THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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SALVAGING LIVES
< By Roslyn Hera. Acting Reha
bilitation Director. National Tub
erculosis Association).
Getting a man back on his feet
sifter a long siege of illness such
as tuberculosis is no mean task;
nor is it a one-man job. The re
sponsibility cannot be tackled
singlehanded by the physician, by
the social worker,by the commun
jty welfare society or by any one
of the other agencies with whom
the patient comes in contact. All
too often there is the feeling that
of course the patient needs super
vision and care while he is sick
hut when it comes to readjust
ment to economic and family life
upon recovery from his long ill
ness, he should work out his own
salvation.
ine majority oi sanatorium pa
tients are young, with limited ed
ucation. The greatest number
come from unskilled occupations.
Many of the young people have
never worked. They need assist
ance in choosing a suitable type
of job and in getting placed.
Those from the unskilled labor
group must, in general, switch to
lighter jobs. How shall they go
about this?
Taxpayers spend millions of dol
lars on caring for the 100,000 pa
tients who are discharged from
sanatoria each year. Working at
any job. regardless of the indi
vidual's abilities or the physical
strain involved may lead to re
lapses which occur all too fre
quently. Why not keep a man
well, once sums of money
have been invested in his cure?
This is no sob story appeal but a
matter of dollars and cents. Is
there a soluton? Perhaps not for
each one of the 100,000, but there
are some rays of hope.
For our purposes we shall con
sider rehabilitation as the restor
ation of an individual to that
place in society for which he is
best suited and where he can
make his best contribution to the
general welfare. Tuberculosis is
: a long-tme illness, hence why
shouldn’t rehabilitation begin dur
ing the days of ccring and thus
cut down on the time after dis
charge otherwise necessary to pre
pare for a job? Occupation helps
to reduce discouragement, rest
lessness caused by inactivity, and
worry about the future. Reha
bilitation programs are aimed to
,give the patient new' food for
, thought, encouragement and as
many activities to fill free hours
as are advised by the physician.
The many phases of a typical pro
ject involve the coordinated ac
tion of a number of agents.
The National Tuberculosis As
sociaton has been sponsoring for
several years now a many sided
rehabilitation program. The di
rectors of the National Adult Ed
ucation and Mental Hygiene or
ganizations thoroughly agree with
the tuberculosis association in em
phaszing the necessity of giving
the patient mental as well as phy
s i c a 1 treatment. Educational
classes are of primary importance
in training patients for the new
job. While new hope based on a
better outlook for the future,
makes for peace of mind by giv
ing the patient constructive work
which he can capitalize on later,
a better mental adjustment can
be achieved. Senatorium routine
sees to it that there is plenty of
physical rest but such rest is fre
quently not enough. Mental rest
; plays a role in recovery vyhich
cannot be ignored.
As an essential first step in re
habilitation,Donald Paterson, psy
chology professor of the Univer
sity of Minnesota, has pointed out
the necessity for individual diag
nosis. This covers vocational
guidance based on information as
1 to the family, vocational, educa
tional, and avocational backgro
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I und of the patient, knowledge of
abilities determined by vocation
al "ptitudc tests, c^nd conferences
i wi h the physician and the pa.i
1 ent. A general program may then
be m ppod oui fnr etch prtier.t
1 consistent with his interests, apti
tudes. and persona! characteris
tics.
If training is recommended, the
next step is enrollment in the
proper classes in the sanatorium
educational scheme. Even the
fact that a patient is confined to
bed need not, in some hospitals,
prevent him from studying. Out
standing examples of the use of
the radio as an educational tool
may be found at Saranac Lake,
New York and Mountain Sanator
ium, Hamilton, Ontario in Cana
da. Patients own radios or ear
phones enable them to “attend”
the "classes.” The range of cour
ses now’ offered in sanatoria pre
sents a surprising variety—aca
demic work, commercial, and di
verse vocational courses from
dressmaking to laboratory tech
nician.
upon cuscnarge a paueni may
be ready for placement. For
those in need of vocational cour
ses, the rehabilitation bureaus es
tablished in all but three states
offer an unusual opportunity.
Federal and state funds finance
this service which enables the re
habilitation departments to retain
people “who have been disabled
. by accident or otherwise." Many
, bureaus will not accept an appli
, cant until he is discharged. Tracy
Copp of the Federal Vocational
Rehabilitation Service, however,
has given examples of states whi
ch have not confined their work
to arrested cas:s. Instead, they
feel as we do, that training begun
in the sanatorium cuts short the
training time necessary after dis
charge and diverts attention from
brooding about symptoms and
worry over the future.
After training is completed the
next stop is, of course, placement
in a job where the acquired know
ledge can be applied. Here again
a federal-state agency steps In.
.The U. S. Employment Service
has affiliated services in 37 states.
These are free employment bur
eaus, many of which have special
| departments or agents to handle
so-called handicapped people. In
his article, W. Frank Persons,
Director of the U. S. Employment
Service, gives his bureau’s “phil
sophy governing its placement ol
handicapped persons generally ,
. . . that the applicant must
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be considered in terms of his
specific abilities for the particu
lar work to be done.” He feels
that. ‘‘The tuberculosis applicant
is entitled, along with every
worker who possesses a special
group of problems, to the time
necessary to give him a specializ
ed placement service.” Such an
' enlightening attitude is certainly
I encouraging since it promises con
, tinued effort in the direction of
, overcoming employer prejudice
! against hiring the ex-pateint.
The public health nurse and the
social worker are important not
only through their family visits
during the patient’s sanatorium
! stay but in their follow-up after
! discharge.
Taxes pay for most of the san
atorium care, for the federal
agencies mentioned, and for some
; of the public health nursing ac
j tivities. But the coordination of
the various activities to form a
well-rounded rehabilitation pro
gram is a special job that in var
ious localities is the task of a
well-trained counsellor and liason
! officer. Christmas Seals help to
pay for such rehabilitation direc
tors, and for the many-sided re
habilitation program of the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association.
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