LSUMC Student Plans a Study of Childbirth

              MEDICAL BEAT
LSUMC student
plans a study
of childbirth
The ethical considerations in selecting home
delivery or hospital delivery for birth will be
explored by a student of LSU School of Medicine
during a six-week study at Hastings Center in New
York this summer.
Deborah Thurber, who will begin her second year
of medical school in the fall, was invited to the
center after submitting the birth research pro-posal.
She will enter Hastings July 1 for six weeks
of study and consultation with philosophers and
medical and legal experts there. Afterward, she
will write a paper on her research subject.
Hastings is a private foundation that supports
conferences and seminars on medical ethics and
research by student interns from medical and law
schools.
Diabetes association
New officers of the Northwest Louisiana Diabe-tes
Association will be installed at the annual board
meeting at noon Thursday at Physicians and
Surgeons Hospital.
They are Don Duggan, president; Dr. Steven
Levine, president-elect; Barbara Sutton, secretary;
and Charles Boyd, treasurer.
Pam Sloan, outgoing president, will give the
annual report. Applications for scholarships to
Camp Whispering Pines, a camp for diabetic
children, will be considered.
Emergency care of deaf
A series of seminars dealing with emergency
care of the deaf will be held in Louisiana in June for
emergency care personnel.
The three-and-a-half-hour seminars will be pres-ented
by the Bureau of Emergency Medical Ser-vices,
Office of Hospitals, Department of Health
and Human Resources, and the Louisiana School
for the Deaf.
They are scheduled at E.A. Conway Hospital in
Monroe, June 7; Huey P. Long Memorial Hospital
in Pineville, June 8; Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital
in Independence, June 9; Washington-St. Tammany
Charity Hospital in Bogalusa, June 10; Charity
Hospital in New Orleans, June 11; South Louisiana
Medical Center in Houma, June 14; Dr. W.O. Moss
Regional Hospital in Lake Charles, June 18; Earl K.
Long Memorial Hospital in Baton Rouge, June 22;
and University Medical Center in Lafayette, June
23.
They will be free to emergency medical techni-cians,
emergency room nurses, emergency room
physicians and physician residents, X-ray per-sonnel
and other interested people. The National
Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians has
approved them for continuing education credits for
EMTs. Approval of Emergency Department
Nurses Association and American College of Emer-gency
Physicians has been applied for.
Participants must register through the regional
Emergency Medical Services councils. Northwest
Louisianians can register with the Northwest EMS
Foundation here.