The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-02
DOCTOR EMILY ON THE BUS
MIGHTY BUSENESSLIkE AMBU-
LANCE SURGEON SHE rs.
OEFlcisl East Side Disposition TO Laok
Anybody VINO Bothers Her-A Broken
Thigh. Two Drunlks. Crazy Woman
and q sunstroke on Her List Yesterday.


Thigh. Two Drunlks. Crazy woman
and sunstroke on Her List Yesterday.
DIR. Emily Dunning took her turn on the
Gouverneur Hospital ambulance yesterday
from o'clock In the morning until o'clock
In the afternoon, and, according to the
driver OF the -bus" and the police with
whom she came in contact, she acted like
a thoroughbred who had responded to
hurry calls for years. DIR. Dunning got
her degree Of M. ID. from Cornell, where
she stood at the head Of her class. leading
not only the women but the men. She
got her hospital appointment and became
a member OF the Gouverneur stan about
six months ago. Her friends, who are
proud Of her, declare that she ia the first
woman physician who ever went on am
bulance runs.
Il was her first regular day on the am
bulance yesterday, and the calls to which
she responded made IL typical days
work, as ambulance calls 60, for there
was fractured leg to be set in splints. a
crazy woman to be removed from police
station, a heat prostration, a drunk who
had fallen and cut his head, and case Of
alcoholism down In South street.
About an hour after Dr. Dunning went on
duty there was call from Park row and
Chambers street. George vabak, redler,
who was propelling pushcart full Of pea
nuts. was knocked down by q brewery
wagon. which ran over his leg.
There is always a crowd In Park row,
and when anything unusual happens there
are usually about 1000 persons around to
sec what the trouble 10. That was the case
when the Gouverneur ambulance galloped
up New Chambers street with tho rotary
alarm bell jangling in great shape.
The bell attracted tho attention OF the
crowd. On the back seat of the ambulance
they saw young woman OF perhaps IS
years who wore an ambulance surgeons
blue cap held on by two hat pins, white
shirt waist with q red GROSS on the sleeve,
and blue walking skirt. She wore eye
glasses and had general air Of business.
az her medical brothers do, grabbed her
little black satchel and started to butt
through the crowd. The policeman who
had the case looked twice and read the let
ters on her cap before he realized that she
was the ambulance surgeon. Then he
cleared the way for her to where the man
was lying under a bootblacks awning,
and she knelt down and went to work as
though there wasn't spectator within a
mile
Take of his shoe, she said to the police
man while she ran her hands carefully over
the injured leg. The cop tried to pull the
shoe OF and it wouldn't come. The patient
groaned.
'No, don't hurt him. said Dr. Dunning:
'here, cut it Of, and she produced a pair
OF scissors from her kit The cop did as
he was told. Then the doctor ripped the
clothing around the injured leg diagnosed
1t as a compound fracture Of the femur
and put on temporary bandage and
splints.
Now put him on the stretcher," she
said to the driver and the policeman.
Tho crowd separated as he was carried
TO the ambulance. DR.. Dunning swung
In after the patient, and away went the
ambulance with gong changing.
Say, she's ali right. Never saw any
thing more busineesliks. She'll do"
1t doesn't take news long to travel on the
lower East Side, and by noon everybody
was on the lookout when an ambulance
bell was heard. That Ia why two OF the
Madison street plain-clothes mon remained
until tho ambulance came when they ran
across a sailor whom a policeman had
found in a bad way and had taken to a
lodging house at rs Catherine ship.
They saw the ambulance come down
the street, bouncing along on the rough
pavement, and on the back seat DR.. Dunning,
with her arm In the strap, looking as though
she had been jounced In an ambulance AL
her life. Behind the wagon followed q
crowd Of men, women and children, who
gazed respectfully. The doctor didn't mind
going into a longshoremens hotel and
found her patient In dirty sitting room
on the second floor, with a lot Of pipe
smoking sailormen looking on.
The patient was Jacob Lind, and he
appeared TO be In a bad way. Out came
the stethoscope, and q number Of questions
showed that Lind was much the worse for
liquor. He complained Of a pain in his side
and said he wanted to 60 to the hospital.
SO there he went and was put down on the
slip as suffering from alcoholism.
In the afternoon DR.. Dunning had real
drunk to attend to at 100 Bowery, and there
was another crowd rubbering at the
woman surgeon. The drunk had cut his
head and was ugly, but policeman was
on hand, and DR.. Dunning tackled him IS
though he had been a three months old