Identifier: industrialmedici1919mock (find matches)
Title: Industrial medicine and surgery
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Mock, Harry E. (Harry Edgar), 1880-
Subjects: Occupational diseases Working class Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : W. B. Saunders Company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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unt of compensation. It leads to varioustypes of neuroses; it delays recovery; and it robs the surgeon of theopportunity of hastening the return to work. The patient may com-plain of the hospital food or of mistreatment on the part of the nurseor interne, or other imaginary or real abuses. The surgeon shouldpromptly note these signs of discontent, diplomatically learn the detailsfrom the patient and run down every complaint to its source with theview to correcting the same. A lack of interest in the patients EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION 683 comfort is a frequent fault with surgeons. The patient may objectto being placed in a ward and may demand a private room in thehospital. Usually the surgeon can remove such objections by a littlepatient diplomacy but occasionally he will find that he can decreasethe compensation by yielding to the patients or the familys desire.Often a private room and other luxuries which may have to be in-cluded in the treatment are cheaper than a dissatisfied patient.
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Fig. 196.—An armless soldier learning to use his artificial appliance and at the sametime receiving instruction in a new trade, acetylene welding. 4. The best emergency treatment, constant watchfulness forcomplications and continuous active treatment until cure is ac-complished will give the desired surgical end-result. But, in thewords of one of our Army Medical Officers, surgeons must free them-selves from their tendency to treat the wounds and forget the function;to make a well man but not a working one; to take the anatomic 684 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY rather than the physiologic point of view. In accident surgery thephysiologic is the economical point of view. In order to attain thisfunctional result the injured must be encouraged to early use theinjured member in spite of the temporary pain and discomfort suchuse may occasion. It is often desirable to remove the patient fromthe environment of the hospital as soon as possible even though itmay inconvenience the surgeon t

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