HOBZ4Y neh ae ae 5 Upton, N.Y. 11973 + Pear Bob, : | Kwajalein 1/14/74 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Ue ART ty : IS S Rye Be {Sey ATS We are safely back from Rongelap, and for once I can report on a succesful trip. It was brought short by the emergency evacuation of I had treated her for some time for what turned out to be the correct diagnosis: ‘Incomplete abortion with pelvic inflammation, but tha I decided that the odds for an extrau®ine pregnancy got so strong that I had to get her to Kwajalein before it was too late. We got in Saturgday, they operated on her ye@terday and she is now in good condition. From the time I called John Taman about the situation until the ship arrived 40 hours had passed, and it was another 20 hours before we docked at Kwajalein. This is hardly what I would call emergency response, but it is par for the course, and nobody in particular is to blame. I had the feeling of sitting on a time bomb, and I was kicking myself for not having pushed the panic-button sooner, cEOESS The situation brought home to me some of the dangers of my position, I do have a TT licnce to practiee medicine, so they cannot accuse me of illegal action; but I ama free lance operator as far as TT is concerned. My instructions from you Beql only with the thwyroid program. What happens when I get involved in case like that and I misjugde the situation andd the patient dies? Am I on my own? In that case I have to take out malpractice insurance, For it is, impossible to be there and not get involved and I cannot call in a ship for everybody with stomach pains or temperatures above 100. To you have some subgestion? On Bikini I counted 32 boxes of lead. There was 7 blocks showing, aand t.hey appeared to be <2 layers deep. All I could check were intact. If you need more | I am told that up the chain there are lead slabs whighing 5 tons each. JAist bring a blowtorch and start cutting a piece. Any way you can count on having about 450 blocks of standard size on Bikini. The whole body counter on Rongelap can also be easily reconstructed. I axa sure all the lead is there, Back to Bikini. It is several hundred yards from where the lead 1s sbtre dl to the closest bunker. It has many rooms; I measured those closest to the \ 2 enrance: 21 x 25 ft.3; 16 x 25 ft; and 16 x 20 ft. It will be tough try carry them there, and once they are on a vehicle I would suggest to tabe to the old power plant by the airstrip. It measures 47 x 36 ft. asaya is light and airy. The logistics of getting the patients there will ty, much simpler than dragging them way into the bugh. osHf7 30U_ Ir. Robert Conard, M.D. BNL, Medical Dept. 6 SN< 0 $/% them