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Show National Health Unit Attacks Fatalistic Attitude on Mishaps Medieval fatalistic attitudes towards accidents was attacked, and the annual toll resulting from accidents recognized as an epidemic worse than any plague were keynote topics of the National Na-tional Health Council's 1962 Forum on Accident Prevention and Emergency Care concluded last week in Cleveland, Ohio. G. Ernest Bourne, Manager of the Utah Safety Council, attended attend-ed as a special invited delegate and participated in a discussion group on community action. Scores of delegates from various national, state, and local health, medical, and welfare organizations organiza-tions attended the three-day meet. Dr. Preston A. Wade, Committee Commit-tee on Trauma, America College of Surgeons, lashed out at the speeding ambulance and other deplorable deficiencies of ambulance am-bulance services and treatment of accident victims. He stated that very rarely is speed necessary neces-sary in transporting a victim from the accident scene to the hospital or clinic, and that injuries in-juries are frequently aggravated by improper care and transportation. transpor-tation. Local and state law governing gov-erning transportation and training train-ing requirements of ambulance attendants can do much to remedy re-medy the problem, he declared. Declaring that many machines and devices have been developed to a high degree of being "foolproof" "fool-proof" from a standpoint of safety, safe-ty, Harry T. Sealy, Vice-President of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, stated j that they are not yet "idiot- proof" and that people represent the real problem in safety efforts. v All right, so a man has to blow his horn once in a while. But i why does he always have to do it : while we're trying to make a 1 Ief turn? ' |