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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
On the afternoon of Nov. 22 I cut my hand deeply and severely in the Byerly Hall chemistry labs. I hurried to the nearby Radcliffe medical center, where, despite an obvious amount of blood, I was refused treatment by the secretary on the grounds that "We don't treat you here. It's the rules." She further refused to provide a temporary dressing, saying that the more the wound was touched, the more germs it would pick up. I walked to Stillman on her advice, where I was bandaged and, since no doctor was in attendance, given car fare to the Hygiene Building. About one half hour after the accident I received treatment in the form of two stitches.
If a relatively simple wound is handled in so dangerous a manner, then I submit that there is something radically wrong with our health system. . . . Herbert M. Wyman '57
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