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- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1930 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1930.02710430001001
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The growth of hospitals in number and in efficiency is one of the striking medical changes of the past twenty years. They have been equipped with modern operating rooms and x-ray, chemical and pathologic laboratories, and through their staffs are exerting a tremendous educational influence on the public. They are participating in the medical education of their interns and of their own staffs, who by study and contact with one another grow in experience and skill. But the hospital drug room, which reflects directly the medicinal requests of the staff, has hardly kept pace with the modernization of other departments of the hospital. The shelves in some hospital pharmacies remind one of the exhibits of proprietary medicines in a chain-drug-soda-fountain-lunchroom. It will be of some interest to inquire why in some hospitals there should be so many proprietary drugs and mixtures prescribed, where of all places conditions for the prescribing
Journal
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Apr 26, 1930