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Australian Hdqrs
Cairo
11.5.19.
My dear Judge,
Very many thanks for sending me a copy of the evidence etc in that case against the Terraces Hospital. I was much interested in it and of course feel that the finding was very hard on the nurses.
I know what it feels like to have a patient collapse – you dont consider anything in the world except how to restore respiration and until breathing is going on alright you give no thought or attention to anything else. I am quite certain that had I been in the Sisters place precisely the same would have happened.
I dont like to think how many times even in my short experience a patient has got wet in bed or on the table and I have never thought twice about the chance of any ill result – merely changing the bedding when every other thing had been attended to. And I think if anyone had come messing around while I was doing artificial respiration on such an errand as to see whether the patient was getting damp – I would perhaps have overstepped the bounds of polite conversation.
There still seems to be some unrest in Cairo