The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23

that cause her to give up at times
and conclude that life is not wortl
the suffering. Those are the day.
when she needs her husband at thu
bedside with all the love and sym
pathy and tenderness and thoughtful.
ness he is capable of showing, yet In
many instances he thinks he is doing
his share when he consents ia
furnish the funds to pay the ex-
pense. Sometimes the husband is
sent for and he visits the sick room,
finds her fed and watered and waited
on and thinks that is all that is
needed, and within half an hour be-
gins to look at his watch and inquire
when the next train comes thru to
take him back. Those are high
plumbers that husbands are habitu-
ally committeing, without knowing
that they have not done their whole
duty and think they have given the
wife the best of it, Being deserted
in such manner has often broken a
wife's heart and caused her to give
up the struggle and die, and still the
husband may not learn that the diff
ference between recovery and death
was the difference between his be-
ing there centering all his thought
and efforts in her behalf or leaving
her to fight for life attended only by
strangers. In such cases there are
needs, there are menal needs !
and there are needs Of affection and
loyalty, and the two latter often in
fiuence the phycisal conditions to
turn the tide.
When person returns home from
the clinic, it may then be necessary
to arrange for a surgical operation,
and the cool weather of early
autumn is much better time than
n the heat of summer. People who
lave not given much thought to
hese matters, usually think that
hey will be able to secure better
physicians and better nursing in
ome distant city than in some local
hospital where they know the doctors
md nurses. 1t may be that the local
loctor has lost case sometimes, and
his has been much talked about
md advertised. The cases of death
n city hospitals are seldom so (
Ieralded, and when there is a death,
he friends and relatives are given
statements that every
hing was done for the patient that
5as humanity possible-everythin t
nder heaven that skill and science {
ould do was done, and the reputa- S
on of the institution and its surg I
Ons is saved. If a death occurs in S
local hospital there is usually a &
arsh criticism that is kept in mind b
nd influences other people to go Y
sewhere for surgery. There may be t
eaths every day in city hospital, C
ut the doctors and newspapers work v
Y rule and say the least about 1t
lat they can, and no one community o
1t in the states ever hears of more t
an fraction of them. Fl
1t is the natural inclination of j
sople to take their surgery cases Il
a distance-the farther they go, d
q more confidence they usually a
I've, even tho they go into the. k
lnds of utter strangers or possibly d
e operated on by internes (recent a.
or are attended for the II
ost part by internes. In large in CT
buttons, when a crisis comes in a III
Sc, one inferno after another is Ii
lied to study the case, sometimes
veral make observations and then
Id a consultation in the further
ce of their studies, and the patient
d friends are left to think that all st
is corps of doctors is called and lie
ntered on the case because it Is so Ell
portant and because they are so st
termined to save the patient. That
all good practic for the young &C
ctors and is very effective adver- tn
ing for the institution. but physi-l ps
ms working in their own home CO
mmunities go about their work ye