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A Very Special Hospital
Mrs. Mortimer explains why nursing at East Grinstead was the peak of her career!
The Guinea Pig Club
Mrs. Mortimer recalls how the name came about.
Socializing With Patients
Mrs. Mortimer shares her experience socializing with the patients of East Grinstead and the fond memories she has to this day.
The Doctors of East Grinstead
Mrs. Mortimer expresses the respect given to the doctors by the patients.
Caring for the Burned Patients
Mrs. Mortimer describes the process of treating the severely burned patients.
Different Types of Skin Grafts
Mrs. Mortimer describes the skin grafts performed by the doctors and how experimenting with the patients on all parts of their bodies was accepted.
More Than An Orthopedic Hospital
Mrs. Mortimer shares a story of witnessing her first amputation of a patient’s leg and her feeling of weakness in the operating room.
The Decision to go to East Grinstead
Mrs. Mortimer tells of her decision to work as an operating room nurse alongside Dr. McIndoe at East Grinstead, all the time wondering if she could stand to care for such badly wounded patients in such a unique hospital environment.
Young Lady Starting A Career
Mrs. Mortimer reflects back on her early years and how the family decision to move to England provided her the opportunity to pursue a nursing career.
Dutch retribution
Ms. Drean describes seeing, while in Barneveld, Dutch collaborators being marched off to what she felt was to be their execution. She also talks about having female collaborators, whose heads had been shaved, as assistants, and expresses some empathy for these young women.
Pigeonholing
Ms. Drean describes how she had been taught a technique at nursing school to deal with the stresses of nursing, called pigeonholing. This technique taught her to compartmentalize her thoughts so that she could forget the stresses of nursing while on her free time.
Dutch charity and a revelation
Ms. Drean describes being billeted with a Dutch family and always finding a glass of wine in her room after a long day's work. Her host family then shows her a secret room used to shelter escaping airmen who had been shot down.
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