Page 10 University Daily Kansan, March 6, 198
Medicine still a challenge for doctor
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Reporter
If it's a sprained ankle, then it must be to do something else day or day mescales, then it has to be purged.
"I can almost tell the season by the type of illness or injury," Margaret Haggan, physician at Watkins Hospital, said. "During basketball season I treat any sprained ankle. In the fall we get all the injuries from intramural foot-ball."
"We dread that thoroughly. It's tackle football without equipment. There are broken collar bones, broken arms and concussions."
The beeyt intramural football players tower over the five-foot Haggag, who has been practicing medicine for nearly 40 years, including 12 years at KU.
For the doctor, whose long, white medical coat accents her gray hair, winter also has its own type of accidents.
"In slippery weather people are injured when they fall down," she said. "When it snows, there are severe concussions from trarying accidents. When it was more or less a vegetable from a trarying accident until she died."
Haggan, who has two daughters and three granddaughters, regards early summer as a "pediatrics practice" since the Midwestern Music and Art Camp and Boys' and Girls' State are held on the KU campus each summer.
"Some campers suffer physical injuries and also a great deal of home-sickness," she said. "Some feel lost, but when they come to the Health Service, they are a person rather than a number.
"It's a little bit of mental health and just plain mothering."
HAGAN'S GRAY HAIR and warm smile may help with the mothering. Even college students seem to benefit from her grandmotherly appearance.
"I's wonderful having gray hair," she laughed. "I do a lot of gynecology, but I also have guys come in with me." She seems less embarrassed with me.
Haggan, who is 62, graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1942. At first she wanted to be a doctor, but she decided to persist in gynecology and obstetrics.
At Michigan, the study of pediatrics discouraged her because many of her young patients were terminal. But when she switched to obstetrics, she had a chance to avoid the conflict between late night deliveries and caring for her own young children.
She seemed to have trouble finding the area of medicine that was best for her.
After an internship at Westchester City Hospital in New York, she applied for education in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Then Haggan worked in Kansas City with Dr. Joseph Webster in obstetrics and gynecology until her first child was born.
From 1982 to 1968, while her two daughters were growing up, Haggan was one of the school physicians for the Kansas City M., public school district.
THE MED CENTER was the only school that accepted Haggan, but then she left after a year.
"I was not happy there and I left by mutual consent," she said.
Haggan said school health was rather frustrating because she always had to refer the patients to a clinic or their personal physician.
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"I did find anything, I couldn't take care of it," she said. "During the year before we worked, the same bad teeth year after year until the dentist took them out."
"I arrived right at the time of the riots," she said. "The great unwashed was the favorite appearance of the students."
Dr. Margaret Haggan, a physician at Watkins Hospital, peers down the throat of Tom Rassler, a hospital employee. Haggan has practiced medicine for 40 years, including 12 years at the University.
A COUPLE YEARS later drugs were quite prominent, she said.
"I remember one of my first occupations was to babysit someone who had gotten an overdose of LSD," she said. "Later I shepherded a methadone clinic for several years when heron was a bit problem here."
One of the advantages of working in student health service is the doctors see many kinds of health problems, Hawaiian said.
"We do almost everything here," she said. "One time a student needs a dermatologist and you see him. The patient is an internal medicine, and you see him.
"The health service is like a group practice. The doctors here have different specialties, so if you are a little damped, you can always ask for help."
HAGGAN SPECIALIZES in gynecology and obstetrics.
"We don't do much obstetrics here, obviously," she said. "We don't deliver babies except by accident and even that happened to another doctor.
"We spend most of our time stamping out pregnancy. We do a lot of Paps and pelvic examinations, and we prescribe the pill."
Another of her jobs is advising women students who are pregnant.
"I've had girls who arrived in my office and say, 'I'm afraid I pregnant,' " Haggan said. "We do not do abortions here, we do with talk
the student about her plans and advise her if she wishes to terminate the pregnancy."
When Haggan first came to KU, abortions were not legal in Kansas, and most of the time there was at least one woman in the hospital suffering from an infection because of an unsafe abortion, she said.
"Since it is legal now, we can refer
to it," he said. "We rarely have an
infected abortion now."
Haggan said she was personally against abortion, but sometimes there wasn't any other option.
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بين المدرسة .
"If somebody decides that the way she wants to go, I can't see any point in having two deaths, rather than one," she said in a low voice.
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"If the student needs a prescription refilled, it may take five minutes, but a serious problem may take a half hour or 45 minutes," she said. "Sometimes it does feel as if it's one right after the other."
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Although Haggan's official work week is about 40 hours, it usually averages about 60 hours. On her days out, she visits a clinic in order to see how a patient is doing, she said.
"I make out laboratory skips by the ton," she said. "In private practice a doctor makes out lab records, but not 18 hours or one person. I'm delayed by paper."
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Haggan sees between 20 to 30 patients a day depending upon the complexity of the medical problem.
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"Just one day I decided I wanted to be a doctor," she said. "Don't ask me why. It certainly wasn't the doctors. I had come in contact with since I didn't like any of them. Maybe I thought I could do better."
"I enjoy the students," Haggan said. "That's my main compensation."
ANOTHER DEADVANTAGE to the job is the paperwork, she said from behind a desk almost covered with medical forms.
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