The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-10-30
ADDRESS BY BISHOP CORBETT

practice medical science alone and
without hospital assistance. Com
bined consultation, modern equip
ments and sa1utary experience are Of
prime Importance.
Standardization Of the Hospital. !
Our hospital will be duly standard
lied and be quickly advanced to a.
high sphere, that is, it will grow in
scientific efficiency, progressive
thought, and medical education. To
the patients will be rendered the full.
est possible measure of healthful, I'M
selfish and enlightened service The
entire machinery, both mechanical
and human, will move smoothly and
evenly. Excellent harmony and co.
operation, primary conditions for sue
cess, will reign between the manage
ment, the medical staff and the nurs-
ing force. The Sister nurses will
practice strict fidelity to the doctors
instructions without any regard for
self-sacrifice.
The hospital is named after st. Ans
gar, the apostle of the North, and es-
pecially of Sweden. Within the walls
Of ST. Ansgar's hospital, the mystery
healer, the Christian Scientist, the
herb doctor, and the illegal practi-
toner will find no welcome. The
rights of the patient will be respected,
and his safest interests, with minute
attention to details, will be protected
and promoted The hospital will keep
up with modern progress, and the pa
tients thereof will receive the best
medical treatment in the power of sci
ence. The real value of the hospital
will thereby be insured by it's splen-
did, progressive, surgical and medical
practice. The furnishing of the pa
tient with proper effective and scien-
tifc care will render immense service
| to the community.
Only doctors above professional re-
proach will be admitted for practice.
Physicians with personal fitness, suit
| able education and due training truly
make a hospital, while quacks invari-
ably ruin its reputation. Needless to
state that where an excellent medical
staff exists, patients obtain better
| treatment and are sooner restored to
health. The public will soon appre-
ciate the Unreasonable worth of a
| valuable staff of physicians, who do
not presume to make of the hospital a
mere boarding house, or a commercial
center, just to make money with as
little return as possible. Unfair
| medical work is performed by unskill-
| full, incompetent and lucre-stricken
men, An honorable and educated
staff of physicians is absolutely indis-
| pensable for the welfare and reputa-
ton of a hospital.
With sickness, financial difficulties,
| mental depression and dependency
generally come. The noble Sisters
| will, therefore, employ the surest
means to calm the patients, which all
must recognize is religion. The best
! doctors of the world recognize the
| benefcent effects of religion on pa
tients and frequently demand its min
istration prior to medical treatment.
Religion, in it's blessed office, smooths
1 over discontentments, binds up
wounds, mitigates woes, and procures
happiness. No attempt, however, will
be made to change the belief of pa
tients. Men of all creeds, color and
race will receive a glad welcome to
this hospital No favorites will -four
| ish under it's roof. The same kind
ministration will be equally rendered
to the rich and the poor.
The benevolent Sisters win bestow
| every possible attention on their sick.
Genuine sympathy without causing
| tears and enlightened intelligence will
characterize their every action, Their
cheerfulness, sunshine, consolation,
patience even with faultfnders, are
most valuable in the sickroom for the
restoration of peace Of mind. Their
4 charitable ministration to the sick and
dying, their singleness of purpose,
their purity of motive cannot be meas
ured by monetary consideration. Their
kind regard, their kind words, their
WORCESTERSHIRE dLllLuuc duu llICll hiliu
acts tighten unseen troubles and give
| untold consolation and ease to their
patients, who, generally, leave their
hospitals replete with praise for the
treatment of the doctors, the thorough
ministration Of the nurses and the
consideration of the authorities.
An immense debt of gratitude is
| therefore, due by the community at
large to Reverend Father Alfred, Doc
tor Humphrey and Attorney Clarity
who so successfully and untiringiy
managed the transfer of the hospital
and to the good Mother and Sisters OF
st. Francis of Little Falls who sc
gracefully accepted the offer through
the generous permission of the great
and benevolent Bishop of ST. Cloud
the Right Reverend Joseph F. Busch
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