Industrial medicine and surgery . f industrial medicine and sur-gery which embodies most of the good points of the various a rather detailed outline of the medical work in this indus-try is herewith submitted. The doctors office has nineteen rooms finished in the most up-to-date manner, and located on the top floor of the main building awayfrom all noise and dirt. Every room, except three, has outside win-dow light. These rooms are for the following purposes: one large 67 68 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY general waiting room; one large office and record room; one privateoffic
Industrial medicine and surgery . f industrial medicine and sur-gery which embodies most of the good points of the various a rather detailed outline of the medical work in this indus-try is herewith submitted. The doctors office has nineteen rooms finished in the most up-to-date manner, and located on the top floor of the main building awayfrom all noise and dirt. Every room, except three, has outside win-dow light. These rooms are for the following purposes: one large 67 68 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY general waiting room; one large office and record room; one privateoffice for the chief of staff; one private office for the super ntendentof nurses two history rooms; four examination rooms (one equippedfor nose and throat examinations); a laboratory; a drug room; two wellequipped surgical dressing rooms; a sterilizing room; two rest rooms;and two toilet and bath rooms. The medical staff consists of nine physicians, two dentists, andtwelve nurses during the busy seasons, and drops down to seven doc-. WAIT1NG ROOM Fig. 14.—A view from the Doctors Office. (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) tors during the summer. An oculist is on the staff but does not spendany time at the plant. Each doctor spends three and one-half hoursat the plant, so rotating that during the busy morning hours there areat least four physicians in attendance, the remainder filling in the restof the day. Recently a full-time woman physician has been added to the work among the girl employees has more than demonstrated thegreat advantage of having a diplomatic, well-balanced woman physi-cian to handle many of the problems presented by the girls. A PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY 69 Practically every one of these doctors is a specialist in some lineof medicine or surgery, and his work at the plant is largely along thisspecial line. Thus two good surgeons are represented; an orthopedicspecialist is of the greatest value in many of these cases; a specialist onskin
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