[Magdalen] parochialism

[Sibyl Smirl]

When I was a newlywed of 21 or 22, therefore about 1966, I went into St 
John's Hospital, where I was born, to get a little cyst taken out from 
under my skin (turned out to be a benign tumor, but that's not really 
relevant).  I was on The Pill.  It occurred to me that I'd be getting 
medication into me at the hospital, and I was aware of drug 
interactions, so I asked my surgeon about whether I should do anything 
(or quit for the month) about that only med I was on (he wasn't the 
normal GP who'd prescribed it for me).  He said it was fine, but DO NOT 
let any of the Sisters see it!  ;^)


On 6/18/16 9:08 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 6/18/2016 8:18:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>
> However,  it is no longer a
> Catholic hospital; it was bought by some godawful  corporation and has since
> been absorbed by another.  Bleah.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Ditto in this area.  There were Catholic hospitals in Scranton and in
> Wilkes-Barre when I arrived thirty years ago.  Now one of them  in
> Wilkes-Barre is an extended care facility, and the other has gone
> corporation for profit, but the physical plant that was the Catholic
> hospital is still in use for the new owners in Scranton.
>
> It's interesting that clinics with a history of working in/with Catholic
> hospitals in the Upper Midwest USA still have that working  connection.
> For example, the Mayo Clinic with Saint Mary's and Methodist
> Hospitals in Rochester, MN, and the Marshfield Clinic with  Sacred
> Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI where I lived.
>
> I can still hear the tiny bell announcing the nuns with Communion
> for the patients, the freezing of all activity, and the genuflections
> in the Madison, WI Catholic hospital where I had my Ob training.
>
> This is all gone, including, I think, the hospital.


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