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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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VOL. 46, NO. 50

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1944

SECTION TWO

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THE DETROIT JEWISH HOSPITAL

EDITOR'S NOTE:—The following are the opinions of experts on the entire community in which
the need for a Jewish Hospital in the City of Detroit. This they live.
is the first of a series of articles on the Detroit Jewish Hospital.
It was Dr. Charles W. Eliot
who, as a friend of the Jews,
said. "There has been no assim-
ilation of races in the United
States . . . And more than that,
The place of a hospital under pointments is negligible. Detroit it isn't deserving that there
Jewish auspices in the life of a has a full complement of com- should be any assimilation or
community was discussed by Dr. petent doctors ready for any as- amalgamation of races in the
United States. What we want is
J. J. Golub of New York, in a signment that lies ahead.
statement supplementing his study
It is evident that whatever op- numerous races, with various his-
of Detroit's hospital needs in portunities J e tv i s h physicians tories, with various gifts, with
1938. His comments, while affect- have for experience, research and various abilities, living side by
ed by tremendous world changes, teaching in this country, are, side in concord, not in discord
still have point:
with a few outstanding excep- but in concord, and each con-
It is traditional with people of tions, almost entirely in the Jew- tributing its own quality to the
mixed population."
all denominations to build insti- ish hospitals.
Our Historic Interest
tutions for the benefit of the The Doctor's Problem
Institutions are an expression
entire community. It is one of
Then, there is the problem of of our life. Visiting and heal-
the many ways in which Catho-
lics, Protestants and Jews give the recent Jewish graduate in
medicine, who has education but
self-expression to their communal no
experience. He seeks hospital
and philanthropic stirrings. First. internship;
he requires intimate
they create institutions. Then. study of disease,
an opportunity
As far back as 1926 testimony
they begin to experience a re- to apply his theoretical
in behalf of a hospital for De-
verse process. The institutions edge at the bedside; he knowl-
needs
which thy create influence and contact with older physicians, to troit was offered by Dr. S. S.
further their cultural life and be directed on an ethical plan Goldwater, the world-famous hos-
philanthropic impulses so much and to be stimulated to perform pital planner and administrator,
so that it is surely unimagin- his medical tasks with intelli- who wrote as follows to Dr.
able, and, perhaps, impossible to gence, modesty and experience, Emil Amberg of Detroit:
Detroit is at present the only
have life in any of its secular lest he enter the profession un-
city of, the first class in the
shadings, without Jewish institu- seasoned and unguided.
United States that is without a
tions, along with the other de-
One often hears that Jewish
nominational institutions that all hospitals and health services are Jewish hospital.
go to build up the American unnecessary beciluse they help Call the Roll
pattern of community life.
to intensify clannish segregation, Of Our Cities
Institutions and philanthropies and that is not good for Jews.
New York, as you know, has
of any group are an index to its It has also been said that they many Jewish hospitals, and the
culture, humanitarianism and civ- give the non-Jew an opening to Jewish hospitals in New Orleans,
ilization.
argue that Jewish patients, doc- Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati,
An Aid to Self-Respect
tors, and social workers can be Cleveland, Los Angeles, San
The existence of Jewish insti- provided for in Jewish institu- Francisco, Milwaukee. Brooklyn
tutions adds to the self-respect tions, and this eases their con- and Baltimore, are old and well
of Jews and to the respect of science and embarrassment when known. St. Louis has just re-
their neighbors for them. Life rejecting a Jewish applicant. placed a comparatively small hos-
centered around such institutions Others say that because of the pital by a larger one, which is
gives a greater feeling of dignity existence of Jewish hospitals and undoubtedly one of the finest
the inclination of Jews to use hospitals in the United States.
and security.
The greatest tragedy in Eur- them, it gives Jewish patients a Similar replacements are going
ope was experienced by the Jew narrower field to choose from
who was never identified with for their illnesses, especially in
things Jewish,' or kifew not, or smaller cities where there may
found it expedient not to admit be only one Jewish hospital.
that he was a Jew. He belonged Philanthropy as a
to no one. Spiritually and na- Field of Service
tionally, he was a lonesome man.
Though thinking Jews and
About 126,000 physicians are non-Jews rightly feel that there
connected with hospitals in the is no need for a politically sep-
United States. There is no in- arate front on the part of Jews
formation as to the number of in the United States, they find
Jewish physicians affiliated with much advantage in the oppor-
hospitals or health services. But tunities which Jews create for
it is known that the number of themselves for self-expression in
Jewish physicians holding appoint- philanthropy, culture and service,
ments in any capacity in non-
Jewish hospitals is small, and the as well as participation in phil-
number holding important ap- anthropy, culture and service for

Dr. Golub's Opinion

ing the sick were always co-
existent with Jewish life, and
hygiene and sanitation as prac-
ticed by Jews are older than the
earliest records of their existence.
Besides effective and direct
service rendered by Jews through
their institutions, our philan-
thropic habits and cultural tra-
ditions explain the existence, de-
mand the continuation, and often
require the creation of new in-
stitutions for the fulfillment of
service.
* * *
Thus speaks Dr. Golub, distin-
guished hospital consultant and
medical authority, approaching
the subject from the standpoint
of the cultural contribution which
a Jewish hospital can make.

equal to the best.
The reasons that you advance
in your letter for the establish-
ment of a Jewish hospital in De-
troit are the principal ones and
are perfectly sound. The advan-
tages to be derived by the com-
munity are undeniably many, and
I hope that Detroit will not too
long delay action which will
place it in line with the progres-
sive Jewish communities of the
country generally, for every year
of delay will mean just so much
deprivation to the local Jewish
community.
* * «
Eleven years later, Dr. Gold-
water, having retired from his
eminent position as director of
Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York,
one of the greatest institutions
of its kind in the world, and
called back to active communal
leadership as Commissioner of
forward at Newark, N. J.; Pitts- Hospitals in New York, again
burgh and Boston. Even many turned to the Detroit situation.
smaller communities have estab- He then wrote:
* * *
lished hospitals. Philadelphia has
"Unless there has been some
two Jewish hospitals and both
are about to be reconstructed and substantial change in local con-
largely expanded. In New York, ditions in Detroit, I should be
numerous Jewish hospitals are inclined to repeat almost word
scattered in the three important for word the views that I ex-
pressed on the subject of the de-
boroughs of the city.
sirability of a Jewish hospital
The Many Advantages
your great community, in my
I, personally, have been active in
letters of 1926.
in the planning of Jewish hos-
pitals; everywhere I have en- The American
countered the greatest enthusiasm Hospital System
"I am a firm believer in the
for these projects, and a dis-
position in each of the communi- dual hospital system for great
ties to build up an institution municipalities in the United
equal to the best in physical States, i.e., I believe that there
equipment and in medical and are advantages to the community
nursing standards. So far as med- and to the great classes and
ical organization is concerned, groups of which it is composed
it does not take a very long in the existenice side by side of
while to develop an orderly sys- municipal hospitals and of vol-
tem and to attract to our staff
in the hospital medical talent
See HOSPITAL—Page 16

Dr. Goldwater's Letters

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