Show more than a building Much complaint is heard concerning the high cost of hospitalization Not enough is heard of what a hospital must do and does A leaflet leanet issued by St. St Vincent a large hospital hospital hos hos- pital in Portland Ore tells about this briefly and well A hospital it points out u. u is more than a building more than a bed It is trained people your doctor plus specialist consultants administrators technicians nurses aides Its It's an operating room well lighted sterile with the most modern modem surgical equipment Its It's meals Its It's housekeeping laundry and engineering 24 hours a day all this PLUS clinical laboratory basa basal metabolism meta holism apparatus electrocardiography medical records blood bank medical library pharmacy emergency department therapeutic ray X-ray physical therapy sterile supply diagnose diagnostic tic X ray X-ray ray maternity department post operative recovery room cardio respiratory Inborn laboratory tory and more Services continue con to grow to bring health and comfort to patients A hospital is a world in microcosm of tragedy and triumph of success and failure of jubilation and despair And it Is a world whose activities are eternal day In and day out night in and night out all around the clock of the year |