European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday october 31, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 s4s Jan by Lyuh w. S0uu it rec to attn Village Chapel Rose window. Chapel to turn 35 years old Heidelberg Community chaplain an congregations will celebrate the 35lh anniversary of Usa eur s first army Chapel sunday. The Mark Twain Village Chapel was dedicated nov. 2, 1951, with the first Catholic and protestant services taking place nov. 4. Before the Chapel was Buill Mililay Community residents worshipped in German churches in the Heidelberg area. Services for soldiers also were held in various buildings on the caverns. The Chape includes a stained Glass window depicting the Usa eur Patch. The Rose win Dow was donated by the women s army corps. Chaplain maj. Gen Noni. Einertson the army chief of chaplains will speak at the roman Catholic service at 10 . Sunday and at the protestant service at 11 15 . Chaplain col Robert Covington former Mark Twain Village chaplain and now the Hanau military Community chaplain will speak at a service hosted by the Prol Estam and jewish communities at 11 1s . On sunday nov. 16. Soviet family gets exit visas Moscow up soviet authorities have granted exit visas to Inessa Florov her husband and two Chil Dren Clearing the Way for them to travel to Israel where Neasa is to donate Bone marrow that could save the life of a brother who is dying from leukaemia family friends said wednesday. The Al Eros plan to leave Moscow next monday and Tope Powch jinn""1 in i Chi win. A plead with soviet authorities to allow his Sisters Rami in to leave the soviet also testified before a . Senate commit tee about his Shirman and his sister s family Are jews. Soviet authorities indicated 12 Days ago the it prov family would be free to leave the country despite a family dispute that had prevented Inessa i husband Viktor from getting his officials granted Inessa and her children per Mission to leave the country in August but she delayed her departure hoping her husband could win Permis Sion to go As s father had refused to sign a consent waiver that would allow his son to leave the country. Soviet officials said there was nothing they could do unless the father signed the waiver which Stales the in is free of debt and financial responsibilities to a family. Family friends said Viktor s father was still refusing to sign the waiver which is required under soviet Law but soviet officials had promised to Cut through there tape and get him an exit vis. The friends who declined to be identified said the visas were issued tuesday and the Al Eros bought their air tickets wednesday. Expert says medics role to increase in future wars by make Heronemus staff Wilder wider Duro Germany increased Reliance on Field medics and buddy care on he Battlefield Are part of the future for army Medicine said or. It. Col Thomas h. Auer 3rd in div surgeon. Auer is one of three physicians awarded this year surgeon general physician. Recognition award. He was recommended far the award while serving As chief of ambulatory care at Wurzburg army Hospital also receiving the annual award Given to one Captain one major and one Lieuten ant colonel were Cap Glenn a Dregansky chief of emergency services a Nuernberg and maj. Dale f Shoonover chief of Pri Mary care at fort Camp Bell awards were presented of the three family care practitioners wednes Day during the annual teaching chiefs meeting at Fitzsimons army medical Center in Aurora Colo. Auer established family practice As an inpatient service at Wuerzburg and saw family practitioners As signed As commanders in the Hospital s outlying clinics Schweinfurt. Wertheim Kil Zingen wild Flecken and bad Kissinger while serving As chief of family prac Tice until 1983.family practice Means a doctor is assigned to treat Auer the same families whenever they rated care. I think in the army we lose a Little bit of the continuity of care because of the mobility of the array Auer said. That probably lessens the effect of the family practitioner somewhat but the advantage of the family practitioner particularly Over a general medical officer is that he is a three year trained individual with. Broader expertise broader exposure to things Auer said while the army has increased emphasis on family practice medical care on the Battlefield also is being redefined. We re going through a time of redefinition and revaluation of what we Tan do in the Field . We re still somewhat under the influence of Viet Nam where when soldiers were injured the medic stabilized the patient and called in a helicopter which came Down and very very quickly picked him up off the Battlefield and moved him Back into a Hospital. In a european scenario we re going to have to depend on a lot More treatment capabilities of these medics because the Pali Coli Are going o be on the Battlefield a lot longer period of time before they get to a physician or physician s assistant Auer said. The military s Academy of health sciences is train ing held medics to Miet that expanded role he Are being taught How to Start ivs it ravenous procedure show to put in Airway procedure show to do some procedures that Are going o be critical to maintaining life on the Battlefield Tor some period of Lime i think that we re also going to be much More dependent on non medic personnel performing a Tot of those buddy Aid Type procedures in a Field doctor praises army health care but dissatisfied with the system Byton Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Nuernberg or. Cape Glenn v. Dregansky gives army medical care a clean Bill of health but says the administrative systems supporting it show signs of sickness. Dregansky chief of emergency services at the army Hospital in Nuernberg is the youngest of the three family practitioners who won this year s surgeon Gen eral s physician recognition award. A plaque fastened to Dregansky s office door quotes Gen. George Pat ton s View on the ravages of Battle god forgive me but i love this Dregansky was battling Bis own enemy the system As he Sal Over a pile of patients charts that flowed Over his desk and along a nearby table. He gripped a handful and Shook them inthe air. Look at his to said pointing at the illegible scrawled entries. In civil Ian hospitals the charts Are dictated and then typed a lawyer would have a Field Day with this. It s no documentation at still he says the army s Quality Assurance program and peer review system Are excellent i review aver 1,000 of these charts a month . You la find that patients Are not unsatisfied with the care they get they re unsatisfied with system things like wailing hour upon hour to be seen or to pick up a the 33-year-old Dregansky is emergency services chief and a Consu Tunt on various medical course for professionals. He supervise six doctors assigned to the Nuernberg Hospital s emergency rooms. One problem a Reganit sees in army health car ii the systems related blockages in the patient flow through primary care Dianics troop medical Tinia and emergency rooms Dregansky rashly takes the support systems to task but at the same time praises health care and the Quality of army medical professionals. When he talks Barthly Dregansky it s with a wide grinned Boyish Ness that in t offensive. It s the kind of brashness that superiors sometimes cautiously approve As Long h does t get out of band the kind that probably contributed Tobii Success. His accomplishment he says ii the result of being in the right place at the right this was at the Hohenfels training area from August 1984 to july 1985 where he put his Broad based family practice training to Good use a commander of the clinic there later he was sent to improve operations Al the Bamben clinic where be said. They had a lot of one problem was the patient workload. It s one of the busiest clinics in . We were seeing 7,000 patients a month. Seeing 400 to 50o patients a month is a Safe yet productive Load for a physician. I was routinely seeing too to too and working 100 and More hours a week. That s hard to Wake up to every in emergency care particularly with regard to worst Case patients Dregansky. Taid the army has improved dramatically Over the past decade. Ten Yean ago we were killing people . Now Ifa patient hits our door we can almost always save one patient who did t make it we a 24-Jrear-cld woman who died in childbirth oct. I. Inca airy called the efforts of the medical lean Tat managed to save her baby. Tyler Palmer heroic but Dinda Palmer died of an Iota fluid embolism a rare Afflic Tion Dregansky said. The teem that worked on her did t take it very Well. It s times like that when you realize you re not calling the shots shaking his head As if it were a great weight the longer i am a doctor the More i find 1 Don t knowl Hyrc i am a hot shot setting an Sward and this hftppens.11 Drega airy cited Hii dissatisfaction with the system Side of army can As the main reason he s planning to leave the army Neu War and my far Knudt country doctor practice in his Home tute of Michigan. Pm not bitter. I m nol a complainer. I Jet want to Point Oul Whai a wrong As Well Ai what right his Overall assessment of army medical care can be boiled Down � a credible testimonial i bring my kids here.1
