as to funds, but that he felt the study patients should be
indicated.
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In the afternoon, Bruce Wachholz and I had a meeting lasting approximately
3 hours, with John de Young and Ruth Van Cleve in the Department of Interior.
characteristics of the medical surveys so that they could understand why it
was impossible to make sudden radical changes in the logistic and manpower
requirements of those surveys while they're in the latter planning stayes or
in the field. They were rather surprised and very appreciative of this infor-+
mation.
In addition, we discussed at some length the question of compensation
for patients in the study group who had undergone two major surgeries. The
mast important case at the present time involves
who has developed
assured them that I would gather that clinical data as soon as possible and
pass it on to the Department of Interior for inclusion in their bill going to
Congress to establish a double compensation clause in the present compensation
bill.
The meeting adjourned at 5 PM and I then returned to Lng Island.
‘fhe
following day I contacted Dr. Aronson and informed him of the outcome of the
meeting.
On Monday morning at
7 AM I took off for Cleveland to suppore tha
Marshall Island patients at Cleveland's Metropolitan Hospital (Case Westein
Reserve)
who were being treated by Dr.
Brown Dobyns.
my presence during the operative period.
Dr.
Dobyns had requested
The visit to Cleveland was wneventcul.
The patients underwent surgery on Monday and Tuesday and I returned to Long
Island on Wednesday evening.
T+ would appear from the gross specimens and from
frozen sections that
exposed from Utirik, probably has a carcinoia
that was well encapsulated.
In addition, the last case that was done,
who is an unexposed Utirik lady, probably also has carcinoma.
‘The remainder of the 9 patients had either adenomas or were examined for post-operative
fcllow-up.
Of interest,
son of
had undergone a
thyroid
ectomy in Tripler Hospital for a mixed papillary follicular carcinoma in 1976.
Repeat
scans at Tripler had revealed that he had diffused pulmonary metastas2s
however workup at BNL revealed no evidence of pulmonary metastases therefore
Dr. Rrown Dobyns did a radical nectosection on the left where the scan had
indicated some functioning thyroid tissue.
This was excised en bloc and Dr. Dobyns
now feels that
has a good prognosis.
ArrangementS were made as soon a3
the patients were able to leave the hospital to move them into the nurses quarters
thereby reducing their costs from $260/day to $5/day and reservations were made
for the entire group to fiy to Honolulu on July 16, United Flight #3, to be met
by
the PASO staff for transfer to Majuro on the 18th.
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I informed them that I knew of at
least two or three other patients who had had two major surgical procedures ara
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hypoparathyroidism from her surgery in Guam.
reg ber
The meeting was held primarily to apprise them of the logistics and planning