Operating Room

FISCAL 1991 REPORT: A VERY GOOD YEARIn Fiscal Year 1991 (July 1990 to June 1991), Carroll County General Hospital has made tremendousadvances which have had an impact on both the number of services available to patients and the way those services are delivered. Some of the more important changes are:SURGICAL ADVANCESThe trend toward more outpatient procedures and a shorter stay in the hospital continues, thanks to new equipmentand new procedures. Patients are back in their home environment sooner and often heal more quickly.

Doris Graybill is probably too modest to admit it, but the Carroll County General Hospital employee is an unsung hero.Thanks to her, doctors and surgeons are assured that the operating room and surgicalinstruments they use to operate on patients and deliver babies safely are properly cleaned and sterilized."

Financially strapped Kirschner Medical Corp. received a lift from Maryland National Bank in the form of an agreement to restructure $17.3 million in debt, Kirschner said yesterday.Arrangements were also made to link a $12 million line of credit to inventory and receivables, according to Dr. C. Scott Harrison, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer."Kirschner had a large amount of debt that was demand debt, which means that it could be called at any time," Dr. Harrison said.

THE GUILTY verdict is in and the big fines have been imposed, but countless Americans still believe that a woman reporter's place is not in the locker room of a professional football team.When this furor first erupted, I received mounds of letters from men and women. The majority of them said that female sports reporters aren't really looking for news stories; they are shameless hussies who want to enter locker rooms to gaze upon the players' sex organs.At first, I disagreed, saying that the players could easily resolve the dispute by donning robes or wrapping towels around their waists.

WESTMINSTER -- Some people get nervous leaving their cars with new mechanics.But perhaps the ultimate act of faith is to give up all control of your body to strangers, before losing consciousness.Every weekday, about 30 people -- anesthetized and cut open -- trust a team of physicians and nurses at Carroll County General Hospital to care for them while in this vulnerable state.The alternative, for George Siegman, would have been to lose the vision in his right eye to a cataract. The choice was not a difficult one, he said.