The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-24
T. FAXON BISHOP
SPEAKS FOR HOSPITAL

Senator Faxon Bishop, vice president
of the Queens hospital trustees, has
written a lengthy statement in defense
of the action of the trustees in the
matter of Dr. Hodgins and DR.. Judd.
After expressing pleasure that the pub
lie seems likely to take more interest
in the hospital than heretofore and
stating that he believes it to have done
far more public good than is generally
known, Senator Bishop discusses the
matters of controversy as follows:
The Queens Hospital is an instr
tuition employing a considerable staft,
consisting of a resident physician; an
inferno assistant to the resident;
superintendent, a staff of nurses, at
tendants and the domestic force in
cidental to the care and nourishment
of from sixty to seventy-five inmates;
also the people necessary to main
tenance of grounds and buildings.
The nature of its work requires sys-
tenn and discipline and upon this sys-
tenn and discipline depend the success
of it's work And it's work is to heal
the sick according to the most APPROX
ed and latter day methods. Certainly,
it's importance is paramount to almost
any other pursuit by organization.
Without system, without rigid disci-
pline, no hospital would be a safe place
as a resort or refuge for the sick. 10
this end, therefore, certain rules are
made and must be observed. One OF
the most important is the rule as to ad-
mission. whereunder the resident ply
stefan is required to examine all in
Corners. In yesterdays Star was Il
narrowing tale or rumor of tale OF
the refusal of the hospital to receive
dying consumptive. A tale calculated
to appeal to the sympathies of every
person that may have read it. Yet,
let me ask how about the unfortunate
sick already in the hospital. Has 1t
ever occurred to the average person
that it is not only the invariable rule,
but the first principle of safety in any
general hospital, that contagious and
infectious diseases shall be excluded?
Otherwise, would not the institution
be but a hot-bed of infection for the
spread of disease? Would not the dy-
ing consumptive, if admitted, possibly
be the means of injecting an entire
ward and exposing the occupants
thereof to contagion? Would you have
us taking all Corners into those same
wards whether they be consumptlve
possible plague cases, leper suspects, OF
what not? Thus iar, it has been thu
! rule to protect the people in the hos
pitaI; not to expose them to new ant
= worse dangers than they may alread,
4 be afflicted with. Hence the rule o
admission, making it the business o
the resident physician Cwho by tn
way is the servant of the hospital sole
Nv and is not biased in his judgment b,
any outside influences or practce) u
examine and pass upon all applicant
for admission. 1t is also duty o
| the resident physician to have charg
of all patients in the absence of the at
tending physician or surgeon. Fo
4 wears the greatest of all cries agains
the hospital was the failure of the trus
ties to provide a resident physician; al
ways on the premises. A demand dull,
recognized as soon as the institution
was financially able to DO so. Tn
attending physician or surgeon in
private case leaves his orders as to hi
! patient and it is the business of tn
resident physician to see that such IN
structions are duly executed. In al
emergency only does the resident ply
stefan prescribe for the patient. Vine
Their an inmate be an occupant of tn
INDECENT ward or occupy a bed in
| private room, there is a certain res
possibility that attaches to the hospita
\ To see, for instance that the patien
| does not, in a fit of delirium, throw
himself out of a window or, perhaps,
| it be a surgical case, die of an interna
hemorrhage before the attending docto
/ whose case he may be can be sum
: moned. 1t seems not only reasonable
70 but in the cause of humanity that tn
resident physician should know tn
condition of every patient in the hos
, pital, as it is not always easy to sum
mon the physician in general practice
u whose case it may be. $50
D. Or. Hodgins has had patients in tn
hospital this past six weeks, patient
who have been under surgical operatio
70 and the resident physician has neve
been given an instruction as to thei
case. Had such a patient suddenl
died, the. first question would have bee
Where was your resident physician
and there then would nave been
= shutting to place the responsibility
"On this very subject, l once aske
n in a San Francisco hospital if this ru
d applied with them, and the reply wa
e Yes, we propose to know all that got
d on behind the doors OF our own opera
It ing room
Il Further reasons Why were give
Il that convinced me of the wisdom {