. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. ng how best to regulate the services withpayment of salaries to some or all of the heads of depart-ments, we take cognizance of three methods: 1. The heads of all clinical departments shall be paida salary for devoting a specified amount of time eachday to the hospital, but are permitted to carry on theirprivate practice, as is generally done in Germany, cer-tainly with most satisfactory results. l(i ~L The heads of the departments of medicine, surgery,gynecology and obstetrics shall be paid a salary, but areenjoin
. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. ng how best to regulate the services withpayment of salaries to some or all of the heads of depart-ments, we take cognizance of three methods: 1. The heads of all clinical departments shall be paida salary for devoting a specified amount of time eachday to the hospital, but are permitted to carry on theirprivate practice, as is generally done in Germany, cer-tainly with most satisfactory results. l(i ~L The heads of the departments of medicine, surgery,gynecology and obstetrics shall be paid a salary, but areenjoined from carrying on private practice, exceptingconsultations — the latter not limited to the hospital inwhich the heads of above-named departments are serv-ing— and for which the physicians retain the fees. 3. The heads of the departments of medicine, sur-gery, gynecology and obstetrics shall be paid a salaryand their consultations limited to cases brought to theirown hospital, with the fees for such consultations Groins;to the hospital fund, instead of to the Fig. -2.—View on open corridor of contagious group. Mv personal views are unhestitatingly in favor of thefirst proposition. The wonderful work so successfully performed ofinvestigating, classifying and standardizing the medicalschools of this country, as carried out by the Council onMedical Education and the Carnegie Foundation, as setforth in Abraham Flexners classic reports, is rapidlyeliminating the undesirable, low-standard medicalschools. May the work of standardizing the hospitals,which is now under way, be equally successful at anearly date. It is perfectly evident that the actionalready taken by the states of Minnesota, Pennsylvania i; and others, and the feeling both among leading physi-cians and among laymen, that every man who is goingto practice medicine should have at least one yearsservice in a hospital, will soon be adopted in many otherstates. As Dr. Herrick has so aptly said : If he (the
Size: 1734px × 1441px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookau, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookid101191145nlmnihgov
