<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5695005-77bd-4cbd-973c-e915b468a945/6B554743-EF00-4ADC-A99D-96976B418B28/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm" href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">americanhistory.si.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/americanhistory.si.edu/img/968CDBB7-BDD8-445E-9ADD-F3BE0BEDC07F" alt="Quote. I am in a ward with some thirty-five boys. I am almost the oldest, and certainly the sickest. I donít talk to anyone Ö I am so blasted out of myself. I canít figure out what has happened to me Ö and here I am in the football-field-length medical ward with noise from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., nonstop. End Quote. ñLorenzo Wilson Milam, early 1950s" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm"><P>During a 1934 epidemic in Los Angeles, 5 percent of doctors and 11 percent of nurses who treated polio patients contracted the disease. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm"><table background="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><P><STRONG>“The nurses caring for patients in iron lungs had to be attuned to their respiratory needs at all times to keep them alive, which meant being with the patient physically and psychically. Decisions had to be made regarding suctioning, postural drainage, giving oxygen, and the need for emergency tracheostomy, and nurses had to make these minute-to-minute decisions.”</STRONG><BR /><EM>—Lynne Dunphy, family nurse practitioner, 2001</EM></P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/americanepi/medical.htm"><table background="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><P><STRONG>“In the town of Hickory, in the western foothills of North Carolina, more than 100 children lie in hastily built beds…. The suddenness with which the disease struck overwhelmed ordinary medical facilities…. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis mobilized local and national resources to set up the emergency hospital.”</STRONG><BR /><EM>—</EM>LIFE<EM> magazine, 1944</EM></P></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B554743-EF00-4ADC-A99D-96976B418B28/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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