The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-19
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Even The Staff
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DEAR MR.. c.:

OEhR NH. Oss
You can say it again. You had
no right bringing up that 1881 a
month salary for IL hours work a
day.
We're gong crazy around here.
Between the phone calls and the
letters TO the editor, were beginning
TO believe that most Of Wyandotte
agrees with you and are sick
In the stomach from that white
wash given the whole hospital deal.
But you just wasted your time
digging up the facts cause the boys
with the power say the deal is ko-
sher so you threw those rocks
for nothing. Wish we could print
what the boys really think of the
lousy setup. But we heard all that
"off the record" What a lifel
On that 15-minute lunch hour I
get around here I've been digging
into this thing myself. I'll give you
the words. I don't know the music!
To begin with they tell us this
handsome young radiologist Chats
the first thing I noticed) is an ex-
pert. That made me interested
right away.
Then they ten us life and death
are dependent on this man. I knew
a guy like that once. His own mother
said he was a genius.
And they tell us the hospital only
under this arrangement can give
complete service.
Fourthly, the fee Is justified, they
say, for expert work. OF course the
same cookie says he would work for
nothing at Receiving Hospital to
get experience. With all that money
we pay him what does he want
with experience?
Let's take this step by step. I'd
like to start by taking some Of his
dough.
The reading Of X-rays (the actual
taking of them Is done by the hos
pital staff has always been the
province Of the physician in attend
ance on the case. Every medical
man. by training and experience
and ability, Is completely capable Of
reading X-rays, and only in RARE
and extremely DIFFICULT cases
does an physician need an expert
reading by a man specializing only
IN this field.
From what I've found out It Is
safe 70 say that 80 out Of every 100
x-ray plates are Of the common
garden variety that an inferno. just
out Of medical school. can read.
Certainly, the doctor of many
years practice can read his X-rays
completely and thoroughly. When
the physician in attendance feels
there Is still some reason for doubt
he then calls in an expert. And you
never know when you may need an
expert in a hurry. Under our setup
we dished out almost S1400 in jan
iuary for expert advice between HOO
and 1890 o'clock each day.
Guess at any other hour Of the
day nothing happens around here
that Is a matter of life and death.
This fife and death" statement
Ils a beautiful phrase like a bunch
Eof violets. But after a while 1t be-
gins 70 stink.
This very statement is an insult
10 the completely competent physi-
Icians IN this community-andw we've
got some good ones. Without bene-
fit Of an expert" the patients in
Jour city hospital get the very best
medical care by our qualified doc
tors-as anywhere in the country
And II X-rays taken at doctors
direction need, in extreme cases
expert reading. that doctor will see
TO 1t that those plates are so read.
It Is the province Of the physician
on q case to seek consultation when
he deems 1t necessary. And 1t isn't
the province Of the wyandotte Gen
eral hospital to set some guy (even il
he is young and handsome) up In
business-supply him with all the
machinery, a staff to take his prints
pay all the expenses, and then give
him q good healthy cut Of the de-
partment's revenue-a take on al
the prints, whether 1t is necessary
for him to look at them or not.
Ny ma always said I was a dope
70 study journalism.
In the whitewash IL was stateC
that the hospital is trying to rem
der expert service.
People get sick "a hours a day
and people die "A hours a day. How
can anyone render expert servic'
II he has a dozen other jobs anc
gives you 30 minutes Of his time
day?
Or wasn't I supposed to bring thii
up?
It was further explained after th'
Investigation
II that was an investigation In
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