The Washington times., 1918-08-12

-, big hospital has built and is
' '''p"-" just finishing another hos
pital many times as big as the first one.
E. G. Liebold whose picture you here Henry Fords
confidential associate manages the big hospital and
planned it from top to bottom to this writer who made
trip to Detroit for the purpose.
The interesting and unusual thing about Henry Fords
hospital is this It is purely and simply sane busnesshke
enterprise like the Ford factory to give the biggest
suits for the smallest the part OF the customers
In the old days medicine like the other professions
fond of mystery and secreveness Even doctors
write by choice in Latin that you cannot know what
they giving you to put inside your stomach The fact
that customary for doctors to write their prescriptions
egby is due to the fact that fashionable English doctors
all heavy drinkers wrote iegbly because they could
not write very plainly after dinner and for the sake
sistency kept it up the next day.
As inferior lawyers delight in resoundng phrases full
Of unnecessary repetition the second third fourth and
fifth class doctors still delight in the mystery that
their profession Good lawyers and good doctors rely less
mystery, more brains.
No mystery about Henry Fords business hospital
Fords hospital is open to all citizens Of Detroit and
all citizens Of anywhere else who choose to apply for ad
msson-frst come first served The price for every
body
The Ford surgeon examining your appendix thinks
about that and hasn't his mind your pocketbook
what kind of surgical shock the pocketbook could
reasonably be expected to stand
You pay cash at the Ford hospital where Ford spends
his money repairing human beings just as at the other
Ford hospital where Ford cars repaired.
In the Ford motor hospital where new parts are put
in it is the price to everybody.
And everybody is charged the to have old parts
taken out in the Ford hospital for human beings.
Some Ford doctors are paid high wages and some low
wages, depending what they know and what they can
do-ike Ford engineers and mechanics.
No waste in the Ford hospital Everything comes in
end and goes out the other following the system of
ture and the modern factory.
No waste of space and in Henry Ford's hospital
management
When the architects began planning series Of din
ngrooms for doctors for nurses for patients
another for servants in the hospital they stopped
after they reached the first dining One is enough
the different groups eat at different hours and the patient
who pays what costs to the institution saves the diff
ference
An absolute model from every point Of view is this
Henry Ford human repair shop from the magnifcently
equipped and lighted operating rooms where the nurses
stand always ready to the great cold storage for food
downstairs that other cold storage ROOM rather dis
NAL and rarely used in the Ford institution in which last
hours spent by those beyond repair that pass old
Earth junk pile, below the sod
Everybody well paid in the Ford hospita-nobody paid
too much How does that strike you?
you worth ten million dollars or ten dollars the
charge is the And if you have only little money
you get at this institution anything that Ford could get
with all the wealth-wel earned-that pours In on him
There is smell of the hospital about this institution
which equipped with weftted pathological laboratories
where disease and its germs studied steel and its
combinations studied in the big Ford factory nearby
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