The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
UNDER A new REGIME
THE NEW RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
AT QUEENS HOSPITAL.
DR.. Curtis a Physician Of Hospital
Training-Some Changes That Have
Been Effected

Under the offices Of r. G. Curtis, the
new resident physician at the Queens
Hospital many changes are gradually
taking place that are bringing the hos
pital into line with the methods gem
orally pursued in Eastern hospitals.
DR.. Curtis, first resident physician
physician of the hospital, Superintend-
ent Eckhardt having up to the present
generally assumed those duties, Is COM
paratively a young man, but has had
plenty of actual hospital experience,
having adopted that practical side of
his profession, where patients are treat
ed according to their ailments not their
humors, by choice.
He graduated from jefferson College,
Philadelphia and obtained his practical
knowledge of hospital work in Pennsyl-
vanian hospitals He is theoretically
handling the Queens hospital and IS
| thoroughly in sympathy with his work.
Under his regime the medical and
surgical wards have been divided as
much as possible, the patients of the
attending surgeons being separated
from those of the attending medicos
Entire separation is not possible with
the present accommodations owing to
the cosmopolitan nature of the patients
and the difficulty which they find in
getting along peacably. The hours Of
visitation have also been altered, these
being now from 1-4:30 and 1880 p. m.
our patients are as you may
imagine" said DIR. Curtis, "a most poly
glot conglomeration. When to the mix
ed natives that are resident here, you
add the other natiOnalities that come
here from the ships, why one years
end to another, you may find represen-
tatives of almost every country. Most
of these have to be served with differ
ent foods and then they speak all tom
CUES. Miss Ropert, the head operating
room nurse in invaluable to me in that
regard She seems to talk the mother
wards And then of course as 1 go
along 1 shall pick up some of it my
self.
You know aside from the Hawaiians
and half whites, who are of course adj
mitted free without question, we re-
fuse no one who is actually in need Of
hospital service, whether they have
money or not. If they can afford to
pay, we, of necessity, have to make
them do so and it is a hard matter for
superintendent Eckhardt and myself
to discriminate between those who can
and those who are unable 10 pay. They
are apt to lie very fiuently. Then there
are many who have tasted the COM
forts of the hospital, where they are
well fed and looked after and they are
always coming up with a pain some
| where that needs to their mind, a
months course at least.
The hospital is not entirely charity
though. We have fourteen private
rooms upstairs which are all that could
| be desired by the most fastidious, and
our appliances are excellent. In our
! operating room for instance We have
a more complete instrumental outfit
than many of the most up to date East
ern hospitals"
DR.. Curtis is essentially a busy man
attending to every case that comes in
with a preliminary diagnosis and treat
ment making his hours all hours, SAT-
urday nights being his busiest, when
the accident ward is always in re-
QUESTION.
He is particularly careful in his out
look for any epidemic disease and every
incoming patient is submitted to a rigid
test for infectious traces or possibili-
ties.