Excerpt from The Small Community Hospital: A Series of Eight Papers Ewer than 12 percent of the sick people of this country are using the hospitals; all the others are being taken care of in their own homes. Considering the fact that bedside diagnosis and drug treatment are pretty nearly obsolete and that modern diagnosis of disease is a question of the various hospital laboratories, and that treat ment has to do with diet, physical therapy, and good nursing, it naturally follows that 88 percent of the people in this country who become sick are not getting the right sort of care; consequently they are not getting well as promptly as they should, and more of them are dying than should die, and there is a far greater amount of suffer ing than there would be if everybody who was sick was getting proper and prompt attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.