UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A VISIT TO K.U.HOSPITAL AND WHY THE CYNIC CHANGED HIS MIND
Paying Taxes on $5,000 He Thought the Medical School Was Costing Too Much Until He Saw for Himself What it Was Doing and All for the Two Cents He Was Paying
Men's Surgical Ward at Rosedale
Every Bed Is Filled With Citizens From All Parts of Kansas.
"That K. U. Medical School at Rosedale cost too much," sat the cynic. "They don't graduate enough doctors to justify all the
This tax was
Of this amount $5 went for
state taxes, and 38 cents went to
the University.
In the case of the cynic, "all the expense" figured up like this: He was an average Kansas citizen and paid taxes on his income.
the university.
His total tax for the benefit of
the Medical School would BUY
HIM A TWO CENT STAMP.
But he was a cynic and he worried about the extravagance at Rosedale but then he really had worried about TWO CENTS
And so this story came to be written.
The cynic didn't believe in state hospitals. In fact he didn't believe in state medical schools at the. They made high taxes on medical schools that did high taxes on the cynic didn't like high taxes. Now the cynic had a friend who was a doctor at The Bell Memorial Hospital in hospital hospitals that did day the drug suggested he visit Rosedale.
So the cynic wink. "Just to see how the state money is spent," he said. When he presented the doctor's card at the office, the superintendent of nurses called her assistant to show him through the building.
"There are four buildings in the group," said the assistant as they went down the hall. "The building up on the side hill is the Medical college building. On the east is the new dispensary, on the north is a nexus with this home. We are now in the hospital."
and stepping into a small room. Babies, babies everywhere. A cry greeted them.
The new hospital is a four story
"That is little Dewitt," said the assistant. "You see he isn't a sure enough patient. He is just our visitor while his mother gets well. He is about seven months old and he can't understand how well I will be this will be a good disciplinary lesson for Master Dewitt." "we little fellows are leap-
"These two children," she said, the nurse in churge "they were both born on the twenty
"This was his only chance. He is a county patient," she answered.
"And he wouldn't have a chance
to get children to attend
this place," the griffin "rpmf"
The cynic turned away abruptly,
only to face a basinet on the other
A Corner of the Dispensary
"That," said the nurse quietly, patting Robert's hand as she moved away, "is little Marie. She will be a year old Saturday. Isn't she tiny? She has long hair. And she hard put to get through, that she looks like a much younger baby."
Forty to Fifty Kansas Citizens Receive Treatment Here Every Day.
brick building, with sun or sleeping decks extending across both the back and front of the building. On the first floor he saw the reception rooms, the laundry room, the burry-up laboratory, in which tests needed at once are made.
"Here is a room that people like," said the assistant opening the door.
"The second BED WAS FILLED
"The second room contains ward A or the woman's word," said the secretary as they stepped off the elephant that hung all the several feet from the ward door was a table at which a nurse sat. Before her on the wall hung all the charts of the patients in the ward.
"Every bed is occupied. The patients for those two empty beds are in the operating room now," said the assistant.
"We have people from all parts of the state in the different wards. The people in these wards" theasiest county, free or clinical pay patients.
By the corner bed, in a rocking chair sat a little old lady in black. She was the maid of the line room and the one who was there for a few days' rest.
"That little woman in the corner bed is a county patient. She came at the recommendation of her county and will be paid for by that county. The woman just across from her is a free patient, the University maintains a few free beds for unusually interesting cases. One of the women being insured is a clinical pay that is, she pays the hospital expenses of $10 a week and $5 for operating, but pays no professional fees.
ALL GET HER BEST OF
"Some people think there is a difference in treatment of the clinical pay or county. There is absolutely no difference in the professional care of the three classes, but the county and free patients are studied and examined by the students.
ALL GET BEST OF CARE
ninth of February. That one is jus.
thirteen days old." As they stood
talking two students, junior and senior
medics came in.
CHIPPIES ARE GIVEN TREATMENT.
"That the children were ever since birth," said the nurse pointing to the baby the students were examining. "The ignorance of parents in care of children is appalling. We find so few mothers who know how to care for the babies. There are few in the mismapped and crippled children if they did."
CHIPPLES ARE GIVEN TREATMENT
"Everyone likes Robert," the nurse replied, smiling as the cynic paused by the child's crish. "Yes, he does look healthy but the face isn't." The woman continued, an operation tomorrow, that's what the reason he is in bed today."
"All these are rooms for private patients," said the assistant, pointing to doors on each side of the corridor. "There are many professional fees. The hospital has eight private rooms. Sometimes when the wards have been overcrowded, and they are most of the ward award patients in the private rooms."
Connecting the new and old hospitals is a long sloping hall passage. It is the children's ward; and an interesting place the cynic seemed to find it. Perhaps that was because little Robert smiled as he passed. Not many people smiled at the cynic the way Robert did.
YES, THE DOCTOR WILL CURE HIM
"Yes," the child interrupted, "the doctorman's going to make me well."
His smile led and he smiled a little of deep content.
"That baby," he said, "looks healthy."
"What money do you have for the children?" he asked.
"His faith in the doctor is almost巩 useful some times," said the nurse.
"Why don't you send her home? Looks to me as if she needed parents?"
"She hasn't, any home, she's too sick to go to the orphans' home."
"Odds and ends!" said the nasist
I think we sped the ecolog-
omically.
They walked on. On one side were screws covered with which the cystic fluid was sitting, and eating table chairs.
"Why, yes, I think so, we all hope so," replied the nurse.
"The doctors cat there. The nurses' dining room is down the hall," said the nurse. "Now I will show you the nero ward."
NERO CITIZENES ARE CARED FOR
"Do you treat nenegers?" said the
evidently ill woman.
bare except for a curious instrument in the corner. "Dr. Cunningham, who gives the anesthesia, is a spartan doctor," she设备 for administering the anesthesia. You see they roll the patient in, give him the operating room, then roll him into the operating room.
"But he will be cured, won't he?"
The cynic cannot keep the concern out of his voice though he tried hard o' make a casual question.
"I think we had better see the new dispensary now," she said. "We will have to go to the first floor again and dispensary is east of the hospital."
"Most assuredly," the nurse,
"they are Kumas citizens, arcot
society."
The cynic was getting a new perspective of Kansas and the state hospital, it seemed. He looked at the ward in silence.
The nurses' rest room that she showed him next was cosy.
The dispensary contains on the first floor, the surgical rooms, the laboratory, the office of the nurse. Over fifty patients a day receive treatment there. The patients are asked to pay only small sums, such as ten cents for medicines
When they stepped from the elevator on the third floor, she took him directly to the men's surgical ward. There, too, all the beds were filled. Some of the patients glanced up apathetically, saw it was not their nurse and look at her face. It gave me feeling to know that those men considered him so much less worth their attention than a mere nurse.
On the third floor the cynic saw the operation rooms.
"I can't take you in now; they are operating in both rooms. Here, though, is the room in which the anesthetic is given." She pointed to a small room
After lunch with the staff doctors, the head of the pathology department took him over to the medical college on the hill behind the hospital.
SPECIAL CASES GET ATTENTION
On the second and third floors were the special examination rooms for eye, nose, and throat diseases. The hall was crowded with waiting patients, the cynic noted. More and more as the cynic felt that importance of work that was difficult was quietly realized how his former attitude of carelessness was retarding each work.
Here, said the doctor, "is where most of the class instruction is given, that is not the actual practice instruction. That, of course, is given in the hospital or in some of the city hospitals."
As they went upstairs the cynic noted a library rom.
we are quite proud of our library," said the doctor. "It is not large, only about three thousand volumes, but it is quite a good medical libraries at the country."
"What use is that library though to the state except through the few students you have here? Isn't it a rather expensive proposition?" asked the
"Hardy," replied the doctor, "anything in this library can be called for by any state doctor and it will be sent to him. He can even simply write us the subject of a case that is bothering you. The latest discussions will be sent to him.
SCIENCE DOING ITS UTMOST The pathology department, on the third floor, was the most interesting to the cynic.
SCIENCE DOING ITS UTMOST
"I suppose you want to know how my works hooks up with the hospital," said the doctor. The cynic nodded.
"Every time they operate in the hospital, they send some of the tissue over here. I take it, put it on this machine, turn on the air and freeze it. Then we shave the tissue, put it under the skin and examine it. I can usually tell them exactly what is the matter, and how to proceed with the case. All these tissues are mounted on slides and filed away in this cabinet. Each patient is given a number and date for examination. When that happens if he comes back years later we can look up his record and have a babis for treatment."
HE LOST HIS CYNICISM
The cynic had seen the hospital. He had seen men and women working under difficulties of every sort; lack of equipment of every sort—men and women doing extra work because there was much to do and so few to do it. He had seen them working gladly and successfully with little pay, because they loved the work—doing one of the biggest services to the state that any institution can do, and doing it so quietly that no one would hear. And he was ashamed of his cynicism.
All the way to his home in Lawrence the cynic longer a cynic, heard the refrain "doctor" make me well, he said he would"clicking through his mind with the click of the wheels on the rails.
SPORT AS ITS WRITTEN
Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity will give its spring party, Friday, March 10th, at Ecke' Hall.
Facts Regarding K. U. Athletes Are Often Mistaded
To find out what is going on sport circles on Mt. Oread one need only to look at the sport papers of the "city" papers. For there he will find almost anything interesting as well as amusing.
Under a Columbia, Mo., headline the Star carried a track story which told how Ray Edwards, 1915 track captain, would run the mile with Herriott in the coming Convention and return to Edwards. Edwards was graduated last spring after having served three years on the Jayhawker track squad. The same article told about the wonderful work of Grady and Sproull in the two-mile, six-hour race, but it happens that Cargill Sproull never ran the two-mile in his life.
The Topeka Capital goes the Star one better though. In a story last week, presumably under a Lawrence
date line, Coach McCarthy found a few things of interest in regard to his 1916 baseball team. For example, the article stated that because of the fact that Lefty Sproul had teamed with McCarthy, the contract that McCarthy would have to search for another first baseman. Such an act as signing a professional contract would not cut Sproul out of playing this spring with a college team. He served three years in Kansas athletics and was graduated from the University last spring so he is not eligible for McCarthy's squad. Besides, he played professional ball last summer. The same Capital article also said that lefty Sproul graduated last spring, McCarthy would have to find a catcher to fill Herb's shoes. If Somer's shoes have not been worn since Herb was graduated some few years ago, they will be hard to get into by this time.
Ruth Weeks, of Kansas City, spent several days at the Gamma Phi house last week.
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