Cherry looked down into the contrasting faces: a plump Jewish grandmother, an Italian woman with a smile like a sunburst, a tiny littl Irish girl not much older than herself, a Slavic woman who spoke no English. And each patient's personality was so different, too ...
--From Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, pp. 60-61
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Thompson, Mrs.
Mrs. Thompson is one of Cherry's first patients, on Women's Medical Ward. Stern and middle-aged, she thinks Cherry at age eighteen--the same age as her own daughter--is "entirely too young to be in a hospital" (Student Nurse, p. 61). When Mrs. Thompson refuses to be discharged because she's enjoyed her "vacation" in the hospital, Cherry turns the tables on her by convincing her that her young daughter has probably made a shambles of Mrs. Thompson's home, and Mrs. Thompson had better go home and cope.
Torrington, Torry
The handsome foreman of the Twin Mounds Guest Ranch, where Cherry is a resident nurse, Torry Torrington is a college-educated cowboy who calls Cherry "Calammy, short for Calamity Jane" (Dude Ranch Nurse, p. 10), when she fails to complain about unfair treatment and lets others take advantage of her. Cherry "borrows" his car without permission to catch a thief.
Tucker, Jessie
Cherry's first private duty case is Jessie Tucker, a farm woman ill with pneumonia, whom Cherry nurses in her home, with the dubious assistance of Mrs. Tucker's taciturn husband and five eager children. Mrs. Tucker is initially querulous and unwelcoming, not wanting a strange woman in her house, caring for her and her children (Private Duty Nurse).
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