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insurance companies. They would go to these two social workers for advice on typical problem cases that they didn't know what to do with. They'd say, “I think she's playing hookey. I think she's playing sick. I think she doesn't work. Will you have a talk with her, Mrs. Goericke?” This was on one claimant who had hysterical paralysis. They were wonderful on the hysterical cases. They didn't know anything about modern psychiatry, but there was an occasional case of an hysterical person - hysterical paralysis or an hysterical condition - when the actual physical condition was all right.

There was one case of a girl named Stella who was as pretty as she could be who had been hit on the head by something falling in the place where she worked. She was injured and had a bad period for a while. It was at least a month or so after her injury that she began to be paralyzed. Her paralysis increased. No doctor could find any reason for it. She was so pretty, so genteel and so attractive that the insurance company wanted to get Stella well. They did everything they could for her. They got her a wheel chair. They got her an attendant. This was all part of the medical care that they were required to give. She couldn't go home because her family lived in a six floor walk-up. So they got her a place to live in a hotel with an elevator. She