Vol. 3 -- # 10

    Remarks to the Ross Volunteers
At the University of Texas Science Center
Fifth Annual Robert E. Gross Symposium Dinner
       Houston, Texas
      February 19, 1983

(Volunteers were there as guests of The Brooks Foundation for Children, Inc.)

These remarks were given to the Ross Volunteers at the request of Dr. Benjie Brooks,
who was responsible for bringing together the three-day symposium on pediatric surgery
on "The Injured Child". These remarks were an effort to lift the discussion of the injured
child to a broader plain and to introduce the general concept of violence to this audience
as being the umbrella under which the injured child usually falls.

In addition to that, I also specifically spoke to the younger folk present at that gathering
by addressing the values on which they will be building their lives and the values that
hold meaning to them. I went into caring for our neighbor and specifically covered the
aging population and the disabled or special needs population.

The lecture began, as did the Robert E. Gross lecture given earlier the same day, but
stopped on page four and launched into my broader concept of violence. The new
material ended on what is here called page 12. The talk ended with the same ending of
that used in the Robert E. Gross lecture.
                         Accidents

Causes of injury to children
Disabilities
Emergency Medical System
Family abuse of children
Heart disease
Home care
Hospital competition
Life expectancy
Murder on television
Post treatment care
Pediatric surgery
Physical abuse of children
Pre-injury treatment care
Preventive medicine
Sexual abuse
Spinal ailment
Support services
Television

American College of Surgeons
"Early care of the injured patient"


Glasgow coma scale
Robert E. Gross
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
"Major Trauma Outcomes Study"