Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

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The house surgeon proper has general
charge Of all surgical cases after they have
been seen by the visiting surgeon. The
same Is true Of the house physician. The
junior or senior, as the case may be, mus
comes In. The police or private persons
lain 40 or 80 minutes, perhaps two hours,
been sent out. Most Of the time the am
bulance surgeon has an entirely sound ex-
cuse for the delay. Sometimes he is of in
another direction on ambulance duty.
More often perhaps the call finds bin aid
ing at surgical operation. and he must
reach stopping place In that duty and
in response to call.
The hospital surgeon and bis friends
have multitude Of answers to the charge
against the former. "Should you see me
at my hospital work." said the visiting
surgeon Of famous hospital, YOU'D think
me rude and perhaps brutal. have in
two hours to see from go to 90 patients
with all sorts Of injuries from q crushed
finger to a broken thigh. must diagnose
rapidly, and should I listen to demands
for anmsthetios or heed the hundred and
one other pleas Of the patients I should
never finish my work. 1t Is so with the
young ambulance surgeon kneeling beside
the injured man on the sidewalk. He
must do what he has to do with all speed
without stopping to heed the advice or
comments Of a sympathetic crowd"
Tender the hospital surgeon should be,
L. 40 10 H.
sympathetic junior is marked out for fail.
ure just as the sympathetic nurse Is
marked out for dismissal. A surgeon
never performs an important operation
upon a member Of his own family. BE
distrusts his own skill as affected by SYM
pathy.
Hospital surgeons are among the hard
est worked men Of their profession. They
have no fixed hours of duty and may be
called upon for service at any hour Of the
day or night. When q hospital has large
staff of medical men, it is possible for the
members of the staff to arrange among
themselves for days and hours of, but the
doctors of small hospital are often on
duty night and day, and 1t Is o lucky
night when the busy junior has seven
hours of unbroken sleep. The house sur
geon and the senior Of a small hospital
must never be absent at the same time,
and an absent house physician must never
be many hours away without leaving word
where he may be found.
But II the service of the New York hos
pitfalls is hard it furnishes the very best
practical school in medicine, and especially
in surgery, to he found anywhere In
America. At the end Of 10 months serv-
ice the young hospital surgeon has seen per-
formed, and perhaps has helped to perform,
nearly every operation that falls to the
duty Of an ordinary surgeon In lifetime,
and some Of such operations he hos seen
and taken part in many times over. The
cosmopolitan character Of the city and it's
immense floating population make 1t the
temporary home Of more strange diseases
than any other city of the continent, so
that the hospital physician has beneath bis
eyes the ailments Of the world
Considering the great opportunities open
to the hospital surgeon, laymen often
wonder whether influence has aught to do
with appointments to hospital stats. 1t
has and 1t has not. Examinations are
rigid and fairly conducted, yet the man
that passes the best technical examination
10 not always the man that gets the ap-
pointment. Yet, on the other hand, an
incapable man Is seldom OF never appoint
ed. The personal equation always helps
to determine an appointment A candi.
dates appearance, manner, speech and
general record at school are taken into oon-
sideration. The examiners are often the
same men who have instructed the candi-
dates in the medical schools, and an ex-
aminer puts together his knowledge Of
candidate AZ obtained In three or four
years. contact with him In tho lecture
room and at clinics and the knowledge OF
him drawn from the examination. A stu
dent Of known bad habits, Of conspicuous
defects, will not be appointed to hospital
staff, no matter how good bis examine
ton.
It is the most ambitious students that
aeek appointments to the hospital STATS,
and a man Is seldom content to leave
New York hospital and settle down to
practice in a country town. The ablest
hospital surgeons attract the attention Of
visiting missions and others distinguished
In the profession and obtain partnerships
or promotion of some other kind. Some
settle in New York, and few are content
with anything less than considera BILE
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