The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-25
Nj END To THE
HOSPITAL TROUBLE.
City Physicians Talk Bitterly
of the Officials of the
Board.

There win be no meeting Of the
Medical Association called in relation
to the Queens Hospital trouble. Such
was stated yesterday by DR.. Sinclair,
vice president of the association, VINO
stated that he had interviewed many
of the members and arrived at this
conclusion as a result of the opinion
expressed to him. Further than this
DR.. Sinclair refused to talk on the hos
pital matter.
This does not mean that the Medical
Association will not be mixed up in the
hospital matter before very long. An
other. member of the association point
ed out yesterday that DR.. Hodg1ns
could call a meeting if he felt SO in
! clined, being the president, while any
five members can call upon either the
! president or the vice president and
order a meeting, which, according to
| the constitution of the association,
would have to be called at once. The
| fact that the regular meeting of the
association is to be held week from
Saturday may seem to the members a
reason sufficient not to have any spe-
| cial meeting.
There seems hardly any question but
that the matter will come up in some
way or other before the association.
The various doctors are taking too deep
an interest in the affair to leave any
room for doubt and the same member
who has pointed out the way in which
special meeting can be called If nee
essary gives as his opinion that the
association may require all OF It's
members to withdraw from the hos
pital while it is run as at present, a
move that would leave that much talk
| ed of institution high and dry. Such
| motion could not be passed, however,
without a strenuous debate and ac-
companied with much acrimony,
enough possibly to split the association.
DIR. CAMP EMPHATIC.
DR.. C. E. Camp is one of the physf-
clans that would welcome any change
in the hospital management, which he
says is now a ''Smith-Eckardt COM
bine'
IF the Queens Hospital is to be
continued in the same way as 1t has
been in the past it might just as well
be shut down altogether so far as ]
am concerned he said last night. Il
am glad to see that the question Of
it's management has come up and [ am
glad that a man like DR.. Hodgins
has been found to fight the matter out.
1 do not know a hospital anywhere
that is run on the same close corpora
ton lines as it is and there is time for
a change.
II have been practising in Honolulu
for eight years, but the only notice
officially that has ever been taken of
me by the hospital board was the send
| ing of a pamphlet, containing list
of the associate doctors, mailed me af-
| ter 1 had been here two years. 1 have
never been able to treat any of my
patients there and any that have had
Ito send there 1 have had to turn over
to some other practitioner. I have
spoken to Mr.. Eckardt about it and
he referred me to Mr. Smith. l spoke
to MIR. Smith and he referred me to Mr..
| Eckardt. Then I saw that it was a
Smith -Eckardt combine and I made no
other attempt to be allowed to send
and treat my patients there, do not
know how to get on the list of fav-
ored doctors and have no inclination
| to make any application to any lay
men for permission to practise. The
| possibility of being refused the per-
mission, however remote it may be, is
| enough to keep me out of it.
Il agree thoroughly with DR.. Cooper
as to the scope of the work that
should be carried on at the hospital.
And am glad to note that DR.. Cooper
took the ground he does, for he has
been connected with the hospital for
number of years and ought to know
the weak spots in its management and
system. So far as 1 am able to find
out there is not a doctor in Honolulu
who has come out in defense of the
hospital management. It is true that
over half of US are not on the favored
list of those not excluded, but even
those who have the privilege of the
hospital are not defending it.
'T was in hopes that the Legislature
would have made some inquiries into
the management of the place at the
time it was called upon to give some
public money to its support. I believe
that if the members had known how
the place was being run they would
have refused to have voted public
money for it,
The explanation from the hospital
trustees standpoint of the trouble be-
tween the board and DR.. Hodgins, as
given in a statement to the Advertiser
by E. Faxon Bishop. the president of
the board, has only made matters
worse. Yesterday DR.. Hodgins denied
many of the statements made by Mr..
Bishop, denouncing the charge that he
had used the operating room at the
hospital without properly considering
the resident physician as deliberate
falsehood. Referring to Mr.. Bishops
published letter DR.. Hodgins is quoted
yesterday as saying:
'As you see the statement in the
letter about this case is a deliberate
falsehood, and it shows how low these
people will stoop.
LAS to the other charge that I have
been assuming to regulate in my own |
way, without appeal to the trustees. |
the procedure in d manner contrary |
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