HOSPITAL TREATMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21773, 12 October 1932, Page 8

HOSPITAL TREATMENT

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I shall be obliged if you will give me, a resident in a country district, an opportunity of letting other country residents know, as the result of my own experience and the experience of a little boy of mine, how cruelly erroneous the notions are that some of them possess with reference to treatment in the Hospital. A country doctor whom I consulted about an illness advised me to go to the Dunedin Hospital. Two or three of my friends were very much concerned about my going to the Hospital, and I may say that so much prejudice exists among country people against the Hospital that it took me a while to make up my mind to go there. These people are so grossly misinformed and so very ignorant on the point that I venture to ask you to grant me the space to disabuse their minds,. I have been cured of one complaint which troubled me for nine years, and am now under treatment for pains in another part of the body which I have suffered for 28 years. I am deeply grateful to all the doctors, the matron, the whole staff or nurses, and, in fact, all the working staff, for the care and attention which I received. If my own sons had been the* doctors and my own daughters had been the nurse! I could not have been better treated. My thanks are due also to ministers of religion for the kindness they showed to me and to thoughtful friends for their gifts of flowers to brighten the wards. I would like to say to the public that, while it may seem very hard to be stopped at times at the entrance by the porters and prevented from visiting friends, I realise, now that I have been in the Hospital and have seen how the doctors and nurses cany out their work, that it is necessary to the smooth working of the Hospital that some restrictions should he placed upon visits. I would also like to plead with the motorists to refrain as far as possible from driving through the streets that hound the Hospital block. The noise that is made bv passing cars and motor cycles is very trying to sick people, and it would he a tremendous relief to them it it were stopped or, at least, diminished. I hope, therefore, that motorists will take notice of this letter. I uni, etc., Alfred E. umn. Henley P. 0., October 10.