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FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAEIE OF IiORKER Weinstock
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
43 Morton
May 22
Hospital Story
1. Date and time o
interview may 17
2. Place of interview Hospital in New York
3. Name and address of informant
Interne
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
Arnold Ma4noff
6. Description of room, house, surroundins, etc.
Internees room.
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
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FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
STATE New York
NAVE OF WORKER Weinstock
ADDRESS 43 Morton
DATE May 22
SUBJECT Hospital Story
THE LUNG ABSCESS
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Efficient! They're so effieient in this hospital,
if you're a ward patient they'll give you an appendectomy while you're
taking a sitz bath. For instance last month, they were making grand
rounds on Ward 15, all the big shots mulling over the cases, it's
this, no it's that, it's my opinion Dr. Frank, on the other hand Dr.
Schmanzer, and the internes trying to keep themselves from falling
asleep on the nurses' shoulders.
Well they're going around shaking their heads when
somebody notices the 111/1E abscess in bed 24 is gone. The nurses
can't believe their eyes, they look again and agiin. No lung abscess.
A fine fix. By this time the boys are up to bed 10 and the staff's
getting panicky. They send the nurses out to find the abscess at all
cost, even if he's put himself on ice (morgue). The girls are running
all over the building looking for that stinker who's making Christ knows
what trouble for them, a guy who's supposed to be breathing his last
flat on his back under the auspices of St. Vitus, and here he's most
likely flying through the halls yelling for a water bottle.
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All of a sudden 6mitty who's been looking through the
cans on the fifth floor sees the lung abscess coming along on a table
spitting blood
war hero. She
This idiot got
into a cup with a nurse holding his hand as if he was her
runs over. What's happened? He had his tonsils removed.
out of bed to take a piss because he couldlt wait a
minute for someone to bring him a bottle. First class service or he
don't pay. He walks all over the building too dumb to ask for a can
until he sees a line of patients all in bathrobes. He doesn't know
they're all T and A's and figures they're waiting to take a piss like
him. So there he stands for about half an hour talking with the
tonsils and adenoids about the nurses' bosoms and the wonderful food,
never thinking that it's taking a pretty long time for them to go to
the can. All of a sudden he's at the head of the line. They grab
him at the door, lift him on the table, moi open his yap and scare him
so much that he can't say a word. In one minute, half a minute, 15
seconds, they give him the works, snip, snip in the famous St. Vitus
manner, and there he is ready to go back to the T and A ward where
he doesn't belong. And do you think that guy's dead? A champion like
that is too dumb to croak. That's how effieient this place is.