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    "ocrText": "and if he thonght shat the tooth shuild come out that I would risk it and have it done,\nas I knew other girls who had worked at the same thing and had teeth extracted but\nsuffered no ill affects. I suggested that she go outdoors and get all the sunshine\nshe\ncould, and also suggested to her that if it was possible for her to come over\nto the office at Columbia University, we would make examinations there. I made no\nexamination, not even to look into her mouth. While she went to the lavoratory, her\nfriend who came with her told me about how she would remain inthe house all the time,\nand\nwould not go out with friends, I told her to try to get her fréends to get her\nout of doors as much as possible to get all the sunshine she could to take her mind\noff of her condition.\nThat is all I saw of Miss Schaub.\nAt the time of Miss Willey's visit to my office 1 told her that I was working\nwith\nthe\nU. S. Radium Corp. in trying to determine where the trouble was in the industry.\nI-42-43 Dr. McCaffery, who was one of the Consulting Surgeons connected with the\nthut\nPresbyterian Hospital was called in to examine a patient which I had sent to the\nhospital for observance. I met Dr. McCaffery at the Pres. Hospital and discussed\nthis case with him both before and after his examination - he said the conditions in\nmary ways wesesimilar to the Freyer case, and asked me if I would like to see the\nFreyer case and make an electpometric test on her. I said I should be very glad to\ndo\nso, and he said he would send her over to my office some time when she was in to\nsee him.\nWhile I was away in N.H. the latter part of June or the first part fo\nJuly1926, Dr. McCaffery called up my Secretary and made an appointment for Miss Freyer\nto come to my on July 9th. My Secretary notified me and I came on from N.H.\nto see this case. I made an electrometric test of Miss F. with a gamma ray electro-\nscope, but because of the atmospheric conditions did not make an examination of\nexpired air, but asked her to come in some time in the fall. Miss\nFreyer\nwas\nvery friendly in her attitude, and we disinssed her aase very freely. I asked her\nif\nshe had any objection to my having an X-ray made of her jaw, as I would like to do so,\nshe consented and we took her over to the Vanderbilt Clinic where the picture\nwas\nread by the radiologist,Dr. Lewis, then in charge. I also asked her if she would\nhave any objection to my taking a specimen of her blood, which provélege she\ngranted\nme. We talked for pretty nearly two hours about her case.\nShe told me what she used\nto do at the plant and all of her troubles - said that when she was going to be sent\nover th the Reconstruction Hospital for an examination Dr. Kneff came to see\nher\nand\nspent one whole Sunday afternoon trying to persuade her not to go to N.Y. for teeatment\nsaying that he knew more about the treatment than anybody else, but she insisted\nupon\ngoing to New York. She said\"the other girls are dead, I am still alive.\nMiss\nFreyer at that time complained of pains in her lower limb, and I said that I was\nsorry she had not mentioned it at the time she was having the X-ray taken, that she\nmight have had it X-rayed at the same time, and that when she came back in the fall we\nwould X-ray it in the fall to see if any bone changes had taken place.\nMiss\nFreyer\nnever returned to my office.\nMr. Barker was present at that time, because we were carrying on some other\nexperimental work, and he assisted me in making readings.\nConsidering that Miss\nFreyer had been sent to me by her Doctor I sent a letter ,July 10th, to Dr. McCaffery\nalso\nstating what our electrometric test had been, her blood, and suggesting that if the\ntreatment which was being tried on Miss Dunn to eliminate the radium was suffessfull\nthat Miss F. undergo the same treatment. Ordinarily when a Dr. sends another a\npatient into a laboratory for examination the man making examination does not discuss\nthe case or give his findings to the patient. It is considered unethical, and it is\nfor the Dr. to give the information if he thinks necessary himself. Miss Freyer's\nblood picture was not completed while she was there, with the exception of the red\ncount, white count and Hemoglobin test. Her Hemoglobin at that time was 80, and in\ntalking with her about her condition I told her that her blood condition was better\nthan mine, inasmuch as my Hemoglobin at that time was only 70 due to certain exposures\nwhich I had been undergoing with my industrial research work."
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