New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
raterRae ()unsted
L or Reflls
Aid TO w oman
r. ssoIler Suspended From
Ambulance Service and
Relieved of Duties by
Flower Hospital Head
Unfit = Says Examiner
Alleged to Have Abandoned
Patient After Collapse
and Said, ssWhat of It?"

Dr.. Benjamin stolIer, Flower Hospi-
al ambulance surgeon, who declined
% take Mrs. Agnes Ross to the hospi-
a Sunday evening when she collapsed
Il the Grand Central Terminal follow
ny q hemerrhage Of the stomach, was
aspended from the ambulance service
csterlay and relieved of further duty
q an interne at Flower Hospital.
That was the answer to his retort:
What Of it?p when informed that
irs. Ross had been taken to Bellevue
iospital in taxicab and was in a
eTious condition. A complaint by the
olice Department was filed with
ames Murray, chief examiner of the
i1oard Of Ambulance Service, OF which
9elice Commissioner Enright IS head,
esterday morning. John j. O'Leary
as assigned to investigate the case,
nd before noon DR.. Stofler was under
1spension.
The executive committee of Flower
Tospital, of which DR.. F. NJ. Smith is
afe head, meets to-day for considera-
si5n OF DR.. Stolier's case. Officials of
he hospital said frankly last night
.that the ambulance surgeons suspen-
ion from the hospital staff probably
gould be made permanent.
"Unfit,7 Says Examiner
CDR. Stoller is found unfit for duty
as an ambulance surgeon on his own
tatement,n said Chief Examiner
Murray yesterday. "He can never
ride on an ambulance In New York
city again. The board has complete
control over all ambulances, private
ond public, except those operated di-
rectly by the Board of Health"
'Investigator OIseary ordered the
superintendent of Flower Hospital to
suspend Stroller as soon as he received
sae mans own explanation of the incl
lent. Rule 10 of the regulations gov
sruing the ambulance service of all
tospitals in the city says: When there
< any doubt as to the nature of a pa
TENTS illness or injury or as to the
proper tispositiop Of patient, the
ambulance surgeon must bring the pa
tent TO the hospital"
DR.. Stoller's written explanation ad-
dressed to Commissioner Coler of the
Department of Welfare, which en-
follows: 81 was called out at about
$50 o'clock on an ambulance call to the
Grand Central Terminal Sunday, Au
Gust 20.
sUpon arrival patient claimed she
had a bemorrhage of the stomach at
D. M, the same evening. When asked
Why ambulance wasn't called sooner,
she said She thought she would feel
better and wouldn't need hospital treat
ment. After examining her / found
there was no bleeding. She was just a
little dizzysy
Owing to the fact that she could
walk, | advised her to take taxi or
trolley car to the Bellevue Hospital
az did not think she was sick enough
TO be taken TO the hospital.
(Signcd) "BENJ. NJ. STOLLER, M. D."
Coler to Weed Out Service
Commissioner Coler said:
Some of these ambulance surgeons
seem to consider their work as just
another year Of college. Those are the
kind we want to weed out. This was
an especially hagrant case, apparently"
Major Louis Trirnble, superinten-
dent of Flower Hospital, said:
II am just as sorry about this bust
ness as | can be. 1t was blunder
and absolutely inexcusable. Imme-
diate action Is being taken. Such treat
ment is not in accord with the tradi-
ton or present policy of Flower Hos
pital.p
1t Bellevue Hospital yesterday after
noon ii was said that Mrs. Ross was in
q serious condition. DR. Koenig there
found that she was suffering from gas
tic Ilsters aud a hemorrhage of the
stomach The o-year-old son of Mrs.
Ross, whose home is in Chappaqua, N.
4, is being cared for by the Children's
Society