5.
Full hospital transcripts of every patient seen
at Tripler, Brookhaven Institute, the Cleveland
General Hospital, or at Guam should be obtained
and these full records should be returned to
Marjuro for the investigation and the study of
physicians who need them for treatment.
It is
impossible
for a physician to treat with best
results patients without fully knowing prior
records, and from my visit to the hospital I
learned rather clearly that the records
from
Hawaii or from the United States were not getting
back to the several physicians at the hospital,
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thereby hampering their work.
All data in the possession of the AEC or Brook-
haven on the redioactivity of the soil and most
particularly the foodstuffs of the island should
,
be revealed fully to the Marshall Island authorities.
A study of the migration of larger fishes and
birds between the islands possibly carrying
food-chain radioactivity shouid be undertaken.
(I understand lobsters migrate communally relatively long distances.) Tuna and large fish
swin from atoll to atoll.
I am going to state clearly however at this point
and in this context,
that in some circumstances
I
have
not been impressed with the assiduity of the Trust Treaty
physicians or the Atomic Energy Conmission physicians.
For example, there was a general complaint of dimming
Vision some five or six years ago on Utric,
to an increased incidence of cataracts.
probably due
None of the
people from Utric that I spoke to told me that any physiClan examined their eyes in such a way as to be able to
recognize cataracts.
Instead
I wes told that two bexes
of eyeglasses were shipped to the island being of vérious
models and frames, and the people were to come in and
choose whichever eyegless seemed to help them.
And this
was the sum of the investigation and treatment of the eye
problems,
cataracts.
-- of what
I
think is a unique epidemic of
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