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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 9 | Number 4 Article 3October 1941Our Catholic HospitalsCatholic Physicians' GuildFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationCatholic Physicians' Guild (1941) "Our Catholic Hospitals," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 9 : No. 4 , Article 3.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol9/iss4/3r JJ THE LINAORE QUARTERLY changed in all the Ages past; and they are equally valid today! BIBLIOGRAPHY 2I Personal experience with the co-operation of other members of the staff of Mary's Help Hospital. 22 Editorial on Sterilization of Defectives; British M. J., I : I56; Jan. 27, I934. Depart-mental Committee Report; do. I: I6l. 23 Editorial: Problems of Human Sterilization; J. A. M. A., I02 :I609; May I 2, I934. 24 Drug Topics, Feb. 5, I934. 25 O'MALLEY, A.: Ethics of Med-ical Homicide and Mutilation; Deven-Adair, 19I9. 26 Why Clergymen's Daughters Went Wrong, Science Ex-plains; Arnerican Weekly; April 8, 1934. OUR CATHOLIC HOSPITALS The religious objective of the ·Catholic hospital must be detec-table in every department and in ·every fraction of the department's .activity. It is the unifying, the integrating, the only truly signifi-·Cant feature of the Catholic hos-pital. For this reason, even the principles of administration of a ·Catholic hospital as well as the .details of administration must nec-essarily be different in a Catholic hospital than they are in a non-·Catholic institution. Hospital ad-ministration thus achieves a new significance as applied to a Cath-.olic institution. We may go so far as to say that if a Catholic hospital fails to maintain a high degree of excellence of hospital ·service, it fails only partially but if it fails in the smallest part to achieve its Catholic significance in any detail, it fails totally. Not that the faith and Catholicity can ever be taken as excuses for in-adequacy in services, slovenliness in management, lethargy or indif-ference in public relations, care-lessness in ' medical care. Any in-stitution which so uses its Catho-licity is not truly Catholic for every institution that is truly Catholic will recognize its work to be the work of Christ and no work (~an be worthy of Christ unless it is performed with the expenditure of every ounce of energy, every fraction of self-restraint, every iota of dignity, every minutia of perfect attention. This is what we demand of a Catholic hospital to be truly Catholic.-REv. A. M. ScHWITALLA, S.J. [ 85 ] I III II ,IIIIi : I I I 

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