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Show ,' ... '-'"if.. .-- : 1 , 3 ,v , Wi - - - '"T I if ! V)?- 4 r l ?) i -'v . 'Y ; isM'' r -c PKW.-iV'-- "'t J' Zl. S HasSLi 4. - lit 4.2? DR. DENNIS WINDER examines skin grafts on the arm of Mrs. Freda Phillips who was severly burned last month and treated in the Uintah County Hospital. Bum patient treated at county hospital January 8, Freda Phillips went outside her home to burn some trash. When the flames backfired on her and ignited her polyester blouse, about 25 percent of her body was severely burned, which began her long and painful treatment as a burn patient at rhliiipsi .remembers a hour her experience ex-perience is the fact that she was treated in the Uintah County Hospital. : ; "Everyone told. us to ship me to Salt Lae Cijy," said Mrs, Phillips, "but (here is-no way I could have gotten better treatment than I did." ft.tr 'Youbeara lot of back talk about the hospital, but I didn't find any," Mrs. .Phillips said. "The cooks, nurses and especially the. doctors gave me excellent ex-cellent care." For five weeks from the time Mrs. Phillips was admitted to the hospital, Jan. 8, she was in isolation to protoH her burns from infection. January 16 she underwent painful whirlpool treatments, when the burnt tissue is scrubbed off. In a week and a half tissue from unburnt parts of her body were grafted to her arms. This was the first of three skin grafts; the second was on her legs and the last was her abdomen. This is the first skin graft surgery at the county hospital. Today, Mrs. Phillips will be leaving he county hospital after six weeks of "I was mighty fortunate to have Dr. Winder, Ron Enloe and Karon Cassadv (physical therapist) here at the hospital," Mrs. Phillips said. Dr. Dennis Winder, Mrs. Phillip's ' doctor, said that burn patients can be " treated at the county hospital with the '. same care and facilities as Salt Lake hospitals if the burns are less than 30 percent of the body. "With more than 30 percent, the amount of nursing care required becomes too much," Winder said. Dr. Winder said that the skin grafts will only leave minor scars. Mrs. Phillips mentioned that the hospital isn't equipped with a Hubbard tank which is a facility similar to the whirlpool at the hospital, but has a hoist to lower the burn patient into the water. |