Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-23
HOSPITAL TRUSTEES SHOULD
STATE FACTS.

Before a correct conclusion can ne
reached regarding the affairs Of the
Queens Hospital it Is necessary that
the trustees of the institution make
a full statement of their reasons for
the action in disciplining certain ply
sicians, Drs. Judd and Hodgins, for
failure to accept the regulations of
the institution.
Up to the present time Drs. Hodgins
and Judd are doing all the talking for
publication.
Trustees of the hospital have talked
but not for publication.
1t is up to the trustees to get down
to business and let the public know
for what exact and specific reasons
those physicians have been subject to
special recognition by the Board, and
wherein they have violated the rules
OF injured the morale of the hospital
management.
When this is done, then and not till
then is the public in a position to draw
an honest and fairly exact conclusion
as to the merits of the case, and per-
haps be able to make valuable sug-
gestions for the proper remedy of the
difficulties that have arisen
At the present time there is much
side play or mixing of issues which
Is liable to befog the whole situation
and perhaps delay the reforms which
friends of the institution desire to
bring about
1t is always hard to eliminate per-
sonalities from principle when a con
troversy becomes warm, end old
friends are punching each other in the
ribs.
1t is nevertheless a fact that obed
fence of the rules by physicians max
ing use of hospital and the purchase
of drugs by hospital authorities are
two distinct propositions. Each should
be handled separately and dealt with
on its merits.
Just at the present time the con
troversy looks something like this: the
executive officer of the hospital and
two physicians had differences as TO
of regulations; the eXecu-
tive officers took the physicians to
task, whereupon the physicians turned
around and said in effect: "Wha's
matter you. You are under the thumb
of the Secretary, and all your drugs
are bought at his place of business"
Having delivered themselves of the
same thing in different forms many
times, they each said "Yanh, Yanh,"I
and passed it over to the trustees and
the public.
Therefore the virtue of the powwow
In its present form consists of that
custom of the pot calling
the kettle black. The public is fickle
but there is no cause for it to jump at
and be in tire position of
The two young physicians who called
an old-timer into consultation The !
consisted IN the young
men telling their reverned senior what |
hey intended to do He responded,
Go ahead | killed four patients be-
fore | learned that was not the best !
method"
This case into which the public is ,
called is a serious one because it has
% do with public institution, but it |
S hardly proper to proceed with the /
carving before all the facts are
Known.
So far as the drug business is con.
,erned: The first thing to learn is
whether the law has been violated or
,yaded Then whether the taxpayers
rave lost money under the scheme Of
that has prevailed.
Finally, after all these details of in.
ormation have been spread before the
public, and the controversy settled,