Daily globe., 1883-08-04
DIR. GATES CHARGES.

'eIS> doSottUt yesterday ATterHOOH-
R,1deness Of the CITY Physician TOscarz
The Sisters.
The Investigating committee met again
yesterday afternoon at O'Clock in the
Sisters hospital, and elected the following
testimony from two of the sisters, the first
called upon being the mother assistant,
who testified on oath as follows: Am con-
nected with Sisters hospital as mother as
sistant, and have been since it opened. In
the case of Charles Anderson, DR.. Gates
did not write in the record to continue
the poultices; if it had been done the
poultices would have been coneinued;
all orders left in the record were carried
out. I told DR.. Gates that if he did not
write the order it would not be followed; /;
nthe case of William Murphy, DR.. Gates
asked him if he got the medicine ordered !;
told the doctor We carried out the orders
conscientiously and if he would ask us we
would give him all the facts; know of no
hard feelings between the sisters and DR..
Gates except that caused by the ungentle-
manly conduct of the doctor towards US; 1
never refused to give DR.. Gates any
information asked about any
patients EXCEPT about the pulse and tenn
pefature; we did not do this, as it is one
of the regulations of the hospital that each
physician should do that for himself; we
do not consider that one of the duties of
nurse; the charge of ignorance of the con-
dition of the patient during the absence
Of the physicians is not true Except in re-
gard to pulse and temperature) as far as
am concerned; we carried out all the
| orders left by DR.. Gates; in the case of
Saxon I telephoned for DR.. Gates three
times, and when DR.. Gates came in the
evening and told him I had telephoned
him he seemed to doubt, from what he said,
my statement, as he did upon several other
occasions. The relatives of Saxon took
him away because they were dissatisfied
| with the treatment he was receiving; they
brought another physician, but we would
not allow him to do anything as long as
Saxon was a city patient SO they took
HIN away and he carried DR.. Gates splints
with him; told DR.. Gates of this when he
came. BurrelI was pretty clean when he
came here; his clothing was a little soiled,
but we removed that and put him in a
clean bed. Morrison was brought
here and died the next
day; tie day he died the bed
and clothing were changed after the doctor
left; we buy the best quality of food and
plenty of it; patients get all that is order
ed for them; II one case we did not supply
eggs when they we're ordered because the
patients friends supplied them; some
patients are hard to please and find fault,
and told DR.. Gates that if he was going
to take the patients word instead of ours,
it was no use for sister to give him her
word about what was asked; he would ask
patients things in the presence of the
sisters which we considered it our business
to answer. DR.. Gates said patients had
been subjected sometimes. The wards and
beds are changed once week, and oftener
if necessary; patients receive baths when
they are brought into the hospital; they
are frequently bathed and sponged off;
they are never allowed to keep on dirty
clothing but sometimes we have trouble in
getting them off. have been in the habit
of going around with DR.. Gates since ne
has insulted the sisters; I told mother
superior would not have
any of the younger sisters insulted,
that would hereafter accompany him; :;
he was in the habit Of calling, out rudely
to sister, and once he threw baudage
| across the bed and said to me rudely, 'fold
| it''; told him afterwards that he had to
| deal with ladies here and not with hired
nurses, and that he should not only treat
US as such but that he should reply ives,
Sister," or ''no, Sister," when he made any
reply; he SAID he could not say ''if you
please and I told him that was not neces-
sary; I told him he was the only
physician that had been dissatisfied
since we opened the hospital, and that
we were only too willing to help and aid
him in every manner we could; be replied
that he was mad; told him to act like q
physician and not like boy; that if any
thing was wroMg for him to come to the
mother or myself and we would fix the mat
ter. also told him I would excuse him
for his rudeness because he was probably
in the habit of bossing around hired nurs-
es in other hospitals-that we were ladies
and he could not do that here; that if he
had anything to pout about he had better
do it before he left he hospi tai.
| We had no trouble after this; the
sisters complained to the mother superior,
of Dr.. Gates conduct, in my presence and
l then said would go around with him.
l have been a nurse and attending upon
| hospitals for twelve years; never under
stood that any directions were to be car
ried out until ordered discontinued; when
| the word continue was not written, in
some instances the direction was given
verbally; where medicines were given in
bottle we understood that they should be
continued until the bottle was exhausted.
rember DR., Gates asking Murphy about
medicines and the elatter made no reply;
I did not threaten Lena Roland
for telling lie to DR.. Gates; she cried for
an hour after DR.. Gates left, when l chided
her for the falsehood; told DR.. Gates of
this the next day; DR.. Gates did not tell
me that Lena had been punished enough;
did not ask him to go in and see her; Dr.
Gates did not dispute me by word, or in
the record, about the eggs; do not know
of the pulse and temperature of any pri-
vate patients being taken for any physi-
clan; did not tell the doctor that Saxon
had run away; I did not deem it necessary,
because 1 thought if he could get better
treatment it was not for US to interfere.
The only time DR.. Gates was
ungentlemanly to me was when he threw
the bandage across the bed and said "roll
it;' it was said in an ungentlemanly man
ner and not in gentlemanly tone; since
then he has always said "please" when he
asked me to do ANYTHING: before that he