Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.081704

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: DR. RICHARD PERRY, ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON WITH / PROJECT VIETNAM.; handwritten in pencil: 10-66-963; handwritten in pencil: SHEET 1 / [line] / [hash symbol] 10A; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNON MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR; Adhered typed label: The operating facilities here are quite adequate, but the post operative / care is very grim by our standards. Infections are the biggest problem / and much of the time spent away from emergency operations is spent in / debriding infectied wounds of paitents who have already been operated on. / It simply is impossible to maintain sterility under conditions in the hospital / wards for the Vietnamese ward nurses are not trained professionally and / really have no concept of the importance of sterility.

Tagasauris Keywords: 4 people; 4 people; Day; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Health; Hospital; Indoors; Low angle View; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Patient; Person; Physician; Scrubs; Still Life; Surgeon; Surgery; Surgical mask; Waist-Up Portrait; Woman; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / HOSPITALS
Retouching: N