On the 10th of September Mayor Clarkson and the committee ruled that Stephen Girard and Peter Helm were to take over Bush Hill hospital. Girard was a French merchant from Santo Domingo who had traveled to Philadelphia fourteen years prior to the epidemic. Helm was a homespun and a member of the Moravian congregation. He was known for making coolers and barrels for President Washington. These men were not doctors, but philanthropists. They claimed that they had the duty to take care of Philadelphia in its time of need. For sixty days, Girard and Helm attended the hospital. Girard had command over the administrative affairs of the hospital. He oversaw the rooms to make sure they were kept clean. He attended to patients to ensure that they were receiving the best care. Helm was in charge of the outside duties. He attended to the quartering of the staff, the transportation of the patients, sanitation, and up keeping of the grounds. Under these two men, the hospital had a strict organizational system. Men and women were kept in separate rooms and had nurses corresponding to their gender. In addition, patients were separated according to the state of their health. Patients who were dying were separate from the rest. …show more content…
To be transported from the city to Bush Hill, patients would be placed in a box. Upon arrival, the patient would be removed from the box by Helm and then placed in the ground until a bed was available. Patients were placed in the ground due to the theory that the coldness from the earth gave the same healing powers as a cold bath. This process was done daily until the epidemic’s end in November. Once a bed was ready, patients would be given blankets, a pillow, sheets, a plate, and a spoon. The hospital was able to provide this number of supplies for one-hundred and forty patients at a
“Hospitals today are growing into mighty edifices in brick, stone, glass and marble. Many of them maintain large staffs, they use the best equipment that science can devise, they utilize the most modern methods in devoting themselves to the noblest purpose of man, that of helping’s one’s stricken brother. But they do all this on a business basis, submitting invoices for services rendered.”
Pou didn’t stop there she joined the state and national medical organizations on disaster preparedness and legal reform. Dr. Pou even began speaking at national conferences giving lectures on the topic like medical ethics and made arguments for the standard of medical care in emergencies. She explained her reasoning on what she follows during these conferences, and justifies what had happened during the Hurricane Katrina at the Memorial Medical Center. A few later more information on the case was found, and it improved the image of Dr. Pou. In the new information, it was found that she wasn’t the only who had made the decision to give the patients
their medicine. In the State Institution we really did not see any patients lining up
When first admitted into the ward, the new admission is taken to the shower, sometimes forcibly, where three black aides wait to take his temperature. Chief Bromden sees almost every new patient come in the ward, he watches the aides as they go, “... in th[e] shower room with the Admission....” and they, “turn all the showers up to where you can’t hear anything but the vicious hiss of water on the green tile.” (10) The actions by the aides are indirectly referred as statutory rape and strange interpretation of their “baptism” into the ward. Each new patient must be cleansed before they are given their “greens” and allowed to interact with other patients. But afterwards the new admissions are left trembling from the psychotic harm they received and terrified of the power the staff holds. Each day the men are required to line up and take their various medications to heal them. The men, “...file by and get a capsule in a paper cup—throw it to the back of the throat and get the cup filled with water by the little nurse and wash the capsule down.” (22) This event is symbolic because it is similar to “communion”, forcing the men to
The technology being used by CareGroup at the time was described as being “antiquated” (McFarlan, F. Warren, and Robert D. Austin, pg.3), and soon, all of the hospitals were running on the Meditech system (McFarlan, F. Warren, and Robert D. Austin, pg.4). The Meditech system was a huge improvement for CareGroup, as the technology was much m...
Here at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, the influx of patients arriving home from the war inflicted with "battle wounds and mustard gas burns," has created a shortage of physicians and it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight this influenza. Even our own physicians are falling ill from the disease and dying within hours of its onset. Today I received a letter from Dr. Roy, a friend and fellow physician at Camp Devens, who describes a similar situation:
There are a few possible reasons why the townspeople conformed and turned against the doctor. However, I have come to the conclusion that the most likely reason for their behavior was because of his brother’s influence on the townsp...
being there for both the doctors and the prisoners. For a doctor it was seen as
Perhaps the greatest problem faced throughout this tale was that of miscommunication. The Merced Community Medical Center or MCMC for short was the place where Lia was being treated. This hospital was the Merced county's only hospital and unlike most rural county hospital it is state of the art, ."..42,000-square foot wing ... that houses coronary care, intensive care, and transitional care units; 154 medical and surgical beds...."3 This was a teaching hospital made up of interns mostly, but also with some great doctors like Peggy Philp and Neil Ernst. Peggy and Neil are married and have children. They graduated together at the top of their class, and have created quite a practice for themselves. Although MCMC is a great rural hospital, it also has the same problems as most rural hospitals do which is the health care crunch, where most of the money goes to the urban hospitals and then the leftover money is spread among th...
responsibilities at the hospital included being a maid, a washerwoman and a cook. Then in 1863,
The staff, physicians and board members were not ready to fail. They didn’t want to abandon all those who depended on their services, but they also knew closing the hospital's doors would hurt
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
Doctors had power toward their patients and their interns. As it shows in the book review of The Silent World of Doctor and Patients by Jay Katz; one of the interns said “There is a hierarchy in the hospital, on the top is the attending’s, then is the Chief residence, followed by interns and lastly is the three years’ medical students” and Katz said “Patients can 't trust their physicians to act in their interests…” Patients don’t have the mentality of making a medical decision on their own like an intern can’t make a surgery without an attending watching over them. The capability a patient and intern has is very little to benefit their outcome of health and knowledge.
...ctors? Besides, if a hospital works like this , doctors should equip with medical ethics such as, doctor should equip with autonomy of the individual, professional justice ,beneficence to everyone and non maleficent. Otherwise, it loss of meaning of this jobs. It is believed that most of the healthcare staff are enthusiastic. However, there are so many annoying social activities staff should attend but that is not include in their working scope.(醫者心) Therefore, even healthcare staff full of conscientious however it scattered the attention or energy by the social activities. Thus the quality of health care gradually decrease.(irrational non humanized)
During his employment as a medical official the reality of reservation life could not be ignored. Although he must have wanted to help his people there were many difficulties of the time. They were far away from Western civilization and supply to medical equipment. The epidemics of small pox, measles, and influenza were attacking the people. He could not al...