European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. December 29,1987 the stars and stripes f Al Paflas patients get the latest on medical care talking their kind of language in Spain by Janet d Agostino medical writer Torrejon a Spain for a hos Pital patient he jargon used by medical personnel can be confusing but. When nurses and doctors actually speak a Dif Ferent language a pal enl can feel like he has lost Al control of his care. Americans in Spain who find them selves in this Silva Lon get help with the language Barrier from doctors at the . Air Force Hospital at Torr Jon a. Through the visitation program Span ish peaking doctors from Torrejon re View the medical care american patients receive in Spanish hospitals and then explain that care to he patient. More than 200 visit have been made since the pro Gram started in september 1985, we asked ourselves if by visiting the Hospital could we make things belter for the patient said capt. Gary Forthman director of patient affaire the pal enl was entitled 10 explanations he was t receiving on a regular newcomers id Torrejon a Are told that if they Are injured anywhere in Spain if they arc significantly injured i will have a doctor o Sec them within a Day said or. Col Paul Carllon com Mander of the Torrejon Hospital. Service member and their families arc encouraged to notify Torrejon officials when they Are admitted 10 a Spanish hos Pital civilians who Are not associated with the . Military also can be visited by the Torrejon doctors if they notify the . Embassy Carllon said. The purpose of the program is to pro vide i Liaison for educating the family and the patient. But it also lets medical personnel at Torrejon know How the patient is faring in Case there is a need for Transfer to an american facility. Although Spanish medical care is Sim Ilar in Many ways to american medical care Here Are cultural differences for example. Spanish doctors do not explain As carefully or As thoroughly to a pal enl the rare and treatment being Given Quyon said. We have to recognize the cultural differences and intervene if things Aren t right he said. That intervention can in clude voicing differences of opinion with Spanish doctors concerning treatment. We have a report card on every hos Pital we visit and we know who has flunked a visit and who has t. We know where the Good medical care but Carlion said the american doctors arc tactful when questioning the care of a Spanish doctor. It is a very delicate situation and you have to remember that face is every thing he said. People who know they will be going into a Spanish Hospital either because they choose to or because he care they need ii not available at Torrejon Are encouraged to Contact the patient affairs office first Forhman said they need to know that going Inlo a Spanish Hospital requires planning he said. This should be one of the first places they go. 1 can Tell them what to expect and what they need but what usually happens is some poor distressed husband comes in after his wife is Al ready in the Hospital or there has been an emergency in the night when a family member has been brought to the Hosp hospitals in Madrid often ask Pati Enli to pay Bills in full before discharge my Are unwilling to Wail for payment from the civilian health and medial pro Gram of the uniformed services Cham pus or some other Ioner of Nornan said. That s when we have to come in Tod intervene to work out a solution be said. Spanish hospitals have been Flung in the past by some service Mceben who returned to the United states without paying their bilk he said. Frihman is trying to solve he prob Lem of impatient birr collection by meet ing with Spanish Hospital administrator. In october Forthman accompanied by a translator met with admin Sirtton at la Paz and at Ramon and Cajal two of Madrid s largest Hospital. We discussed the necessity for Ibe two offices to work together As opposed to putting undue pressure on be patient he said. They know when they gel our patients they will be paid or they can Call Jules Verne hero could t beat deadline today London a Phileas Fogg to ire pid hero of Jules veme s novel around the world in 80 Days would be 22 Days late if he Rich id carry out his journey the some Way today the sunday times claimed. There would be no problem if he went by air it could be done in 68 hours the newspaper said. But the adventurer would Lack Passen Ger ships on the routes he selected and his journey across the United slates by train and snowmobile the Modem Sleigh would probably take longer than it did in 1872, when the Story was set. In the novel Fogg bet fellow members of the club he could go around the world in 80 Days. His winning bet of 20,000 pounds then Worth about 196,000 would be Worth 619,600 pounds or 11.13 million in today s Money. The sunday times got a modern timetable drawn up for Fogg s route of 115 years ago by Lloyd s maritime information services and the Thomas Cook travel Agency. It was Cook who inspired the French writer s adventure Yam by undertakings round the world tour to drum up Busi Ness. Cook did it in 222 Days but he spent Only 90 of those Days journeying Onward to his ecu Point. The present Day journey at the Best estimate and taking no account of any unplanned hitches would last 102 Days the sunday times reported. The newspaper said the Lack of ships would Force the Modem Fogg to bribe cargo ships captains to carry him and his manservant for about 19,150 a Day. Among his Otti problems would be passport and visa delays and difficulties in hiring to elephant in India. And the Beautiful Parsee woman Aouda rescued by Fogg from being burned on her husband s funeral pyre in India and brought to London by him would come to grief. The British Home office would Likely declare her to have entered Inlo a marriage of convenience to evade immigration control and she would be promptly deported he Story said. Awaiting trial in prison in Managua. James j. Denby the Illi Nois Man shot Down in his Small plane oter Nicaragua dec. 6, write to his family on Christina a in an inf Nice room of the prison. Denby to will be tried for violin Ink nicaraguan air space has been on hunger strike for More than two a ivs to Pruim jail Cun Dilkens thai include solitary confine of it. Saudi arabian King accuses Iran of expansionist Aims in Mideast Riyadh saudi Arabia a King fahd on Sun Day accused Iran of pursuing territorial ambitions in the Middle East and urged Tehran to help arabs rid Jerusalem of israeli occupation. His statement came As he and other leaders of the persian Gulf Arab Alliance met behind closed doors for a second Day to discuss diplomatic action and a combined military strategy to deter iranian attacks on i hair coastlines and Oil Lanker routes fahd current chairman of the six nation Gulf cooperation Council complained thai Iran is directing arrows at our hearts instead of helping us to liberate Jerusalem and the Arab islamic territories in he accused iranian readers of being Moi valid by territorial ambitions and inc desire for Hegemony and exporting ideologies alien to our Arab and islamic the King s remarks were carried by the official saudi press Agency. The second Day of discussions came amid relative Calm in the Gulf tic re were no reports of iraqi or iranian strikes on shipping As the deadliest month in the so called Tanker War neared its end. The iranians have lately been escalating the War in the arabian Gulf Region and continuing to threaten neighbouring countries including sister Kuwait the King said in his remarks carried by the saudi Agency. We is ill Appeal to Iran to respond to the will of the International Community fahd said. He also expressed support for the islamic afghan guerrillas fighting the soviet occupation of Afghani Stan. Sunday marked the eighth anniversary of soviet intervention in thai country to help the communist government repel the guerrillas. The King urged soviet leaders to respond to world appeals and withdraw your forces so that Afghanistan May again be he also paid warm tribute to the Pali Simian he roes for their wave of protests against israeli of Tupu King fahd lion forces on the West bunk and a a strip. We Salute the Suad Lastnik i of she and their resistance. And we Appeal to the world Community to stand by this people in us j Uit fahd said. Fahd told the opening session of the Summit that Iran s conditions for i ending he War arc unreasonable and warned thai Arab and Nihoff Powers could be drag ged in of inc conflict Iii i prolonged
