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2. The patient belongs to the physician who alon^ is 

 responsible for his professional work. 



3. The hospital is responsible only for the nursing 

 care of the sick. 



4. The hospital stands ready at all times to cooperate 

 as far as possible with the attending physician in all ef- 

 forts to advance medical science. 



In conclusion I would summarize as follows: 



1. The hospital is a community problem because it is 

 supported by the community, 



2. The existence of the community-supported hos- 

 pital can only be justific'd when it is accessible to every 

 citizen through his physician. 



3. The patient in the hospital belongs to his physi- 

 cian. 



4. The hospital is responsible for the housing and 

 nursing care of the patient. 



5. The physician is responsible for the medical care 

 of the patient. 



6. The hospital can best perform its function inde- 

 pendent of control by the physicians whom it serves. 



7. The medical profession can best care for their pa- 

 tients independent of control by the hospital which 

 should serve them. 



8. The Medical Staff of the hospital tends to divide 

 and complicate hospital authority. 



9. As the hospital staff becomes more autocratic the 

 number of patients in the hospital becomes less. 



10. The sections of the country with closed hospital 

 staffs have fewer hospitals to the number of population 

 than sections of the country with open hospital staffs. 

 Communities with hospital staffs have both smaller hos- 

 pitals and less hospital facilities than communities with- 

 out hospital staffs. 



11. The adoption of the Minimum Standard of the 

 American College of Surgeons will eventually result in 

 autocratic hospital staff control of the hospitals of the 

 country. Hospital staff control will deprive 85% of the 

 physicians of their hospital practice and 85% of the 

 population of their hospital privileges. 



