A report on the scientific work of the surgical staff of the Women's Hospital in the State of New York.

  • New-York Woman's Hospital
Date:
1918
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Credit: A report on the scientific work of the surgical staff of the Women's Hospital in the State of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DAILY CLINICS. BY DR. E, W. BULLARD. Adjunct Assistant Surgeon, Woman’s Hospital. + THE Outdoor Department of the Woman’s Hospital is composed of five distinct organizations. These are: 1. The Gynecologic Clinic. 2. The Clinic of the “Follow Up System.” 3. The Obstetric Clinic. 4. The Cystoscopic Clinic. 5. The Electro-therapeutic and X-ray Clinic. I will confine this brief article to a consideration of the gyneco- logic service only. Each of the five attending surgeons of the hospital, has attached to his service an out-patient clinic of two sessions a week, presided over by a chief of clinic with one or two assistants. There is a sixth out-patient gynecologic clinic in no wise differing from its fellows except that its operative cases are assigned in rotation to the serv- ices of the attending surgeons. During the past year, out-patients have made us oss2 visits. Out of this number there were 3094 new patients, and 935 women were referred to the wards for operations or observations. In reducing these totals, it may be seen that at each of the two daily sessions an average of sixteen patients attend, five of whom are new. A de- tailed study of the attendance shows that the number of new patients is steadily increasing. A woman desiring treatment, presents herself to the registrar in the waiting room any day, Sundays and holidays excepted, between 9.00 and 10.00 A. M. or between 2.00 and 3.00 P.M. The registrar makes a brief record of her financial and social status and decides as to whether she is worthy of free treatment. The woman, if acceptable, is then sent to one of the physicians who takes her medical history. She is next conducted by a nurse to one of the four individual dress- ing rooms and later put on an examining table. Each table is iso- lated from the rest of the room by curtains suspended from overhead rods, it foots to a large glazed window and a treatment table stands close by. After the patient’s examination and treatment she returns
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