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Published on Friday of Each Week at
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman
Editor and Publisher
Sa.OO p r year by mail. 10 cents per copy
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Doctor Says Patienc? and Understanding
Still Among Best Medicines for Mankind
A Nova Scotian now practicing in Wakefield, Rhode Island, Dr.
Edmund A. Brasset reveals here his personal creed. This is
one of a series of statements prepared for broadcast by thinking,
useful people in all walks of life. The program is presented by
Edward R. Murrow over KIB1L at 3:55 and 10:30 Monday thru
Friday.
By EDMUND A. BRASSET
Physician
Author of
"A Doctor's Pilgrimage"
Any doctor who is moderately
active sees, in the course of a
year, at last a couple of thou
sand people in his office. In al
most eighteen years of practice
I hn\ e had a good many people
sit alongside my desk and tell
me of their illnesses, anxieties,
and often personal tragedies.
From this store of experience
I have learned at least one basic
truth, namely, that every man,
woman and child on this earth,
regardless of his or her station
in life, regardless of racial ori
gin. regardless even of whether
he or she is moral or unmoral
according to accent:d standards,
is worth} of and should be treat
ed with respect, as befits the es
sential dignity of man.
The human body is the most
ingeniously contrived mechan
ism and most beautiful structur
on earth. It is hard for the per
son who has not spent years of
arduous work in the study of the
medical sci’ rices to begin to ap
preciate this. Every bone is a
masterpiece of archit:etural de
sign. Every organ is a marvel of
efficiency which no engineer can
begin to equal. The smallest
gland is a chemical plant that
can outperform the greatest
man-made laboratory in th.
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world. If all the volumes of med
ical literature in the world were
gathered together they would fill
la overflowing the greatest ol'
skyscrapers -and yet we have
just scratched the surface of
what there is to know about the
human bf»dy. And over and
above this complex perfection,
man has something more. Tin re
is a non-mechanical and non
mateiial element in him that is
not found in any other form of
life that we know. We cannot
see it and cannot even begin to
understand it. but it is there and
it raises man to a dignity above
the brute.
In a small way a doctor shares
the lives of a great many people.
He knows their troubles, worries
with them, does iiis best to make
them well and happy and is glad
v, i.o them win.: in succeeds. A
good doetbr is. w. h: i toe limits
i.i. ms iv. n n id, the serv.au ol
the humol st individu.il who
needs his s rvnees. 1 cannot sa>
that 1 have liked every sarnie
man and woman 1 have m. i
iigii I have iik
—but liking ha-, nothing to uo
with respect, there are people
who. become hypocrites, liars,
thieves ano murderers just the
same they are human brings. I
iiunii. lhut I cannot help hating
such people at times, but it
doesn't last. Hatred cannot last
unless it is continuously nour
ished ae.d stimulated.
1 believe in God and that He
matt, the earth and set it to
spinning and circling around the
sun. J know too that the spin
ning earth is not intended to
turn forever. Little by little it is
slow mg cio .en. A day will come,
perhaps a million years from
now , when it will no longer turn
and everything, will be still.
Long before that happens all the
races of man will haw. disap
peared lroni tii o face of the
earl', and with him all t lie
hi has n ade his cities
and roads, his machines and
books .But even when the last
sound made by the last living
creature has died away and the
cold silence of eternity has sot
tl d upon this planet, I believe
somehow that th spirit of man
will live.
Pal rick Seferovich, 5 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Scfero
vch. had his tonsils out Friday
in Seward General Hospital.
"Tie was a mighty good boy,”
nurses said.
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BAYVIEW AND SANATORIUM
SCHOOLS CLOSED MAY 16
Territorial Schools at Bay
viow and Seward Sanatorium
closed May 16, with enrollments
for tlu> past year (It) and 74
respective ly.
The five-teacher staff wilt
spend vacation in various ways.
Mrs. Frampton and Mrs. Borden
will go Outside for summer ses
sion work. Miss Case will at
tend the University of Alaska.
Miss Busko plans a trip Outside.
Mrs. Hager, principal of Bay
view since its reopening live
years ago and of the Seward
Sanatorium School since its be
ginning three years ago, plans
to make her home in Anchorage
about July 1.
During the five years at Bay
view 150 pupils have enrolled.
Ot these 57 have withdrawn,
26 passed the el.mentarv exam
inations and in many cases have
continued in high school, 6!)
have been enrolled this past
school year.
The Seward S a n a t o r i u m
School, started as an experiment
Mr. and Mrs. Sigvold I. Julius
sen arc parents of a baby boy,
Richard Erie, born May 17 in
S. ward General Hospital. The
young man weighed 8 pounds 1 1
ounces at birth.
Mrs. Juliussen is the former
Marjorie Malcolm.
three yeras ago, has increased
its staff to two teachers. Pri
marily the school was intended
for the instruction of patients
of school age through the 16th
year. This year there have been
47 above school age, the oldest
being 64.
The two school staffs met with
Miss Case Wednesday and pre
sented Mrs. Hager with a fare
well gift.
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