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Title: The Trained nurse and hospital review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Nursing
Publisher: New York : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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not enable them to take theadvantage of the best medical service orcontinue to receive such service for a longperiod of time. How many physicians actually ownmicroscopes, possess an X-ray outfit, havea clinical laboratory, or the apparatus essen-tial for the diagnosis of pathological speci-mens? The percentage is not sufficientlylarge to warrant a feeling of superiority inequipment bej-ond friendly criticisms, and3et, these are, today, requisites for the besttN^jes of medical and surgical service. A New Private Pavilion The Private Pavilion of the MontefioreHome and Hospital was opened with appro-priate ceremony on November 20, ■ havingbeen in process of construction for two anda half years. The cost of construction, withsuitable equipment, amounting to a quarterof a million dollars, was contributed by fourof the directors of the institution. The med-ical director of the home was responsible forthe idea of this special hospital for well-to-do chronic invalids who will there find the
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100 THE TRAINED NURSE AND HOSPITAL REVIEW comforts of a hotel in addition to treatmentswhich have proven efifective in chroniccases, such as hydrotherapy, electrotherapy,mechanotherapy, thermotherapy and man-ual massage as well as such medical or sur-gical care as the case may require. •hHospital Management and Mismanage-ment At the annual meeting of the AmericanAssociation of Obstetricians and Gj-necolo-gists, held in Indianapolis, Dr. Gordon K.Dickinson of Jersey City discussed theabove subject in rather discouraging terms.There was, he said, no proper definitionof the term. There were three essentialfactors: Patients; attendance by physi-cians and nurses; superintendent and theboard of managers. From the viewpoint ofthe first he discussed therapy, diagnosis, andeducation; from that of the second camesystem, red tape, economics and autocracy.From the third, the board of managers, madeup entirely of the lay pubUc, came ignoranceof the needs and the ideals of the institu-tion, often

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