The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-11
WIS NOT DIR. PORTER.
Statement That FIe Was Discharged Mt
the H0spitaI-It Was DR.. Dean Foster.

| 1t was stated in an afternoon paper yes
| terday that Dr. Lewis b. Porter had been
removed from the staff Of the New Haven
| hospital.
DR.. Porter has been in the Philippines
since last April and resigned in good stand
! Ing from the hospital at that time.
| The physician that Is probably meant by
the piece In yesterdays paper is DR.. Dean
Foster, the house physician, who was dis
charged Thursday by the medical board for
leaving the hospital without permission.
1T seems that DR.. Foster LETT last Satur-
day without leave and did not return until
tuesday of this week. When he came TO
the hospital Tuesday he said that he had
been to Boston to attend to some matters
OF Or. Frederick Hulseberg, who met death
In the Philippines about two weeks ago
and who was close friend Of Dr.. Foster.
1T was supposed at the hospital that Dr..
Foster left the place with Miss Myra
Sweetzer, one of the nurses In training at
the Institution, but when the physician re-
turned he absolutely denied being with
Miss Sweetzer and said that he had not
seen her. immediately upon his return he
was suspended. Thursday the medical
board discharged him.
DR.. Nathan L. Griffin rendered his resig-
nation as assistant house physician yester-
day and no reason for his action was given.
Miss Sweetzcr, it was learned at the hos
pltal, was engaged to DR.. Hulseberg, and
when the news Of his death came she was
terribly Frustrated. She gradually became
ed to remove her to her home in Ports
mouth N; Fl. 1t was deemed advisable
that she. leave this city promptly and re-
quested Or. Foster to accompany her.
A we'll known New Haven physician said
last night that in his opinion DR.. Foster
had not been treated fairly and that he be-
lieved the public would have the same
opinion when the facts of the case were
known. The physician referred to said:
When the news came that Dr.. Ilulseberg
had been killed Miss sweetzer, to whom he
was engaged, was Frustrated. Her mental
condition was such that she could not at
tend to her duties at the hospital and was
such that she would probably be dismissed
from the hospital as unit for duty. Real
izing that in her mental state such an oc-
currence would make her worse, l took her
to my home that night and she remained
there over night. IN the morning | saw
that she could not return to her work at
the hospital and that she must have time
TO recover. | therefore decided that 1t
would be best for her to GO to hey home. In
Portsmouth for a time She was In shch
a mental state thnt 1t was necessary for
someone to go with her and she requested
that DR.. Foster, an intimate friend of her
dead fiancee, go with her. DR.. Foster ac-
cordingly went and on arriving in Ports
mouth found that he could not get back to
ne hospital that evening He, therefore,
at once, informing the superintendent that
he could not get back.
'on the following Tuesday at meeting
of the medical board of the hospital he was
suspended for violation of the rule against
leaving the. hospital without permission,
and on the following Thursday at a meet
ing of the board he was dismissed. The
new rule went into effect Il month or two
ago and this Is the first case of its enforce
ment. The medical board made an ex-
ample in Dr. Fosters case. DR.. Foster was
Il close friend of DR.. Hulseberg. | think
that under the circumstances the rule
should have been suspended. Any man
would have acted the same under the cir
cumstances. DR.. Fosters work at the hos.
ing the circumstances would say so.
Or Griffin. who was a friend Of DR..
Foster and who has resigned because Of the
latters dismissal, stood high In his class In
the medical school, and after graduation he
received an appointment in the Paterson
hospital. The New Haven hospital author
titles persuaded him to give that UP and ac-
cept an appointment here. After that they
found fault with his work There has been
the young. physicians, who are treated like
boys. OF course, their service there gives
them valuable experience, but there Is no
pcrniary consideration.
"Dr. Hulseberg was under suspension
when he received an appointment in the
philippines. While under suspension he
took the United States army, examinations
for surgeons and passed After that, he
returned to the hospital and then the au-
rhorltes there told him that they could fix
up the matter of his suspension so that he
could stay. He Informed them that he did
not care to stay. Since then DIR. Hulse-
berg's friends In the hospital have been
treated harsbly. DR.. Foster denied having
gone to Portsmouth with Miss SweetZer in
order to shield her from the enforcement of
the rule against the nurses in the training
school going out in public with the physi-
clans at the hospital"