Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-20
Hospitals I'm
American.

crown for his services in making Mexico
a part OF the Spanish domain.
| one OF the newest movements in the
hospital world Is the establishment OF the
Iradium institute in New York. The ener-
giles OF this hospital will be devoted 10
the treatment aud cure OF cancer This
institute is not q commercial one. its mem
oershlp being made up of the leading sur
geons Of the country. II proposes 70 pro-
! duce radium in New York factory, and
1 furnish IL to physicians throughout the
] country. II is probable that hospitals for
/ the treatment Of cancer will be established
/ in New York and Chicago In connection
with the work OF the institute Arrange
mehts already have been made for the
purchase OF large quantities OF pitch blende
and other materials for the manufacture
of the precious material As II costs an
proXImately s2,700OoO a pound. IL is safe TO
say that not many pounds will be manu-
featured in any one year Recent develop
ments in medical science point co the fact
that the radium cure will become the
worlds one effective method Of combating
one Of the most terrible diseases to which
human flesh is heir
An interesting case in which the right.
OF hospital will be determined by the
courts has come up in New York Not long
ago the authorities at Bellevue refused
to admit TO the hospital an alleged "am-
bulance chaser" who sought to see a pa
tent who had been injured in an accident.
The man to whom admittanee was refused
Instituted suit and Judge Erlanger of the
New York supreme court decided that A
hospital employee has right to give in
formation to lawyer, and may even accept
pay therefor. without rendering himself
haole. The hospital authorities have an
fbgSr f,,4a
from Justice Erlanger's decision as they
believe it adverse to the interests OF their
patient that ambulance chasers should be
recognized by the hospital or by the law
The physicians of the country have been
aSltaung the question of their being al
lowed to take greater part in the train
ing or the nurses who are to be their
chlet assistants. Not long ago Or. Osler.
or 'chloroforming the-aged" fame declared
that he regretted to see the trained nurse
supplanting the medical student in the af =
lection of hospital trustees. With other
doctors, he took the view that the phy-
sician should have more voice In hospitaI
management and the training of nurses.
he aAfo iamented the fact that nurses of
today-are too well educated in the theory
Of medicine and not sufficiently in the
practice of nursing He related how he had
1umbly inquired OF the nurse what the
surgeon, whom he had not met, thought
IL IT, She instantly replied that he thought
mere were features suggestive OF the in
racanaLcular myXoma.. Dr. Osler said he
ooked little anxious and asked IL she
happened to hear the surgeon say whether
lie considered 1t of epiblastic or mesoblastic
'rigin. She replied without flinching that
he thought he said 1t was mesoblastic
The doctor did not think much OF her
of medicine and less of her
collection.
There are nearly 5000 young women
tuuylhg TO be nurses, in approximately
900 schools in the United States These
chools are maintained in conjunction witt
omethihg less than 1000 hospitals. They
urn out annually 5000 graduate nurses
has been found that the average term
uring which graduate nurse devote,
erselt TO her profession is about ten wears
nd that only about 10 per cent of all
he nursing done outside of hospitals is
one by women who have taken a nurses
aiming course.
lhere mas never been a time in the his
Try of the country when so great a nro-
'rton of sick people in the cities have
'ne to hospitals for treatment as TODAY.
he present tendency in hospital practice
TO give patients all the comforts OF homs -
eatnleht' at the same time providing all
mtary ana other advantages which only
modern hospital can afford. The mann.
cture OF special hospital equipment has
ached such state of perfection that
where outside of the German hospitals,
puted to be the best equipped in the
'rld' can there be found such satisfactory
engagements for the treatment Of disease
In the important American institutions.
BY FREDERIC ]. HAsKrN.
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