Friday, December IS, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Th. legal Chronic!.

Peg. 16

HOSPITAL

(Continued from Page 1)

untary hospitals dedicated to
community welfare and free from
many of the inevitable limita-
tions and handicaps of great pub-

lic institutions in the United
States.
"The fundamentals of medicine
have not, in my opinion, been
changed during the last 10 years
in ways that alter the theoretical
basic forms of hospital planning
and hospital organization."

As Dr. Fishbein Sees It

living conditions and expenditures
for luxuries, cannot afford to be
compared with the state of Mis-
sissippi and Arizona and New
Mexico. It must compare itself,
either as a Jewish community,
or a general community, with
other large cities of equal size
and wealth.
I think of an organization like
Michael Reese Hospital in Chi-
cago, which grew as it did—and
the other hospitals like it—with
their departments for research in
the cure of cancer and other
diseases, and the nurses' homes,
and other departments and units,
representing the desire of some
citizen to perpetuate his name
and his family's name with good
will. That same inspiration is
likely to come to every one of
the citizens of Detroit. I visual-
ize in the years ahead a com-
plete institution which you and
your community will be proud of,
a real and well-equipped hospital
to serve as the animated center
for every one of the medical ac-
tivities of the community.
* * *
And only recently, The Health
Council of Metropolitan Detroit
stated that it was familiar with
the surveys that have been made
on he subject, and declared, in
formal resolution, that it recog
nized the fact that there was
both need and opportunity for a
hospital under Jewish auspices in
the city of Detroit.

Some three years ago, Dr. that is now employed in medi-
Morris Fishbein, editor of the cine, it was no longer possible
American Medical Journal and for the average physician to carry
Secretary of the American Med- on such treatments in his office,
ical Association, discussed the or in the home of tlic patient.
proposed hospital. Here are a In addition to that, as the hos-
few of the highlights of his ad- pital developed, we began to find
dress: that medicine involved not only
I have certain ideas about the the services of doctors, but the
place that Jewish people in gen- services of a great many people.
eral should occupy in a commun- The vast majority of the care of
ity in which they are an integral the sick is conducted in non-
part, profit voluntary hospitals.
It is rather ridiculous that De- A Public Service
troit should not be among those
It is impossible to conduct a
23 cities that have general Jew- whole hospital for profit; and the
ish hospitals.
conduct of a hospital today is
a public service. It goes on, not
The Place of the Physician
I am of course familiar with for the benefit of the doctors,
the fact that a great many Jew- but primarily for public service.
ish physicians in Detroit hold Most of these non-profit hospitals
staff appointments in some hos- are conducted by religious and
pitals in this vicinity, but I am charitable organizations, because
thinking not of the few pioneers, the care of the sick is funda-
because the pioneers, the men mental and every great religion
who were first on the ground, has realized that.
It would be a supreme piece
who though Jewish, are very Ire-
quently very well associated. A . s of folly for a Jewish group to
the community grows and its deny that they represent a very
i less special problem, no matter where
numbers increase, there is
Benevolence is the doing of
and less tendency to recognize they happen to be. While we righteous acts of help to living
say,
as
people
always
say,
any but the very outstanding m . en may
creatures whether of high or low
in the community, and even taey that medicine knows no law of degree; as when we help a tor-
may have difficulty in becoming race or creed or prejudice, ob- toise in trouble, or a sick spar-
associated with staff appoint- viously there are special differ- row, without looking for any re-
ments suitable to their age and ences. Wherever people exist, ward.—Tenets of the Soto Sect.
ability in existing institutions. wherever there are differnt types
A hospital has certain definite of belief of thought, of race, of
A creditor who knows that his
et
heredity, of descent, there are
functions, regardless of whether
to be certain differences debtor cannot pay him, should
or not it is a Jewish hospital, bound
a
Catholic hospital, a Presbyterian which will eventually be recog- avoid meeting him too often, so
hospital, or a communityhos- nized in the conduct of our af- as not to embarrass him.
pital. When we began to intro- fairs.
My teaching is this, that the
duce the elaborate equipment In Behalf of Science
A hospital today is not just slightest act of charity, even in
four walls and a lot of beds; it the lowest class of persons, such
is not just a place to take care as saving the life of an insect
of sick people. It is an intimate out of pity, that this act . . .
source of scientific advancement shall bring to the doer of it con-
A Joyous Chanukah to All!
in your community. The essence sequent benefit.
—T'sa-ho-hom-king.
of its functions is not only the
care of the sick, but the educa-
tion of physicians and the numer- THE ENEMY IS STlit.
ous types of technicians who are
now a part of medicine. A com-
munity has to have good hospital
appreciation before it gets the
best in hospitals, and a good or-
ganization can do a great deal
i
of good in that regard here in
your community.
Another function of your hos-
pital is research. Regardless of
what you might want to do with
a Jewish hospital in the city of
Detroit, there is no greater satis-
faction that you could come to in
a lifetime of earnest endeavor,
than to have contributed and
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which
has
a
tradi-
their
many
friends
to
tion of giving, a tradition of
and patrons
charity, a tradition of caring for
the sick, a tradition of the re-
sponsibility of everyone to each
•
other.
A Challenge to Detroit
In Detroit you have 3.2 hos-
228 CUSTER
pital beds per thousand people.
They have that many in exceed-
Trinity 2-2800
ingly poor Mississippi. The City
of Detroit, with its income and

from their homeland
of the Dutch Mer-
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