A POTOMAC DOCTOR HELPS DEUVER TWINS 2,000 MILES AWAY

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Hayman Cash RegisUsr Co. "He had a woman m South America who was expecting twins.

"I called Dr. Greenfleld and I told him I had a medical mission in South America and a pregnant woman who weeded medical advtee." he said in an interview yesterday. "I asked him ifhe wouldhelp out."

For the next 45 minutes. Green- f*eld. 40. talked from the phone in his Womc at 2 Colebrook Court to the doctor in Guyana, giving him instructions on how to perform a Caesarean section on the woman. By using a special apparatus, Hayman was able U) "patch" Greenfield's telephone into nis ham radio so Uiat the two doctors could carry on a two-way conversation

WHllE GREENFIELD Ulked. thousands of ham radio operators here and in other parts of the country tuned in and listened.

One man said Uiat after listening to the instructions he personally thought he could perform the surgery. said Hayman, who has been a Kam operator for 20 years. His call totters are K3DML.

"Tbe doctor in Uie Jungle had made a diagnosis of twins by ptocina his hands on the woman's abdomen, said Greenfield.

"One of the twins was In a heao down or vertex positk>n and the oUier was in a breach or bottom down posi- tton."

"1 taUied him through the entire operation." said Greenfield, an obstetrician for the past 12 years. "I sure waa nervous. I wanted u> be sure 1 gave him every detail. I was oversimplifying things.

"After eachdeUil, I'd say. 'Do you foik>w me?' and he'd say eiUier *Yea go on Ui the next step,' or he'd say, rCouIdyourepeatthat'

BY Il rjN. MONDAY. GrcenfiebJ had finished giving instructions for Uie delivery as wc!ias postoperative orders.

"That was a first for me.” said the doctor.

"We were waiting on uns and needles u> hear from Uie doctor ш Guyana."

*'Al (Dr. Grrrnfield) cxprci*ed douhi to me personally whether ,my of them — the mother .md iwin* —

Dr. Albert A. Grccnficld1 an obite- trician. was about to retire for the nl|hi Hc sat in his pajamas In a small room off his bedroom in Potomac, flipping through a medical journal on pediaUic and adolescent gyne- cok>gy.

Two blocks away, his friend Richard W Hayman. wos tuming the diaU of his ham radio. He had just bacn talking to someone in Japan because he is planning a trip there in May.

Mora Uun 2,000 thousand miles away in the Jungles of Guyana, a country In the northeast comcr of South America, a woman two weak* overdue in her seventh pregnancy had been in labor more than 14 houn and was experiencing serious complications.

She couldn't be flown to the near- •st hospital, one hour away, tocausa a storm and ground fog prevented planes from taking off at the small airstrip seven miles away. The field is illummated only by kerosene lamps.

M THC NCXT few momenU, the Ilves of the Marvland men and the Guyana woman became Involved in an unusual medical drama. By the time it was over, the Potomac men had played a major role in the woman's delivery of identical twin girls, one weighing 6 pounds 4 ounces, the other 6pounds 2 ounces.

At 10 o'ctock Monday night, as Hayman was fiddling wiUi Uie dials on his ham radio in his home at 9908 Colebrook Ave.. he picked up an emergencycaM

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