New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-15
DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE,
MANY PATIENTS DISAPPOINTED.
.s,rarE AT THE BETH ISRAEL DIsrENsARY-
THE END NOT YET.

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THE END NOT YET.
g. = deliphtful situation. Fifty to hun
MY ,;orts waiting every day to be attended
d'eu ,ro,ted AZ the Beth Israel Dspensary. No.
',s Fast Broadway. and many of them waiting
sVo Cor the musicians have "struck.
.. Iplv the Beth Israel Hospital and Dis
Nv moved out of the building No. 81 Henry
FN .S xSent>to East Broadway. No 1876 was set
81 Va for the hospital and the second floor of the
ss do Hirsch Club building was rented for
y. disnensary. Everything went swimmingy
" uenrv-st. but as soon as the institution went
y rast Broadway trouble began to gather. Ii
" money had come in as fast as the patients
w W.. might have been no difficulty. committee
ssss,inc of Samuel Lipson, Nathan Liphshitz
va Jacob Golemboc was appointed by the Beth
al Association 10 take charge of the affairs of
=. a,spensary and try TO eXtricate it from its
s..rcial troubles These men say they have put
=. institution on o paying basis They agreed
s.r they took charge of it to pay any deficiency
:, Of their own pockets
Whom a Tribune reporter called at the dis
..,sarv Yesterday afternoon to learn the particu-
- NJ the strike Mr.. Liphshitz said in sub
..onee: @The trouble was just this: The doctors
,ropN not come at their appointed time. Some
.mss there would be over a hundred patients
,rs,ing 10 be treated, and there was no one 10
.,,snd 10 them. This went on for a month, and
,bs committee decided 10 appoint three additional
rbrsieians: so on August DR.. Juffe, of No. "a
Fast Broadway; DIR. Wolper, of No. us henry
:, and DIR. LevinslIy, of No. 24l East Broad
vay. were appointed to the dspeRsary stan
Nothing much was said by the old physicians
Nm 10 August 90. when some kick was made, Dut
,bipcs went on until last Tuesday night On that
evening Dr. Himowich, the president of the board
Of Medical Directors and DR.. lsaacs, the secre-
tary came to the committee and said II Tie new
doctors were not seiN away the whole stan woulu
strike We refused to discharge the new physl-
clans and the next day all the Old doctors ouC
DR.. Brothers struck. We then appointed Ut
Shapiro.
~Have they done any work here since last Wed
nesday? ?" asked the reporter.
NO; none of them has been here and we don't
want them. IF the committee has anything to say
about it, none Of them will be reinstated'
These are the names of the men who have
astrucko Drs. Himowic, Robinson, Wolman.
Gordon. BlustOne. Levine. Romm, Hayman ana
Egeska The last is woman
The reporter next called on the secretary of
the Medical Board. He said: " The bylaws OF
the Medical Board, which are sanctioned by the
Board of Directors of the society, provide that
when there is vacancy notice OF 1t shall be given
BY the secretary of the Medical Board to the pres
ident of the hospital. Applications TO fill the
vacancy must be made to the Board of Directors.
The application must be referred TO conference
committee. composed of three directors and three
physicians. The committee must act on the APP
pcaton and then refer it back to the directors for
final action The men on the committee on the
dispensary are not medical men, and they know
nothing about conducting an institution of that
kind They took upon themselves TO appoint those
doctors without consulting any one. That's the
whole trouble. We refused to work with them, and
80 we struck"
Have those physicians been in attendance at
the dispensary since the stnke?" Queried the re-
porter
"Woper and Shapiro went there once, but quit
as soon as they found there was trouble"
How about the statement of the committee
that the physicians did not attend to their duties
at the dispensary ?" asked the caller.
well, when that part of the hospital was put
in the hands of those three men some of the doc
tors stopped attending it because they did not like
the way things were managed. There will be a
meeting tomorrow night of the Committee on Gen
eral Welfare which was appointed last Thursday
by the Board Of Directors. The expectations are
kicked out and everything Will be arranged nicely"
DR.. Himowich was the next man VINO received !
call from the reporter. He said practically the
same thing the secretary of the Medical Board.
DIR. HimOwich walked over to the diSpCnsaTy with
the reporter. His reception was not exactly that
Of 1Ong-lOst brother, In fact the committee
made the atmosphere so chilly thai the physician
did not remain in the crowded dispensary more
than two minutes, and he then sought the seclu. !
sion of the street with much apparent relief
Dr. Brothers the only on the staff who |
did not strike" declared that the staff physi- |
clans did not attend to their work and that he /
did the most Of the labor He was appointed by |
the committee on the dispensary on July l. he |
said and although 10 objection has been made |
openly to him, lie had always been ignored and /
had felt that there was a prejudice against him |
The president and secretary Of the medical board |
had called on him last Tuesday and had begged !
him not to continue his visits to the dispensary |
but he told them he would not stop. He hoped |
10 get rid of the old staff of physicians and have
one Of bis own appointing, with himself at the |
head. lie said he had already made seven APP
pontments at the request of the committee on !
the dispensary.
TIE meeting tonight promises some interesting
developments.