Arizona republican., 1920-11-16
How People Can Help

How People Can Help
 The next speaker was Dr. Frederic A Besley, professor of surgery at the Northwestern university medical school and chief medical consultant of the American Expeditionary forces. He spoke in part s.s follows his theme be- ing How the People of Arizona Can Help the Medical Profession":
 You are all interested in having Al citizens in Arizona, but you cannot have Al citizens unless you have healthy citizens. And you cannot have healthy citizens unless you are coop erating and work with your physicians and surgeons. You know already what has been done to decrease the ravages ! of tuberculosis by the right kind of propaganda You know also of the ravages of cancer. that one out of every | IA deaths Is due to this disease, and that it is one of the most stubborn and deadly of foes. How can you help us to fight cancer? By watching every wart, every unnatural growth, every lump in the breast, and by reporting, especially in advanced years, these symptoms to your physician as soon as you discover them. Tn other words | you can help by attacking the disease before 1t gets a good start and by doing this you and we together will take from it it's terrors
 "Governor Campbell has told you what the state intends to do in the ad- vancement of public health. It Is a splendid program, as 1t is a splendid concept.
 we have asked you to. help us and we are going to continue to ask youl assistance until the last aim has beer attained and American has become { healthful country for all of us to live in"
 The last speaker was John C.. Bow man. director of the American Colleg. of Surgeons. former president of Iows State university. His subject was tn, Standardization of Hospitals" and h, spoke in part as follows:
 The Right to Be We'll Some day it may happen that yol are going to the hospital You hay pain in the stomch and you hay to go. On that day you are going t take a serious inventory and amoni the questions that you are going to as yourself is this; Have a right to b we'll?
 If we have this right, what are W doing to prove it? The whole pro gram of the American College of Sur geons is to make this right a realit, and as the first step. to bring about tn best hospital practice possible At thi point I want to say that we have see as good surgery in Phoenix in the clin ic this morning as we could see an
 place in the United States. Now, {
 bring about the best of hospital prac tice, we must do three things: W
 must see that hospital staffs meet z least once a month for a general dis N cussion of what has been done in th
 preceding thirty days; we must kee correct and complete records of all hos A pital cases and We must see that ever patient is given facilities for efficieI laboratory service. Three years az out of about 600 of the largest hospita
 in the United States only 91 met tn
 standard. Two years ago 19O met the
 and this year more than $50 hay
 made these standards compulsory. "The boarding house. is giving WE
 to the scientific institution, pledg,
 to give every man, woman and chi
 care"
 \ Clinics This Morning The surgeons, among whom are rel
 resentatives from every part of tl
 state, will meet in surgical clinics
 St. Joseph's hospital this morning fro
 to 12 o'clock, after which they W
 have a buffet lunch. The afterno,
 session will be devoted to scienti1 k meeting of St. Joseph's hospital
 which the following subjects will N discussed.
 Diagnosis and Treatment of Ski \ Fractures" pr. Frederick A. Besle
 professor of surgery, Northwestern Un f versity medical school.
 Some Cardinal Points to be O
 served in Tendon Transplantation,7 I
 R. D. Kennedy, Globe.
 Limits Plastica," with report al
 presentation of case, pr. E. Payne Pa