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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN Monday, Jan. 31, I9.72.RI Young Yanks ffosfflhl Adds Pictures to Record Tell Russians tient refused to have, pho- A tos taken. "We recognize the hif'-w man right to privacy anfl" now ask the patient to ilgnrb a form permitting us 'to' take the Bird says. He adds, that Ihe pictures are treated 'as1' confidentially as any part-'' of the medical record. rays are frequently kept in another part of a hospital and an old picture might reveal how a person with a hip ailment used to stand or sit at an earlier age, and this could help doctors diagnose his problems now.

Dr. Bird says he knows of no instance when a pa How We Live notes written by physicians, nurses and all sorts of health professionals." With the present doctor shortage, each doctor is pressed for time and tends to limit, cither consciously or unconsciously, a data lie puts into the record, Dr. Bird says. "With visuals, the clinician can collect more information inbuilt a patient than can he vriiici dowi 'i rcrsonn'ilc period of lime," he Dr. Bird says that copies of X-rays and even pictures from a family snapshot album could be included in the record.

X- Jha Spinal Column liplash" Most Common Injury In Auto Accidents which does not need a flash. A clinician can find in the records a color photo of a swollen arm which makes its present size and color more meaningful in judging the treatment. Dr. Bird sees photography as only the first step in the medical record of the future, which could eventually include sound recording, sketches special typewriters. "I'm certain the mod'ei record of the future will be a type of video recording," Dr.

Bird says. For example, he says, a patient who has a heart attack and respiratory complications would bo recorded as soon as he entered the hospital. Then, even years later, a doctor treating the patient will be able to see the symptoms of the attack as they happened and not have to read "breathing heavy, facial discoloration" on an obscure medical form. And "with the visual approach," he says, "we can save hours of descriptive time, hours of laborious reading and of deciphering BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts General Hospital is experimenting with adding color pictures to medical records to overcome several problems of writ-t communication, including sloppy handwriting by doctors. Under the direction of Dr.

Kenneth T. Bird at the hospital's Logan Airport Medical Station, the staff is snapping pictures of everything infected toes to severely cut heads and placing these photos into the records. "The records system of America today is largely word oriented, and, unfortunately it's in the worst mode "handwriting," Dr. Bird says. "Vision is not properly utilized in records.

"Doctors up to now tend to communicate with so many people in handwriting that it gets sloppy in a hurry," Dr. Bird says. "The handwriting of the physician is notoriously poor." The visual experiment is siaiting small, using inex-p i cameras and high-speed color film 'fe'-ft Have you JmSmr bcen'hc hlWIKp victim of a TCVflft rearend auto Wm. 0Rl collison? Do Or I Rrflftkt vMir tinad lnrrhivt Kick- ROYALTY celebrated Sunday in Amman, Jordan, the I Oth birthday of Prince Abdullah, eldest son of King Hussein. The prince is shown in his latest picture in military uniform.

(AP Wirephotol Group Plans Voter Registration Drives CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) Vernon E. Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, said Saturday the organization will launch voter registration drives tins year in the North and West comparable to drives conducted in the South in the 1960s. Thcv can be immediately-evident; the stiff neck, hcad-y ache, possibly nausea delayed for as much as a week. But left untreated a whip--, lash can be only the first many problems. Chronic mi- grainc headaches, extreme' nervousness, arthritis all have been traced to untreated whiplash injuries.

"-In short, to ignore a whip-' lash is sheer stupidity. If-' you're involved in an accident arrange for a compictc and thorough examination. It may save you a lifetime of misery. Dr. E.L.

Brooks, D.C. WS 23rd 52S-7419 NEXT ARTICLE NEXT MON. U.N. Official Arrives For Talks in Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Roberto Guyer, the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, arrived here Sunday for consultations with the Cyprus government and Turkish Cypriot leadership on the reactivation of deadlocked talks for a settlement of the Cyprus conflict. ward "at the moment of impact and then whipped forward violently? Whether or not you've had this experience, 'I'm sure noii'II recognize the whiplash heck injury.

And if you rc involved in an accident you'll ho playing with fire if you don't seek an immediate and thorough examination. The symptoms of a whiplash are frequently varied Americans don't seem to realize that this- show is a great revelation lo people who don't have these things. "One of our guides had a difficult time explaining the other day that he had two cars at home one for him to use to go to work and the other for his wife to shop. They found it incomprehensible. "They kept pushing him on it: 'do you really have two cars? You must be a very rich man'.

Hcro.one car is out of reach for the average person." One of the most popular items at the exhibit has been a Lincoln Continental Mark 111. Every day i a have swarmed around the car, peering under its- hood and feeling the red leather upholstery. Tne guides said that besides cars the Georgians seem most interested in housing, clothing, health services, freedom to travel abroad, food, comparative prices and entertainment. "I would say they're interested in almost every aspect of American life," said Shota Sagirashvili. "They know very little about it or have a very poor understanding of it." At 42, Sagirashvili is the oldest of the guides and Ihe only one who speaks Georgian.

He is of Georgian extraction and a naturalized American citizen who works in Washington for the Voice of America radio station. Sigarashvili said some visitors to the exhibit asked him the other day about his home in Hyattsville, Md. "I told them I had a house and some property around it a yard where I plant crab grass. They wanted to know why I don't plant cucumbers or tomatoes." Plots of private land arc highly coveted in the Soviet Union and people who have access to them grow their own vegetables, often in short supply in the stores. "I was demonstrating an electric wafflemaker at mv stand," said Cathy McCallick, 26, of Santa Monica, Calif.

"A little Jewish man asked me if I could make matzoth on it and if we have matzoth in America. "I told him there arc a lot of Jewish restaurants and delicatessens where you can get matzoth, bagels, lox, all sorts of things." She said Ihe man told her matzoth-making is viewed as a religious rite in the Soviet Union and requires a license. Waldheim in Kenya MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim arrived Sunday on a three-day visit. TBILISI, U.S.S.'R. (AP) Twenty-three Americans, all of whom speak Russian, have bepun a six-month visit lo the Soviet Union to try ti show how people live in the United States.

They are guides at a U.S. exhibit called "Research and Development U.S.A.". a display of American gadgetry ranging from computers to cof-feemakers which opened in this capital of, Soviet Georgia Jan. 24. The guides are assigned to the exhibit to explain how the equipment works and what it's used for.

But they have had to field questions on such' varied topics; as the Vietntm war. American rock groups and the planned world championshb chess match between Anerican Bobby Fischer an( Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. "The guides has been instructed not to Initiate political discussions." said exhibit director John Thomas. "But they ire not going to walk away if people ask questions." "These people an information-starved. Thy hang on every word yoi say," added one of the guides, Nick Grigorovirh-larsky, 2G, of Washington.

stand there like ponges and take pvcrythig in." "The most eo union qucsrion concerns he pur-chasing power of the American said Al Estrin. 35, an inustrial engineer from W'anington and one of the older guides. "They wnt to know how much everything costs." Most of the guies are in their early or aid-20s. Many of them stuced the Russian language nd Soviet affairs in collqc and view iheir visit to tp Soviet Union as a tearing experience. Other g.

i have Russian parots and learned the laiiguge at home, Frank Shakcspero, director of the U.S. Iforma-tion Agency who cficially opened the exhibit, raised the guides as the cchibit's "human clement" ind an ideal way to establsh people-to-people contat with the Soviets. This group of guies will stay with the exrbit for six months while tours three Soviet cities-Tbilisi, Moscow and AnotJier group willrelieve them for the secqd six-month period and tc final three cities Kazai, Do-mctsk and Leningr.d. The exhibit cami to the Soviet Union' undei a mutual agreement on -ultural exchanges. An exibit of Russian folk art opned in Washington Jan.

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