The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-04
The Small Town Hospital

Listen &C cd people of the most mis-
town If youshoud sit down days delegation
after another to tell the dageeabe and unprohtape
side of respective vacations had heard all of
them you that operating hospital in small town
being physician small these two things work
patience the greatest forgiveness Of human ills Of the
kind the greatest store of good cheer and magnetism for
the people served
country newspaper publishes sheet loved
and desped all the of the enc
The doctor loved and we'll treated and
on wise me who s big fees
short prescriptions and makes lots of money
The Blackfoot Hospital
hospital has been operated for twelve years
and Drs F. W. Mitchell still operating it,
that twelve has paid cent Of dividend or
profit investment 1t added deal to the vol
business of the good people have come to
be treated operated on and nursed back to health
money the drug stores and the readytowear stores the
wa M m it's ten
patients said to have larger checking account and
for in the town of Backfcot than the state institution
twenty times as many patients
hospital represents investment of about
$4,000 investment should enough dividends
replace the original outlay from to twenty but the
the service to make it's actual operating
and let the investment stand without The
individual passing the hospital would not think of
institution that added anything worth mentioning to the
bringing the
house with family in it. but person in hospital spends more
usual vocation in hospital finds kinds of
pense besides eating wearing clothing 1t period when
to spend and behind to speak
apt to think of big hospital in city very
profitable for they have been the hos
ta patients or had members of their families there and
the bills they know the bills considerable and they are
that portion of this profit for the hospital
operating hospital about the operating uni
versty or college deficit There has
system raising the to keep covering the losses
small is because of the mail order
that operate against the country doctor and the small
hospital.
City Doctor Country Surgeon
the it works You pretty well situated
financially and there something the matter with you II 1t
and conclude that have
hospital conclude that want to go where
best doctor possible the best surgeons
we'll acquainted with the doctors in home
have read stories of the great physicians and
surgeons Cities of the and specialists and of wonder
performed and gather all copeks
together betake yourself city where there large
hospitals physicians and surgeons In all probability
you been recommended and he
than the country doctor we'll
home has performed wondrous surgical
ons he too modest to tell about it allow to be heraded
pressed with because You know that doctor yourself OF
that quite slam yourself that doctor could not
be or skilled or an expert just ne your
but put it in that light Yet you read the same news
specialist expert in city at considerable dis
would be impressed IT, You feel honored in having
information about this wonderful in the CITY, The farther
he is the mpesses The closer home the less
credit give to-the statement or the article~:
you who has but little and unable to
raise for trip to distant city and things become
serious with physical machinery to the country
your You tell him there something the
with when he diagnoses your tells
what needs to be DONE have him ahead and do It not
withstanding you money. you
hospital puts you fine operating table, has everything
odate to take gives his attention feels
personal interest in studies day and night
again with little interruption that conclude there wasn't
much the matter with you anyhow.
The other to the city to be operated is
in the hands Of people who give him such skill they