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By Susan B. Lynch
Staff Writer
Are house calls a thing of the past?
USC. .
If an on-campus student is sick and
go to Thomson Student Health Cent
center sends a medic to the student'!
after regular hours, according to W<
Caruthers, the center's business man;
He said the medic goes to the sti
room and communicates with the reg:
nurse on duty with a walkie-talkie.
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THE MEDIC treats the student
instructions from the nurse, he said. '
This service is free.
Ken Corbin, a full-time medic, work
11 p.m. to 7 a.m. This is the first sei
the center has employed a full-time m
Six part-time medics each work 1
hours a week on a rotating shift. The
at the health center from f? p.m. to mi
and from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays
also work from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. IV
through Thursday at the physical edi
center.
Caruthers said the part-time medic
one night at the health center and on<
at the P.E. center each week. Medi
also required to work the late shi
weekend nights a month.
"WK DON'T ASK our medics tc
those late hours more often becaus
are students, and the burden would
great," he said.
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Three standby medics are available
work when necessary.
Not at The medic team at the health cen
consists of one female and five male U
cannot undergraduates.
er, the Three medics are studying medical fie
s room ~ pharmacy, nursing and biology.
>odrow 0ne medic is studying pre law, and t
ager. are computer science majors.
ident's The health center employed milit;
istered medics who had served in Vietnam fr
1972 until 1975, Caruthers said. After the v
ended, these medics became scarcer, i
under the health center began hiring emerger
. medical technicians.
s from EMTs MUST pass a course offei
mester statewide in various technical schools,
edic. examination must be passed before
2 to 15 EMT receives a state license.
y work Midlands Tech offers the EMT cour
idnight Caruthers said. The 100-hour class consi
They 27 sessions and a weekend internship
londay emergency room treatment, Caruthi
ication said.
Caruthers stressed that a medic
s work qualified only to administer first aid.
e night "A registered nurse is on duty af
cs are hours," he said. "She is the responsi
ft two medical person. The RN makes a
necessary medical decisions. The me*
. merely assists the RN.
work ARTHUR YEH, a computer sciei
e they major, received his medic certificat
be too from Midlands Tech in September 1979 i.
has worked at the health center since
2r arrested after figl
the three women in said yesterday that Ellis I
car, Carlen said. not been suspended from
len said he thought fo?M>allteam.
parties were at fault. Raymond Hudson, 52
'as dumb of both par- in satisfactory <
he said. Carlen said he at Richland Memo
;ht drinking caused the Hospital. Larry Hudson 1
?nt. treated for an eye injury
university spokesman released.
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By Robert Reeves
Staff Writer
The Rev. Steve Lynch of St.. Thomas
Catholic Center calls himself "a mode
Van Winkle." He has spent much of hii
life away from American culture
missionary in Japan.
Lynch, 54, left for Japan in the sumi
1957. With the exception ot tour short
home, he was out of touch with Am
|g life until his return in 1977.
"There was so much that I missed i
20-year span," Lynch said. "The Kc
years, Vietnam, the turbulent '6
general and the Watergate era are
vague to me because I wasn't here
M perience them and just saw them tt
!|| the newspapers."
| LYNCH SAII) returning to the
IStat.es produced a type of reverse c
shock. "It was culture shock to
America and go to Japan, but after sp<
so much time there it was another sh
come back," he said.
After returning to the United !
Lynch went to graduate school at B
for a year and earned a master s dej
bioethics.
I I went to Berkley to try to conden
year of graduate school some of wha
missed in the previous 20," Lynch s
chose bioethics because there are sc
questions today in regard to such thi
birth control and abortion."
Lynch took over at the Catholic Ce
the fall of 1978. "I saw a real need v\
Berkley in campus ministry in tha
students are very goal-and career-n
religion just isn't their bag," Lync
"Students have a very broad concept
and religion, but those concepts ar<
very important part of their lives."
IN THAT CONTEXT, Lynch s
lergency h
to 1980 spring semester.
Before being employed by the
ter center, Yeh worked as a volunteer
SC with the Richland County Erne
MoH ipal Spruipp
Ids Yeh said most of the injuries after i
health center hours occur at the P.E.
wo Intramural sports, especially f<
result in frequent accidents, he said,
ary "It doesn t really make any dif]
om what day of the week it is for a grea
var injuries to occur," Yeh said. "For ex
ind I worked one night when all the tre
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te to me because / wasn 't
-the Rev. Steve Lynch
ry readjusts
imerica
<ear absence
considers the college campus as much of a
mission field as Japan.
More Lynch said he spent his first three years in
n Rip Japan learning the language at a Tokyo
adult school. Then he spent the next 17 years
as a working with the small groups of Japanese
Catholics, running a Japanese kinlerof
dergarten, working with a leper colony and
visits teaching in a Japanese university.
irican Lynch said the ancient Japanese culture
is still strongly entrenched in some areas,
n that but Japan is greatly influenced by Westcn
medy culture, especially that of the United States
)s in "The young people are much the same as
very they are here in that they like the Westeri,
to ex- styles of clothing and music and don't seem
rough to have a strong desire to cling to the old
traditions,'' Lynch said.
Jnited "IN THE '50s and '60s especially, the
ulture Japanese had a great love and respect for
leave America," Lynch said.
inding To illustrate this point, Lynch said he first
ock to learned of the assassination of John F.
Kennedy from a teary Japanese farmer
Itates, high in the mountains.
*rkley
ree in "I was surprised that he had even heard of
J.F.K., much less be in tears about it,"
;e in a Lynch said. "It was one of the very few
I had times that I ever saw a Japanese man cry.
lid. "I They just don't do it."
many For a week after the assassination. Lynch
ngs as said, the people of the town where he was
working came to him and offered sympathy,
iter in Lynch has written a book about his exhile
at periences with a Japanese title that tranwhile
slates "The Lord of the Heavens." The book
inded, has been sent to New York publishing
\ said, houses.
of God "I get letters saying they like the book but
not a want me to rewrite certain parts of it,"
Lynch said. "But I'm so busy here catching
up with life in the present that it's hard to go
lid he back and relive that past again."
ouse calls
rooms were filled. The next night was
health calm."
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'gency For serious medical problems, an ambulance
is often needed to take a patient to
egular the hospital. Caruthers said the health
center. center pays for ambulance fees when the
otball, center calls the ambulance service. He
estimated the center calls four to five
erence ambulances a month.
many Ambulance services are most often
ample,.. needed at night because a staff physician is
itmeni not on campus, Caruthers said.
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