walk, Amersham, x1re was a bank clerk he fore the war, is a bank elek ngain.
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shop gainst hive to beconie outcasts, m tilgan
Jan Gjerman.. The wanted by society, the despan
the detors?
Not until you realise wind eas
happened to Geoffrey Fiske
the than ten years ago ora
a vinter day in 1843. He la ment
was a tank emmander une Southern Italy patrulling
meros a field near the Mom stated
River
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of us life renalns to him.
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despring 1-have-had- attitude, the feeling of hopriesa
which
the dut misery
enguits an as St., NI as he the realises what has happened to
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Bim trundlag slut preparing for heavy casualties. Anash in a Anaing them awe bound to be wheelchar CVILN the note strious spinai res woul
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ever bekeve that befory the way the wound he n which has
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'Crusader'
paralysed bin
the wart down
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with pratalysis,
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altitude Eskar
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People paralysed as Tela, 3 Bem into te ittle chate of survival then
30 percent of the wie dund
within three years
Thank Guttman
Teetere
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it was that of
than it pre
For he was the hopeles
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treatment.
To
But for that doctor the Germans foolishly drove away to Britain I should never have been alive today
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the
Ministry
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the pitfalls is that they come- timés fall into the habit of ex- pecting charity.
'Poppa'
IKE the man who came
L"
wheeling along the corrido and buttonholed him. He was coming along nicely and spoke cheerfully to Gutunan-whom all the patients cali Poppa.
"Could you do me a favour," he asked. "When 1 was R right I used to go to a piy and have a glass of stout every night. Could have a glass of heer every night in hospita!?" Guttman replied: "Who puid for the sicut you bad?”
"Well, I did," said the man in the wheelchair in a surprised tone of voice.
"Well, you get some money now, don't you?" asked Gutt- "What's stopping you buying yourself 23 gloss of stat?
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That sentogly stern mower jerks self-pitying patient back to a feeling of indepen- dence and normality. When lust seen the man was wheeling off to buy himself a beer In tho nearest puu.
It was wo Ye
of This regline which turned wounded,
paralyze ex-corporal Fiske boto a surbuint, broad-shoulde ered, contunted gardener.
A hobby
LWERY slay, even in winter. Fiske in wheeling about his garden The paths arc wider to allow his chair to pass easily and some of his garden- Ing implements
DR. GUTTMAN Of to Pakistan,
There is only one aspect of He welch he has und his
upsetting. He finds going on holiday airial, because hotel proprietors, when they discover hats "disability. often refum! 10 let him and his wife stay.
"They sold they were full up." he said philosophically. " suppose you can't blame them. After all, chaps like me are n bh more trouble than ordinary people,"
When I looked at the cheer- ful buti disabled-for-le tank hit commander who hrud been by two Germon shells I did not share his tolerant view. I did blame them -- bitterly. And I BED SUIT Host people will.
Gulimah, who has had 1,000 pellents through his hands in ten years half of them ex- Servicemen--realised that situa- tions like that must arise.
have long bandles so he can reach in the W
backs of beds.
"The beasts!'
JITH his background 1 is met unnatural that he accepta such incidents calmly. For in stance, in his imperfect but fery married before he Wae English, hia only comment Oft posted abroad, helps him,
but the Nazis is: "They were
Sometimes
he
his wife.
whom
mostly he does the job himself. bumptious, terrible beasts."
He became
naturalised and hus been
the
souls
of
in
His work is just 03 re- markably humdrum. He wheels Briton in 1947, Guttman
beloved that al-
himself out to his car with its awarded the O.B.E. Last month though the surgeal and meriwad
hand
Ha he flew to Pakistan to adviso special
controls. the prevent
the paralysed draughtsmen in
of rebuilding build-up was important to niso
lives and Joints contracting of Works. Others have become climbs into it without assistance on
wrecked was the psychological appronil huscles and
and drives to Barclays bank at wro Chesham. There another wheel. paraplegies there. - give the patient eerent f he later invented a bed eyele lawyers.
The cycling nanements of the the soul.
But as you sit with him Jio Guttman recalls that when chair is waiting for him. Nothing could restore eontrol feet
made by
Tadala
wheels himself to specially his office, where a water-colour of Newlyn, in Cornwall, hangs To the lugs.
But a complete re. rotated with the patients' hands, he first suggested that
on the cream
am wall, and henr adjustment of the patient's whole If the paralysis were not com- plegics should work he received made desk and works all day.
talk with such crusading The rest of his life is just as him attitude was reessary to a plete, efforts and very success indulgent smiles"the fort
de to smile only the English con
the
people he has life of the
the irreparably fut risk, kon
back to life.
you wounded
man.
make the palents, walk again. Rive"-but tolerant smiles only normal. It his wife wishes to fire about
go out for the evening like any brought
can make reallee the Nazis were not only Before Guttman's
do Uns involved the further net as an incentive to the per- other busband he
Jewish doctor from paraplegies were kept ing development and use of the buck Sisteri
hanself supper and go to bed beasta. And here is today's sown in plaster, semetimes en muscles They walk awkwardly, Breslau.
If he fools tired. Sometimes They do balance sheek-
He case chin to the m a surgical bin they still walk.
they drive to the pictures. ly the same way so in
peuple sarcophagus.
Only seven percent of para- wheels in his chair and sits in a the dance
rumba-by mailing If they sat up at all they were the hips.
sent at the end of a row. plagis die. Jopled helpest by leather End steel
Their
SPORT The corects
This corsets, stand-by of baffleck ind dis bridged the gap between the doctors desling with medical and the psychological mayed paraplegies were inkt aside in treatment. Archery and netball Guttinum's hospitaf.
from wheelchairs udied more inches to the chest muscles. It also gave patients mobilty and the opportunity to forget then disability.
This is Lady Boyle talking to one of Dr Guttman's prettiest patients, Pamela Russell, on site appeared on TV. Crippled in a riding accident. Miss Russell was in her wheelchair. Iter few minutes on TV, her doctors say, have worked "psychologi- cal wonders" and new further programmes are being arranged
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Self-reliant
His view
WHO that her muscles should be caller in
to perform the functions of thes that had become paralysed This
As
Was next.
Happy life
THE next problem was-how plan u happy te for They must use the lear
would encourage the patient, to 17 become self-reliant as quickly as possible.
theen.
It might take years but it had which dated In their depress
of in-
to be done, With nagging, union clouded brains. They must flogging
the little ruquer 12,eir patience
feriority. German doctor set in work
card.
able.
But
and
They were also fools to lose men like Poppa Guttman.
(THIS ENDS THE SERIES: "FRONT LINE DOCTOR")
CHAPMAN PINCHER writes on SLEEP
DON'T COUNT ON COUNTING
SHEEP - JUST
R-E-L-A-X
who sil quietly
[NSOMNIA is one of the So do men
commonest complaints smoking a just pipe.
A hot bath just before bed confided to the doctor,
relaxing
both
the
Food is, in fact, a naturn) and effective sedative, 09 middle- aged men who cal too bearly at lunchtime know. So a glass of sweetened milk by the bed- side may help to prevent filful dicep.
See that your bed is properly made, even if it means gotting out to remake it.
occur
TENSED MUSCLES
Psychiatrists say that anxiety,
forslag
in rare cases, is helpful by yel except
his Army hut warts to put his
They must be scially accept-where that part of the brain muscles and mind,
music theories into practice,
Listening to soothing controlling sleep is damaged, WORK He decided his patients would
was the
in with eyes closed should prepare Answer whit is never a disease
you for bed. By resting be able to do everything them this. Guttman and his fellow itself.
your eyes you rest the brain. selves, dress, wash, and transfer specialists point out to patients themselves from bad be wheel that their legs may not be any Unless the sleeplessness
Such simple things account chair and back agam.
Even the traditional trick of more use to them,
for occasional sleeplessness, but their
some obvious counting sheep is now in dls- To do this they had
when the Insomnia use the heads and their hands give them is due to
as repute 45 make
physical causes, such broadest masele of the back the chance to
a soporific. Auy almost nightly a deeper cause living a
involving deliberate must be sought. the
or late-night activity latissimus dorsi which and influence their own future. Toutside noise derives its nerve supply from
So as soon as a patient is well ten, it is always the symp- visual imagery may delay the the highest point of the spinal enough, up goes his wh
wheelchair
tom of some other complaint onset of sleep by alerting
brain. to the workshops. There he con So he gave his patients chest learn watch and clock repairing, which in sometimes physical
It is helpful to try relaxing expanders and told them to get draughtsmanship, cobbling and but is more often psycholo- to work to develop strong-man woodwork.
the muscles deliberately when which can tense the muscles He can also learn gical.
a# the mind, L the muscles. When their muscles shorthand and typing
you cannot get off
to sleep. well First let the lower jaw and face commonest of these causes. began to bulge they enabled the take courses in accountancy.
Fallure into
properly SHED WORRIES
to sleep slacker
Expression upright without As soon as patient to sit
he has mastered
you which would make
look breeds further anxiety, whic any
of these subjects he is "BALANCE was his next--and encouraged to go out to work. You must be emotionally pre- vacant if anyone could see you. may aggravate the insomna.
Actually this type of insomnia greatest-problem. The art of The start of this scheme was pared for sleep as well balancing
performed
Then try letting the muscles is rarely harmful in itself-bro tired. one morning physically messages from the joints to the when a laundry van drew up advise that as far as possible of the arms and legs relax untit vided the sufferer can be con- brain which in turn regulates outside
the spinal centre 11 you should ched your worries they feel almost numb. At the vinced that there is no need to the muscles, But these signals Stoke Mandeville. Half a dozen before you shed your clothes. same time try lo convince your worry about it
Half wheel chairs, wert
Chronic undersleeping does do not travel to the brain of a men in
an hour deliberately self that you will stoep.
not lead to a nervous "break- the pushed into it and driver off to spent slowing down from paraplegic.
for down and doen not affect per- Guttman got over this by in nearby radio factory.
Going to bed famished There pace of the day before you go placing a mirror
fear that a late-night snack may formance of duties, except Iri in front of they sat in wheelchairs assemb- to bed should pay off in counder them with
causo bad dreams can also cause cases where sustained effort in sleep. physiothermplat ling radio sets. standing behind.
From this start Guttman's
sleeplessness, Hunger alerts the needed for a long time-as, for Gradually the patients learned patients have taken on all kinds Many women unconsciously brain and an empty stomach instance, by acroplane pilots on to balance by sight instead of of jobs. Some have passed do this when they go through undergoes "hunger contractiu" long missions. And it does not
seem to shorten Life, feeling.
examinations to become their nightly cosmetic routino, which may keep you awake.
corsets.
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