Evening star., 1941-03-07

M. S. Executive Committee, Garfield
and Episcopal Hospitals; DR.. Ed
ward Hiram Reede, D. M. S. Execu-
tive Committee; DR.. William M.
Sprigg, chairman of the D. M. S.
Executive Committee, Columbia
Hospital; DIR. William j. Stanton,
Georgetown University Hospital
staff; DR.. j. Ogle Warfield, Hospital
Committee of the D. M. S., of which
he was chairman, Children's and
Garfield Hospitals; DR.. Prentiss Will
son, Columbia Hospital staff; DR..
Wallace M. Yater, D. M. S. Execu-
tive Committee, Georgetown Hos
pital staff.
After the jury had asSented for
mally to the directed verdict, the
defense opened testimony to answer
the Justice Department charges of
hampering activities of G.. H. A.,
medical cooperative of this city.
Sandidge Takes Stand.
William E. Leahy, defense counsel,
called to the stand B. B. Sandidge,
superintendent of Emergency Hos
pital, who identified the clinical
record" of Miss Sara Abbott, a
G. H. A. patient who previously had
testified.
The record of Miss Abbott was
identified by DR.. Francis J. Eisen-
man, superintendent of Garfield
Hospital. She was transferred there
from Emergency Hospital, but the
doctor said he had no personal
knowledge of the facts stated in the
records.
Miss MILNE Realinni, supervisor
of medicine and surgery at Sibley
Hospital since January, 1888,
identified the records of Charles
Hardin, jr., a former patient, who
was admitted at Has pm. on June
10, 1885, the witness testified. She
said she believed Mr.. Hardin's BROTH
er-in-law was with him when he
reached the hospital and he already
had been booked for an operation.
Mrs. Hardin gave her the informa-
ton she put on the record and the
witness explained Mr.. Hardin was
sent to the floor Immediately to be
prepared for the operation and she
filled out his admission record.
The brother-in-laW was sitting at
the desk at the admitting Office
and he used the telephone there,
but the witness declared she did not
hear what he said.
No Courtesy Privileges.
Later, Miss Realinni said, the
brother-in-law passed the telephone
to her and the person on the other
end of the wire identified himself as
DR.. Raymond E. Selders, who wanted
to know if he could come to the hos
pital and operate. Miss Realinni
said she told the doctor she was
sorry, but that Mr.. Hardin had a
doctor-Dr Louis Bachrach.
DR.. Selders, however, said Mr..
Hardin was his patient, the witness
testified, and he insisted on perform
ing the operation, but she told him
he did not have courtesy privileges
and the patient had an attending
physician.
Miss Realinni said DR.. Selders
asked her what authority she had TO
bar him from the hospital and she
said she did not have any but was
carrying out her duties. She testi-
fed that when she asked DR.. Selders
if he wanted to talk to DR.. Bachrach,
DR.. Selders said No" She said she
had no instruction to call Mrs.
Hardin or the brother -in-law to the
phone to talk to DR.. Selders.
Miss Realinni said there was moth
ing unusual in the rule of the hos
pital that only members on the
courtesy staff could operate.
Tells of Previous Experience.
She testified she had had expert
ence in supervisory capacities pre-
viously in birmingham, Milford and
Boston. Mass, and said similar
courtesy rules were in effect there.
She testified she made report to
Sibley Hospital about the Selders
incident next morning. She identi-
fled this on the witness stand. She
contended she had never heard of
DR.. Selders' connection with the
Hardin case until the brother-in-law
handed her the telephone.
Spirited argument marked the
session of court yesterday. De-
fenSe counsel attacked the Govern