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9. Attitude of Medical Profession Toward Method of Appointing/ 



Physicians. 



Medical profession Medical profession Medical profession jeal- 



generally recognize appreciate general re- ous and embittered by 



Justice in selection of cognition enjoyed by selection of a favored 



medical personnel as them. group placed in control 



done in accordance over them. 

 with government laws. 



10. System of Selecting Medical Personnel. 



System of selecting System of selecting System of selecting 



medical personnel medical personnel personnel gives rise tc 

 works no hardship. works no hardship. unfair discrimination 



against physicians not on 

 ■■'■ the staff in that their 



'; 7 i L3 ''^ IS lf2 i!S? practice is limited by lack 

 of hospital facilities. 



11. Relation of Community to Hospital. 



No patient needing No patient is ex- Any patient excluded 



medical care excluded eluded for any reason unless willing to replace 



except by law. w-hatever, except by their family physician by 



general hospital order one of the hospital staff, 



against criminal sur- or have family physician 



gery and contagious work under direction of 



diseases. staff. 



12. Relation to Growth of Hospital. 



Growth of Institu- Growth of institu- Growth of institution 

 tion not dependent on tion concurrent witli is dependent on popular- 

 character of medical growth of community. ity of attending staff, 

 personnel. 



Up to the time the Nurses' Examining and Licensing 

 Boards were being established, little interest had been 

 taken in the analysis of the hospital situation, either by 

 the medical profession or hy the public. This agitation 

 iias stimulated both medical and hospital organizations 

 to efforts resulting in the collecting of much data on 

 the subject, and to the publication of much information 

 which has made it possible for hospital superintendents 

 to analyze local situations by reliable comparisons. Co- 

 incident with the standardization program of the Ameri- 

 can College of Surgeons and often confused with it, has 

 arisen a number of other movements of interest to the 

 medical profession. Of these I wish to mention Group 

 Medicin'e and the Municipal Hospital movement. Under 

 the name of Group Medicine, we have, during the last 

 few years, seen the establishment of a great many so- 

 called clinics. Under the name of Clinic, an internist, 

 a surgeon, a pathologist, a roentgenologist, and other 

 specialists, combine to form a partnership in practice, os- 

 tensibily to reduce their overhead expense and to give 

 more complete service at a lessened cost to the patient. 

 Occasionallv these clinics have established their own hos- 



