{"id":108323,"date":"2021-11-22T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108323"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:48:17","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-quite-a-bedtime-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108323","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Quite a Bedtime Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108323\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been said that I fall asleep in the air as my head is about to make contact with my pillow.<\/p>\n<p>However, every now and them, I have difficulty falling asleep.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I toss and turn. At these times, my Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Dr. Cranky Wangshaw-Vesalius-Steinberger appears to tell me a bedtime story. (One of her famous patients was Sherlock Holmes. When the great detective\u2019s primary physician, Dr. Watson was away, Grandma would care for this often difficult patient.)<\/p>\n<p>The welcome swish of her skirts and faint aroma of lavender and vanilla announced her presence.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing it was Grandma Cranky, I settled in, adjusting my head on my pillow and pulling my lilac quilt beneath my chin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Child,\u201d she began. \u201cIt is time you learned about a brave British nurse with whom I once enjoyed a fascinating dinner. I had been invited to present as a guest lecturer to the Brussels Medical Society. And so mutual friends in England arranged my introduction to this remarkable nurse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer name was Edith Louisa Cavell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the First World War, she was treating soldiers in German-occupied Belgium. Edith was an accomplished woman who had worked in hospitals across England. Her fame as a pioneering nurse led a Belgian surgeon to offer her a position as Matron in charge of the first school of nursing in Belgium. And, dear Edith did this very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurse Cavell had returned to visit her family in England when the First World War broke. Knowing that she could be a great help, she immediately proceeded back to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdith turned her nursing school into a hospital in which she treated wounded from all sides and all civilians. She even found a way to help British soldiers who were trapped behind the German lines, and worked with an underground to send them to safety in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandma,\u201d I complained, \u201cThis is not a soothing bedtime story. I\u2019m more wide awake than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, my dear. But the only times I really have your full attention is when you are my little insomniac. As an educated woman, you need to be aware of others who came before you, their deeds, their history, their bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded my head. Grandma Cranky is always right.<\/p>\n<p>Sighing, she continued, \u201cThere is a tragic end to the story of Nurse Edith Cavell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remarkable woman was working behind German lines, giving shelter to French, British and Belgian soldiers and because of her, over two hundred allied soldiers escaped across the border to safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore she left England for Belgium, her friends tried desperately to convince her to stay and not head for German occupied Brussels. On her arrival in Brussels, she admonished the other nurses, \u2018Any wounded soldier must be treated, friend or foe. Each man is a father, husband or son. As nurses you must take no part in the quarrel-our work is for humanity. The profession of nursing knows no frontiers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdith Cavell had links to British Intelligence; and so German authorities became aware of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter an investigation, Nurse Cavell was arrested, tried and found guilty of treason for smuggling allied soldiers out of Belgium<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1915, on October 12, she was executed by a German firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA close friend of mine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: \u2018Everybody must feel disgusted at the barbarous actions of the German soldiery in murdering this great and glorious specimen of womanhood.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As she tucked me in, Grandma Cranky said, \u201cI know this is not a pretty story, but it important that we not forget this courageous woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood night, my dear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>SERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a> \u201ctalk real world medicine\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist It has been said that I fall asleep in the air as my head is about to make contact with my pillow. However, every now and them, I have difficulty falling asleep. 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