I am in the middle of reading 'Down From Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age" by Richard Selzer MD. In it Dr. Selzer he strangely calls pneumonia 'a friend' and in many cases involving terminal illness he doesn't treat the pneumonia. We see in many obits of the old days people dying of pneumonia after a short illness as Charles did. Even in the 1960s when I worked at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital which had many terminally ill patients, older doctors would sometimes overrule younger doctors that didn't want to give up on a patient.
I am in the middle of reading 'Down From Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age" by Richard Selzer MD. In it Dr. Selzer he strangely calls pneumonia 'a friend' and in many cases involving terminal illness he doesn't treat the pneumonia. We see in many obits of the old days people dying of pneumonia after a short illness as Charles did. Even in the 1960s when I worked at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital which had many terminally ill patients, older doctors would sometimes overrule younger doctors that didn't want to give up on a patient.
In today’s photo of the fire station, the person identified as A G Howe is A L Howe (Albert Larned Howe, ‘Bert’).
He is my great grandfather.
So much fun to see the photo again!
Cynthia Howe