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Doctor . . . doctor ... doctor, please."
"Huh? Oh, you mean me," blushed the new intern at Touro infirmary.
He's one of 20 newly graduated medical school students who are getting accustomed to their new names and new duties as doctors this week at the hospital.
Well-scrubbed and energetic, the young doctors begin a year's internship, or "beside teaching" in medical jargon, under the watchful eye of hospital staff doctors and resident doctors.
And after the year of hospital service, under approval of the American Medical Association, these same young men may enter the ranks of the private general practitioner.
Doctors choosing to specialize in surgery, pediatrics or any other medical field, will follow the first year with one to four years of resident service and training at the hospital. * * *
BUT IT'S that first year that's most intriguing. Although the doctors became familiar with the hospital and hospital duties as medical students, they were never officially on full-time duty.
That full-time duty means sometimes seven days a week. An intern's working day may begin at 7 a. m. one day and end at noon the following day. The hours at night, however, will be recorded as on-call duty whereby the intern goes home to bed but listens for the ring of the telephone that could call him back to duty at any hour.
On the other hand, when he gets off at noon that next day, he may not have to report back in his fresh, white uniform until a day and a half later.
Interns work on holidays and at night. They may be found in a maternity ward, in a private room, in a children's ward, in the operating room or on an ambulance.
THE NEW doctor must spend at least three months in medicine, three months in surgery, one month in obstetrics, one month in pediatrics and the remaining four months in elective service.
The new doctor's day is filled with activity. When not assisting doctors, treating patients, checking charts with nurses or making the ward rounds, he'll be at intern conferences or staff meetings.
At Touro, the intern must spend time in the hospital's charity division in both in-patient and out-patient clinics and treat and care for private patients. He will encounter a number of variety of medical cases, possibly the greatest variety he will ever see in his medical career.
PHOTO: STUDENT NURSE BECKY MASON meets DR. A. J. COLLETT in the ward where the new doctor will serve.; DRS. RONALD LUBRITZ and JOSE DELGADO
face their first dilemma, a reluctant young patient
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| Title | 20 doctors-to-be start break-in at Touro |
| Contact Information | John P Isché Library - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans - 433 Bolivar St. New Orleans, LA 70112 ~ Send inquiries to digitalarchives@lsuhsc.edu |
| Subject |
Internship and Residency Touro Infirmary |
| Call Number | 1959 p98-99 |
| Description | Newspaper clipping |
| Notes |
Includes photos |
| Publisher |
New Orleans States-Item |
| Date | 1959-07-01 |
| Type | Image |
| Format | TIFF |
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| Source | John P Isché Library - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans ~ www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSC_NCC.php?CISOROOT=%2FLSUHSC_NCC |
| Coverage-Spatial | New Orleans (La.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1959 |
| Rights | Use is restricted to IP address of LSUHSC - New Orleans |
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