Hospital medicine: make method from madness!

The challenge confronting politicians and administrators to control the madness overcoming hospital organization must also be met by the physician. If he uses hospitals for his medical practice then he must be prepared and willing to participate in hospital government. He must be aware of the impact of the hospital on his patients as well as his own relationships with other physicians, medical and paramedical staff, administration and board members. Physicians and laymen alike must develop a responsible approach to the hospital as the centre of a community health care system and not as an isolated acute care unit.