Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 28
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28Marcello :
Murphy:. . . but it's the sort of thing you have to do under situa-
tions like that.
In an emergency, you have to, yes. In fact, I think some
of the doctors had started doing the patients when they
were lying on field stretchers out on the floor; they started
attending to them until they could get them onto some kind
of a stretcher or operating table.
When you asked me of anything that was outstanding.
I think Miss Kristofferson did an outstanding job. She was
left in the eye, ear, nose, and throat ward by herself. In
the meantime, when I did get back that evening to my ward,
she had cleared all of the ear, nose, and throat patients
out; she had started getting casualties; and she, for one
person, had everybody tagged. She made tags out and tied
them on, because a lot of the boys did not have any identifi-
cation on. Some of them were able to tell who they were;
some of them she hunted among their belongings; or somebody
knew who they were. She had everybody tagged. She had a
record on everybody. I think she was one of the few nurses
that took time to do that. When I got there, everybody had
a tag on their bed--who they were--and they had a chart for
them.
Obviously, this sort of thing is very, very important.Marcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, Elizabeth. Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977, book, May 30, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98989/m1/30/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.