Round chutes used to slide patients (on mattresses) to safety from 2nd and 3rd floors. Orderlies ready to receive ‘volunteers’. Note ‘wartime’ student uniforms.
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Event is likely PNE or British Empire Games (held 1954).
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Event is likely PNE or British Empire Games (held 1954).
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Thought to be the move of Infant’s Hospital to its VGH site. Possibly Mary Richmond in photo. For context: Ethel Warbinek – “When I was a student in...
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VGH O.R. scene, or O.R. in Willow Chest. Capped and gowned O.R. team during surgery.
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The Interns’ residence @ the S.E. corner of 11th Ave and Heather St. Art deco exterior and interior had large rooms and beautiful woodwork.
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Marion Pinchin (Royal Columbian grad), Supervisor O.R., and Horace “Horky” P. Graves, Head of Anaesthesiology, in the orthopedic room at Heather O.R.
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Joan Burnett and possibly Dr. Preto in scrubs and masks, in the orthopedic room at Heather O.R.
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Artificial kidney built on an old washing machine, sited on the B4 ward. Pictured with staff from B1 (research ward) who were responsible. Dr. Russell Palmer pictured.
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VGH “campus.”
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