SPRING 2006 KAISER PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital. The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney ailment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patie...

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory near the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project. Joseph Burkes MD SPRING 2006 KAISER PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital. The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering f...

SPRING 2006 KAISER PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital. The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney ailment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patie...