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STATE
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
Now York
NAME OF WORKER
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
Clara** Weinstoek
ADDRESS 43 Morton St.
DATE jUMO 12
SUBJECT Beepital interview
1. Date and time of in',erview June 5 8
2. Place of interview jay. Hospital
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accarapanying you
6. Description of room, house, surroundinE.s, etc.
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
(Use as many additional sheets as necessar, for any ol' the forms,
each bearinc the propel' hoadini and the number to ,:rhich the material
rufsrs.)
AC. and A.
Say Butch, for a depressed patient that admission of
yours can sure hock a chinik. My opinion is she's got senile
arterio-sclerosis plus a little tsoris.
This fellow Butch is not a heartless guy by any means,
but there's a limit to a man's patience and then funny things can
happen. One time he'd been working all night and he was on duty
all the next day. A woman on his ward was dying of uremia. The
relatives were carrying on something terrific. Particularly some
cousin, a big bitch of a woman, is screa:ing as though they were
feeding her thistles. Wiener was up in his roam resting a minute
when the nurse calls him to ask him to do something about the
cousin. lie's half asleep and he tells her, "For Chrissake don't
bother mel Give her a C. and A. suppository." That's codein and
aspirin to quiet you.
Half an hour later he goes down to the ward. He hears
weird noises in the examining roam. 7hat's up now? He opens the
door and there are two nurses trying to jam a C. and A. up the
as of this monster of a cousin. Took it literally, by Jesus:
INSTRUMEWS INSIDE
Famous surgeonsl Listen to this. I had a cousin who
was operated on for stomach uloer by the biggest specialist in
the east, Professor Klipper. First thing he did was open up the
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wrong side. "hen he realized his mistake he sewed up the wound so
quickly that he left his Letruments inside. Then he opened up
the other side and found he didn't have his instruments. :7,o he had
to begin all over again. Her husband was ready to kill him when
he found out about it.
Some of the boys were doing an autopsy on one of Klipper's
cases. He couldn't understand what was wrong, such a beautiful
operati)n, you know, a beautiful operation only the patient died.
,e open the body and there's a complete set of knives and forks,
teaspoons and tablespoons, a whole surgical dinner set. flipper
went around mumbling to himself, "I can't believe it, I can't be-
lieve it". Just a skeptic.
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TWO CALLS
One time Butch was riding ambulance when a call comes
in for him to pick up an old woman in an apartment house who's
had a serious accident. He rushes over and un five flights, be-
cause the elevator's not running, of course, and there's the old
woman in the bathtub surrounded by relatives. She went to take a
bath and couldn't get out of the tub. So they called up the
doctor.
Another time Butch is riding he goes to pick up a kid
on Vest End Avenue. He comes in and the 7_0ther points to him and
tells the kid who's perfectly well, "There, I told you I'd call the
ambulance if you wouldn't eat your cereal!"