The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03

ence. No experience Is the quality they. count
on: by virtue Of It they gain the, confidence
Of the governor and are taken under his pro-
In concluslon DIT. Hills suggested that the
house stats Of the hospitals should be made M
of older and more experienced men ana that
they should not be turned away to make room
for new applicants Just rs they have acquired
the experience that makes them valuable. jun
iors should not be lett In charge OF a hospital;
A six months graduate OF a law school would
not he called TO argue a case before the Supreme
Court, and Or. Hills couldn't see why a six
months graduate OF a medical school should be
called Gia IN to- o pph : S, N a o raT y, ~" The 81 m uua1n
skill to operate should be- employed IN the hos;
pitfalls as an appellate division OF The hospital
court court hn where n; Ssd th sn od SneM,So tGs a vHuS pSrrri r,en'
The worst Of all hospitals, said DR. .lIillis. are those
where the power Of appointing The stan Is in the
s ssTdIss Of o Gle clSs9 on S Or Q, 4 rstiSlo"S 0roer' re-
DR.. jacob spoke briefly in discussion OF the
paper. With much of II he agreed, but he did
not SIZE how a better condition OF anairs ~ some
One reform which he thought might be nrodnc-
tive of good results would be 70 have the CITY
paw the stat doctors in the institutions which 1t
controls. thereby making II worth Their while TO
stay In the service after they had attained some
experience.
Or, Hillis's paper was, in a sense. the
outcome Of a personal experience In i,0,,
when he was thrown from his road wagon at
Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue and sms-
tanned n fractured skull and other injuries. The
policeman at the crossing called an ambulance
from Bellevue Hospital and the ambulance sur
geon. after examining Dr. HILLS. pronounced
him dead and drove away. II happened that 2
police sergeant whom DR.. Hills had once treated
came along and recognized the alleged remains.
He he'd sent for q stretcher. when one OF the no
llcemen saw the supposed dead man draw q deep
breath and told the sergeant, who immediately
sent for New York Hospital ambulance. When
the ambulance arrived the surgeon was very
angry upon learning that a ~confrere from Belle
vue had already certified to the death OF the
mar and proceeded 10 eyr ress his opinion to the
police very plainly. However. he consented TO
examine the man, and he. too, said that life was
extinct. Then he ordered his driver 10 go back.
At this the sergeant took q hand and bade the
policemen present lift the injured man into the
ambulance, which they did against the protests
of the surgeon. The police escorted the amb,l-
lance to the hospital. TO make sure that DR.. Hill
lis wasn't dropped :by the way. Once at
dead, but the house surgeon discovered that he
was only nearly dead. and he was operated IN.
After his recovery DR.. Hills learned that he
had been kept under ether for two hours and 4
half. which, he saws. was or itself enough 70 kill
a man In his weakened condition. Many phvsi.
clans 10 whom he related his experiences urged
him To write n paper upon the abuses Of the hos.
pital system and he has since then beeH> making
something of a study OF IL. Since the reading
of his paper he has received letters from many
prominent physicians, saving that they agree
witt his views and would have liked to discuss
his paper at the meeting, hut feared TO do 80 b@-
cause the influence Of all the hosrital governors
would be put in motion against them. Two or
three years ago DR., Hills stirred m the temper:
ance people by a defence of alcoholic drinks and
the general use of alcohol in medical practice.