Telegram-herald., 1890-08-09
HERE'S PHASE
The Hospital Problem is Nearing
3 Happy solution.
OsE SHORI STEP AID ALL Is WELL
A Movement Now IBcubaung Among
the hOneOPaths 40 Give Up St
sIark's Hospital 80 Ia Own
ldeas-lhc 4 B. A stan.

HKRALp reporter, purely as venture,
10 one OF the best known homeopathic
physicians of the city, II am glad 10
learn that hospital almatters are 50 nicely
settled"
The doctor. looking up quizzicaliy,
replied.
where didl you catch thai' SIT
down. You are both right and wrong.
The hospital question viii never be
settled unul 1t Is settled right. The
time has gone by when small coterie
OF men can seize possession OF public.
Institutions and rAn them 10 their peg
sonal advantage at the expense of
Others. Don't forget again that the
hospital question is not settled fully.
There is even now a pot boiling which,
as the Irishman SAID, will be heard
good way unless It's nipped in the bud"
81 am ali ears" SAID the reporter"
Can you tell me all about itg"
"It IS as yet profound secret, and /
should get roasted if anybody should
lean who gave it way. To understand
the situation, however, you must recall
several things well known, but easy 10
Jet slip out OF the mind. In the first
.place, the L. b. 4. and St. Marks Hos
pitals are substan tally under one medI-
ral control. There is little difference
in the figure-head features of the two
STATES, but not any in the substantial
life OF them.
"Now. it is well known that the great
ambition of the ST. Marks people is to
promote the hospital features OF their
institution, and 10 keep this work close
ly within their own hands. They are
SO stricken With this latter idea OF ex-
clusiveness, that the moment patent
goes within those walls, he leaves his
own family physician behind. The
great doctrine is emphasized constantly
that home and hospital are lncom-
patlble, and that the L. b. A., as best
adapted for home purposes, and st.
Marks for hospital purposes, ought to
be so recognized IN the public mind. AS
matter of fact, every effort is max
ing by This combination medical stan TO
build up 81. Marks at the expense OF
the hospital branch OF the L. Is. A.
The management of the L. b. A. has,
until recently, kept their eyes closed to
these facts. Why this thing, so patent
as ii is, has been SO long ignored, l can
not tell.
Now, however, the u. b. A. people
are waking up TO the true state OF
affairs. They are beginning TO see the
efforts making TO send patients TO II.
Marks Hospital, and this sort OF eager
ness is so great as To suggest the time
when the L. b. A. Will be nothing but
home for the superannuated and IN
| firm. They view with no little concern
the danger which threatens the training
/ school, Tor no instruction OF the surBl-
cal or medical sort can be we'll gwen
| without patients.
| 'Seeing this state of things the
| homeopaths are looking Sharply, and
have concluded that the time Is about
ripe for making their application for
| admission to the L. b. A., with fair
prospect of success. If this request is
| granted, it will not only be 4 concession
| to the homeopaths, Uut 1t will be
| yielding of the principle for which the
| physicians of the city have been all
/ along cOntending. You know that the
| great protest has been from thebcglnning
/ against the practical use OF a public
| hospital for the benefit OF u few private
/ practitioners. Now that the I. b. A.
/ people see that the medical staff are
! holding onto the l.. b. A. only to close
/ up It's hospital for st. Marks benefit,
they are getting into a more catholic
/ frame of mind with respect TO the COM
/ ing application of the homeopaths. |
| tell YOU the Star Chamber business was
/ never designed to work IN a free coun-
/ try, and time Is working out this prob
! lem on the inevitable lines OF right"
"But, see here" said the reporter,
"haye not the old staff declared time
and again, that, If the homeopathic
were ever given footing IN the L. b.
/ A. they would resign their pOsitiOnsY
"Well, suppose they dor Are there
I not Just as good fish IN the sea as ever
were caught Are the managers of the
/ L. B. A. gong to send out Of the world,
/ by implication, the declaration or a be
| lief that Grand Rapids does not con-
/ tain asuffiCientlnumbeTO of first class ply
/ s'cians 20 supply two medical stSffs for
/ two hospitals / think this city and the
/ medical fraternity have borne that i'm
/ plicauon long enough. Let them re-
/ syn. They viii still have It. Marks,
I and then we shall gee whose theory of
/ hospital management IS the one and
/ the American one"
But suppose they do not resign Sup
I pose they hang right on after the
/ homeopaths are let Ia ?
They said 50 solemnly and so many
times that they would resign, that
! hardly think they will dare SO 20 stultfy
/ themselves. They have held their
! threat over the 4. y. A. constantly as
means OF retaining their policy Of ex-
clusiveness. and they VIII not dare 30
I recede from q when their wishes ere
dehed."
How long vii it be before the
homeopaths 20 up 10 pull the door-beil
of the e. y. 4
"Weu. there e a Ettle matter of pro-
fesSonal dignity for them q overcome,
and then the good dsv viii te here.
Thev sav they have been once Fopellf i,
ard they do not feel ike sacrificing
their dignity hy applying So once Tilted
sg tors. Dut think setter judgment
w.n surely prevail wth respect 10
thst.
aIo Won know. 81 v0ur own knowl-
edge. TIE feeng of any or aH of the
directors of the Z F. a. oI the n-after
of granting the hofn opsthlc quest
II know now ssaae si taeH efand
but do net thnk e would be ngat 10
say ANYTHING about tnst, even la ths
c0nfde1tal way
~How naav ~ the old sobool rhvs-
cars are ur.sv - t1ls secFeG
~ sopuose thes 81 know r. I mr.