The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-21
DOCTORS COULD LEARN FROM FAWCETT
Denounces Sanderers and Says Guilty One Should Recant
and Go to Confession, Showing Respect to 9Th Com
nandnlent.
By JACOB WILHELM
Missionary Priest

Ludwig Ehrmanntraut, who died in
the hospital at Plentywood on the
8th day Of November, had the flu in
1919 from which he had never recOv-
cred.
HAD TUMOR BELOW LIVER
He was suffering from a growth on
the right side below the liver which
appeared to be a tumOr, with which
fact a number of my parish were
familiar for some time before the pa
tient went to the hospital at Out
look. For a week before he went to
the hospital he was sick in bed at
his home When he was Sc sick he
was about to die he went to the hos
pital.
WAS SICK LONG TIME
During the month of September and
October Ehrmantraut brought every
other day his wife to DR.. Fawcett at
Outlook to have a hand that was in
bad condition from blood poisoning
treated, which trouble was cured.
Therefore he had every chance to con-
suit the doctor regarding himself He
had been suffering in the intestines for
more than a year, especially during
the last harvest time when he COM
planned to others. For more than a
year he used medicine all CT the time.
When it was too late he went to the
doctor expecting a miracle.
DIR. FAWCETT UPRIGHT MAN
DR.. Fawcett is an upright man. He
told the relatives the truth frankly,
that the patient had cRly few weeks
to live. The doctor said to me, ''If
had told lies, spoken against my con-
yictions, they would have believed me,
but told the truth and they lost con-
fidence in me"
DIR. LEFT HOSPITAL SATURDAY
Further, DR. Fawcett told me that
he did not leave the hospital before
the afternoon of Saturday, November
3rd: that he visited the patient Fri
day evening November End, after the
operation and cn Saturday afternoon,
when the relatives were absent being
down town and the patient was sleep
ing. He took his pulse which he found
improved. He did not like to wake.
| the patient up He had nothing to
very competent nurse had the care Of
the patient under directions.
DOCTOR FOUND TUMOR
At the time of the operation, the
| doctor says, he found tumor, adhe-
sions and appendicitis He found it
necessary the first thing to wash the
pUs out at the bowels before he could
proceed with the operation. The ap-
pendix was not broken: neither was
it at the operation at Plentywood,
Sunday, December 1st One nurse
at the Plentywood hospital told me
that the appendix was not broken, bat
that the whole belly was infected.
/ SPREAD ISLANDER
Near and far was the slander start
ed against DR.. Fawcett spread out.
John Moser of Mount Green. Sask.,
friend and countryman of Ehrman-
| traUts of Russia wrote the German
newspaper, Thaabscnzeiger of Bis
marck, "that the doctor at Outlook
left the patient with open belly on the
table, that the patient died and the
doctor who was drunk fled from the
town."
It was written too by John Mcser,
that L. Ehrmanntraut was with his
wife on a visiting trip to Outlook.
when he became suddenly i'll, and
was taken to the hospital.
LIES SPREAD FORTH
Lies and calumnies and SANDER are
easier to spread than the truth Many
people do not care for the observation
of the EIGHTH Commandment of God.
DOCTOR NOT DRUNK
Mr.. Roderick, manager of the pool
room at Outlook told me that he had
observed DR.. Fawcett, and he can
swear with good conscience that DR..
Fawcett was not intoxicated or drunk.
And DR.. Fawcett told me that he did
not forbid the use Of the Outlook hos
pital to other doctors and never have,
and that patient has a right at any
time to change doctors, but that it
was wrong to take a patient in Ehr-
manntrauts condition, with a tube in
his belly, Is miles in an automobile,
over a rough road to another hospi-
tai, when the Plentywood doctors
could just as well have attended to
Ehrmanntraut at the Outlook hospital.
This can be done in closed am
bulance in a big town. It was at
least big risk, negligence and fool
! ishness, to bring this man in such
condition, the day after the operation,
with a tube in the belly to Plenty
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