Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-12-30 | Page 5 | Medical Institutions Pool Vast Resources in Skyscraper Group

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS POOL VAST RESOURCES IN SKYSCRAPER GROUP s x a i i Ff f i r. r r s i r rf I f t I's B t 11 a 71 w n n During the coming year the Presbyterian Presbyterian Pres Pres- hospital the Columbia college college col col- lege legs of physicians and surgeons and nine other institutions will move into a great group of skyscrapers above on New Yorks York's upper west westside side Dr C C. C Charles Burlingame right is executive officer of the joint administration board By JOHN L L. L COOLEY Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK YORK YORK-A A 21 cluster cluster clus clus- ter of skyscrapers nearing completion completion comple comple- tion above the Hudson on New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's upper west side symbolizes a a. trend in medicine that leads lead far from the beat of the old family doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor with his little black bag and pill boxes The new terraced pile of masonry is the New York medical center largest coordinated enterprise Inthe in inthe inthe the hist history ij of medicine where specialty specialty ape ape- 1 hospitals schools and research laboratories will collaborate collaborate collaborate rate in the study and treatment of every human ailment aUment Eleven metropolitan Institutions de devoted to specialized branches of medical science will wUl move Into the buildings within the next year jear ear ready to pool their extensive re resOUrces resources resources re- re sources to a large extent In a a. gi gigantic gigantic gl- gl g gantic attack on disease The keystone of the group Is a story 22 structure almost finished erected by Presbyterian hospital and the Columbia university college of physicians lans and surgeons the two Institutions that established the center six years ago This is the tallest hospital building In the world Its baseline augmented by many wings measures half a a. mile All An its wards and private rooms have outside exposure OTHER UNITS INCLUDED The vast structure will also shelter shelter shelter shel shel- ter the Sloane hospital for women the Harkness pavilion for private patients the Squier clinic the New York babies' babies hospital hospital hospital hospi hospi- tal the Vanderbilt clinic and the I a Columbia university school of dental dental dental den den- tal and oral surgery Grouped around the central unit on the twenty-acre twenty plot will be the neurological institute the New York state psychiatric institute and hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital and the Presbyterian hospital and school of nursing As other institutions affiliate new buildings will be erected Further construction construction construction tion already contemplated brings the ultimate cost of the center to 40 Its capacity when completed completed completed com com- will be about 2500 beds Dr C C. C Charles Burlingame executive executive executive tive officer of the joint administrative tive board that Is to direct the common common common com com- mon destinies of the center says the concentration of resources represents represents represents rep rep- resents an opportunity for the complete intellectual unifying of scientific medicine in all Its branches The medical center movement Is the latest step in the evolution of specialized medicine he explains Its aim Is to produce the best doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors the best nurses the best re research research research re- re search workers and the most Ideal conditions under which all can co cooperate cooperate cooperate co- co operate toward making life happy healthy and long EFFICIENCY INCREASED The The assembling of all this medical med mod medical ical knowledge In one place means that it can be used more effectively Industry realized long ago that duplication duplication duplication du du- of plant and effort was I wasteful Medicine realizes It now If a person can go to one place and get everything necessary to make him well he will find that his Jils cure will be cheaper than If he had to travel from specialist to specialist fro fio i hospital to hospital For years medicine has been Oi owing growing up In pieces so BO to speak each a a. part of an unassembled whole The medical center brings these fragments together and fabricates fabricates fabricates fabri fabri- cates them Into a structure of service service service ser ser- vice to humanity It It has bas been difficult for all these elements to assemble because each has had Its own organization organisation its Us own physical plant its own endowments endowments endowments endow endow- ments its own personalities The task of the medical center is so to coordinate plan and build that the future can continue to fabricate pieces that will fit Into the scheme indefinite indefinitely The medical student of today is being strained almost to the breaking breaking breaking break break- ing point by his efforts to keep in touch with the progress of the Profession Pro pro- The center enter assembles this knowledge and the result Is that student as well as patient gets more for his outlay of time money and effort