he Hospital's combined medical and dental staff of over 400 supported the Naval Training Center and other military installations in the Central Florida region, as well as dependents and retirees.
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The ward censuses did play a big factor in who worked where. I know when I worked ICU/CCU we could get pulled to almost anywhere, mostly to Medical or Surgical wards. I got pulled to ER once and got pulled a couple of times for critical care transfers. I never did work Pysch or Peds though.
Does anyone remember the Viet Nam Veteran in ER holding a crew hostage for about an hour?
I think it all depended upon the ward census and how many techs were available for a particular shift. You would know by the schedule when you had duty but usually didn’t know till duty started where they wanted you. As an Ward 12 HM, I usually stood watch on Ward 11 next door but occasionally, right at shift change, they would have me head down to the Psyche unit. I don’t remember ever having to do anything, just an extra body if you needed help at night. You’re right, I remember that little room
that's a great story ... I remember being punched once or twice ... all in a day's work.
Used to have Corpsman from the Recruit Evaluation Unit at NTC stand duty on the Psych ward at night and on weekends ... slept over night in a small room in the hall way between the ward and the doctor's offices. How did you get stuck with that duty?
A short sea story; as a ward Corpsman, I occasionally had to stand overnight duty at the Psych ward. Somewhere around 1973, when I was off of the Ward and worked with Hospital Transportation, I had to do a road-trip to Patrick AFB in Coco Beach to deliver a psych patient to be medevac’d to Bethesda with Organic Brain Syndrome. I drove a station wagon ambulance and had a Psych Tech onboard as an attendant. The patient was premedicated and appeared normal and talked to us all the way down. Once on the flight line waiting for the plane outside of the car, the patient all of a sudden slugged both of us, knocked us both down, and took off across the tarmac. The Air Police ran him down and took him to the ER where they Thorazine’d him up. When the plane arrived, the Flight Nurse wanted to take his straps off. We explained what happened and advised them not to do that unless they wanted some in-flight issues. When we got back to NRMC, folks wanted to how I got the black eye.
Mr. Burns you remembered the Psych Ward down by the chow hall ... I was Senior Corpsman there in '71-'72, before that at the Recruit Evaluation Unit at NTC. I lived in the barracks behind the hospital from '69 to '70, then moved off base to the del Coronado apts near of base off of West Colonial.
My tour at Orlando was uneventful except for an Article 15 ... CMDR Maun was head of the nursing corps and decided she was going to do all of the staffing and duty assignments for the hospital (it had been done by the Senior Corpsman on each ward). She and I had a conversation about it and we disagreed about the changes ... I did not like it and told her so. Big mistake. Next thing I know the I get a call from the Master-at-Arms and I am charged with several violations of the UCMJ as a result of that conversation ...who'd of thought.
I was scheduled for a Captain's Mast and of course my commanding officer Dr. Golwyn wanted to know why. I explained and he did not like what CMDR Maun was proposing to do, so he talked to the Captain and CMDR Maun was told not to change the scheduling, to leave it in the hands of the Senior Corpsman on each ward. At the Captains Mast I was found "guilty" of "disrespect to a superior commissioned officer" and I apologized on the spot. I was fined $25. But the Senior Corpsman remained in charge of scheduling. If CMDR Maun had not filed an Article15 against me then she probably could have gone ahead with her plan and no one would have ever known. But the Article 15 escalated the whole thing to the Captains attention and he over ruled her plan ... so it was worth the 25 bucks I was fined. This was probably in early 1972.
Thanks for all of your comments and the pictures. Brings back a lot of things I have not thought about for a long time. Sad the place isn't there anymore, and the NTC is gone, too ... It is like apart of my life is missing ...
Being a Corpsman is the most important thing I have ever done. I teach government and politics at a college in California and have been the faculty advisor to the Veteran's Club on campus ... the Marines still call me "Doc".
The Navy gave me a chance to make a difference and I will be forever grateful.
Oh yeah, ENT clinic was in Ward 15 and one of those other Wards, I think 16, housed Dental..
And for the life of me I can't remember where the Surgery and Orthopedic Clinics were. Internal Medicine was near Ward 3, was that maybe what was in Ward 13/14/15?
Now I remember the walk-in clinic being named Acute Minor Care Clinic, AMCC.
I've seen the abbreviation AAMC to, what do those initials stand for?
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