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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 6, 1980

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A tort Tenn i Don Wogan Charles Rosald i m a  Flagon shop to bin you work out relationship. If in Ort by to pursue i career in Medicine then too Itsik med Clae. My husband John Kim i am unmixed to my proc Mon Oral u be b committed  Bis a 33, single and has a private practice in a trick and gynaecology. She graduated in 1972 from Irge Washington University medical school where re were 10 women i a class or 1 10. When she did her Dancy there she was he Only female resident thei in four years. Miking round at Columbia Hospital far Winner in warmly greets her patient and carefully goes term Tetra with them to nuke sure hey under tand the treatment or surgery the stops to Check on a woman in the last stage of or. The woman Speaks very Little English but Bis Idle in a soft voice that very soon Shell have her new y. The woman nods and smiles More Al he tone than words vis gives the order to have it patient moved into the Ivery room and leaves to scrub up the patient and the Tor gel to the delivery room Al 10 20 . At 10 25. Calls for a special team of paediatrician. By 10 30, Bis. Delivered a 7-Pound baby boy who has the umbilical d wrapped around his neck and needs to have his w pumped. Rhe team arrives and All activity focuses on the baby. Wirg the Mother s bewilderment. Bis again up calms in u i tone to say the baby is not in danger. To reassure is makes sure the baby is put in the Mother s arms arc he is taken to the cd uric intensive care unit. I whole thing has taken is minutes. Elizabeth Crisp i a gynaecologist and obstetrician who 1 chief of staff at Columbia Hospital for women from 6 to 1978. But it was a Long haul la get there. After dating from medical school in 1950, she spent four in of Active duly in the Navy mostly at the Bethesda Val Hospital where she Obj the Only female doctor. I was the Only skirt in the whole assignment. When r a doctor was trying to find to. He would just look the skirt whether i was at a medical meeting or Tea in recall her four Yean As a Navy doctor did t count As a id ency. It took her three Yean and two hospitals be i finding a Hospital that would Lake her in a three r residency program. In order to be certified by a Dica Board a doctor must have the equiv Lenl of a of resident s year three years. So she started All Over u n. By that Lime i m sure i was the oldest living resident und Crisp says. Over the last 10 years i have seen such High duality Jien it s exciting to Sec the qualities of he scientist i the artist. I Don t see much of the medical students Days but the female residents coming through the pit Ali Are extraordinarily  Sam the lip change and Sony Don t. The my Donl duty or tire District of Columbia elected or. Cortij stun its first woman Prtt Zoettl this yen. M the Nile doctor. Hill hit their old boy net Ait Day women doctors Are forming their own network. Pkg of them said i Don t want to be one of the boy.  vote mar a 1980 from mount St. Helens Strawberry picker shielded from volcanic Ash. By Les Blumenthal associated Pressw Ife battering is up. So Are suicide m in Mola. Calls to Community crisis lines have doubled. A thunderstorm or a sonic Boom sends  scurrying to Call police. Everyone Here i u Little uptight said Norman Behrens assistant town clerk in Sprague a town of 550 about 200 Miles West of the rumbling giant held responsible for a flurry of problems in a wide area of he slate of Washington. The giant mount is. Helen first Tol Chino to rup in the Continental United Stiles in Over a Century. Tint Volcano to spread � Cloud of Ash Over America in the Modem age. The Mountain blew its top on May 18, killing Al least 31, and scientists soy it May continue spewing Ash and super heated gases for up to a decade. The immediate effects of the in Ilia eruption were dust destruction and death. The Long term effects Are less Cervin but Evi Dence is growing that the Volcano s Impact on the mental health of hundreds of thousands of residents in the area will be serious and Long lasting. Stress anxiety anger and depression Are Normal responses to natural disaster experts say. What s missing in Washington is la sigh of Relief after the storm passes. The situation hat been exacerbated because we Don t know what will happen next or How Long it will Las said Dan Sheehan president elect of the state Council of menial health programs. Aside from the threat of another eruption there s the constant problem of Ash it takes Only a gust of wind in some places to produce blinding Clouds of volcanic dust. Sprague and nearby Ril Zvillie for instance got several inches of Ash after the May 18 blast. Both towns have been cleaned up but a Gusty wind blowing across the Field can still reduce visibility to near Zero. Everyone dread the wind said Ritzville chief of police Donal Koehler. We Wake up id the morning hoping the wind won t  Paul Adams a Counselor in Adams county said peo ple Are frustrated by the Ash which ii Conj Antly wow ing. You can t gel anything  Calls to the county Cristi line fell of Juil after May is he said but now it s two or three limes Normal. There has been a marked incr a in the number of suicide threats and attempted  i Dmitri lie increase might have other causes but said you can tie it in with the phases of the Moon or with he Price of wheat in Bulgaria but i m assuming it has to do with the  Pirn Smith a. In Tel health Lului for Grant county old people once Loktu the eruption might mum baby Bodoni but it Hood week people sch say Foj to Bart was going Labott Vitam boom.1 the first week especially pc open did they would be leaving and it is still in the Back of their minds Smith said. Twe s a lot of tension in families. People Are losing their ability to. Keep clean to keep things in  she added there is a real frustration when after dusting your House for the fourth and fifth Lime someone comes in and says it sure is Dusty in Here " at the sojourner truth House in Che Halls about smiles from the Volcano staffers noticed an increase in wife battering cases from towns nearest the Mountain i mid june. It takes that Long for stress to catch up with people said director Priscilla Gould. She said the volcanic activity coupled w i h the recession exert Tolof pressure on families. Families become pressure cookers a person needs to have a v  
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