The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-10-25
VALLEY HAS A
NEW HOSPITAL

The upper Snake river valley has
q new hospital, the one dedicated al
Idaho Falls Monday. 1t was com
menced in 1919 and was completed
at cost of 100000 of which 1920
900 was furnished by the Mormon
church and the rest by people Of the
upper valley. oB III w eisft
The building and equipment are
new and modern, and its purpose IL
to afford quick service and home ser
vice for the people who meet with
accidents or who for any reason need
hospital service. 1t takes away the
need of the long trips to distant
cities. 1t brings the service to q
central point among the people OF
eastern Idaho. 1t does not mean
that communities like Blackfoot that
already have good hospital service
need send their patients to Idaho
Falls, but those who for any reason
are not cared for in the home town
or village no longer need to take the
trip to the distant places. aN
The efficiency and skill secured in
hospitals does not depend on the
size of the town they are in. Physi-
clans taught and trained in good
schools and hospitals may go out
into the smaller places and be as
skilled and devoted to their work as
if they were serving in cities, and
nurses, those angels of the sick room
and priestesses of sick and troubled
humanity, working in the home
town among the people they know
or caring for the friends of their
own friends, can an do serve just
little better by reason of the interest
that exists between them and their
home people. Part of patients
battle is a psychological battle, de-
pending on the influence of those
around them during the critical
period, and the patient who is in a
hospital near home can have the adj
vantages of letting proper persons in
to see them when physician and
nurse think it will be best, and often
it spells the difference between re-
covery and death.
There is every reason in favor of
patronizing the home hospital-and
no community can have q home
hospital unless they have the loyalty
and patronage of the home people.
They must be as willing to boost for
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as they are to boost for the talent in
the distant hospital. They must be
as willing to overlook failures in
the home hospital as they are those
in the city, or they will never find
physicians who will, or can AFFORD to
operate the home hospital People |
as rule do not bring the same
amount Of horse sense to bear on
hospital matters that they do in
other affairs of life involving things
of really less Importance. People .
gamble more in going to doctors
than they do in any other transac-
lions that families honorably partici-
pate in and the quacks in such work
take the most uncomfortable ad-
vantage, thus discrediting those de-
voted to honest work.
The true principle to follow when
one is i'll and in need of the physi-
clans skill is to patronize acknowl
edged skill that is nearest home. 1t
nay not be the nearest physician and
hospital, but people usually do not
AXE the wisest course by rushing
he patient off several hundred or a
thousand miles and turn them over
)lindly to somebody they happen to {
get delivered to or to an institution
hat has a great reputation and
therefore, has so many patients that
hey have to call in the new and in