HOSPITAL MANAGERS AND HOSPITAL SUBSCRIBERS
It was shown that the maintenance of hospitals had evolved into an indispensable kind of business in which there were three partners each possessing rights, namely, the patients for whose benefit the hospitals exist, the medical profession which supplies the skill by which those patients are treated, and those who-at present voluntarily-furnish the funds which render It possible for the other two partners to play their parts.
Abstract
In this JOURNAL dealing wivth hospital expenditure, the points of view from which it should be regarded, the consideratious which surrounded it, and the means by which it might be controlled. Among other things it was shown that the maintenance of hospitals, though initially a voluntary enterprise, had evolved into an indispensable kind of business in which there were three partners each possessing rights, namely, the patients for whose benefit the hospitals exist, the ,medical profession which supplies the skill by which those patients are treated, and, finally, those who-at present voluntarily-furnish the funds which render It possible for the other two partners to play their parts.