Page 153 · Ship's Company
Page 153 of the USS Constellation (CV-64) 1994–95 WESTPAC cruise book — from the section “Ship's Company.”
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MEDICAL. DEPARTMENT 403 ag “1 solemnly pledge inyself before God and tffese witnesses to practice faithfully all of my duties as a member of the Hospital Corps. I hold the care ofthe sick and injured to be a privilege and a sacred trust and will assist the Medical Officer with loyalty and honesty...1 shall do all within my power to show in myself an example of all that is honorable and good throughout my Naval career.” 2 So goes the Hospitalman’s Pledge, a pledge that the 5.000 crewmembers aboard Connie can appreciate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Constellation’s Medical Department can handle almost any medical need from responding to a “man down” call to inspecting a galley. Medical services include: outpatient “sick call”” clinic, emergency room, operating room, 42 bed inpatient hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, medical supply. preventive medicine, occupational health, medical equipment repair. hearing tests, eye exams. x-rays, aviation medicine, medical administration, training. and, for General Quarters. six battle dressing stations. In an average month, the Medical Staff of 10 Officers and 44 Corpsmen will: evaluate 3,000 outpatients. perform 35 operations, admit 20 inpatients, dispense 7.000 prescriptions, perform 600 x-rays. run 2,000 lab tests. do 14 food service inspections, give» Commander John E. Tueller 300 shots, and test 360 water samples.