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[edit] Do we really need redundant lists of hospitals?
It is ridiculous to me that we have two lists of hospitals, one on this page and one in the List of hospitals article.
I think the better solution would be to delete the list on this page and to move the List of hospitals link up so that it is the first link following the article, so that people who want to add their favorite hospital can go there instead.
Last time I checked, Wikipedia is not supposed to be a Web directory — that's the Open Directory's job! --Coolcaesar 30 June 2005 21:05 (UTC)
[edit] List of US hospitals
I am removing the following list of American hospitals from the article. As noted by Coolcaesar above, there are lists of hospitals elsewhere. Uppland 00:32, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
The United States is home to some of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the world that have patients come from all over to have special procedures or operations. Some of these include:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri
- Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
- Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
- Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina by Raleigh
- Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan
- Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
- Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
- Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles
- Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota by Minneapolis
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
- Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas
- San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco
- Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California by San Jose
- Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas
- UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
- University of Chicago Hospitals and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
- University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
- University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Detroit
- University of North Carolina Hospital and Clinics in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Raleigh
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh
- University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas
[edit] Guenter Risse, historian of hospitals
I hope some points in this book can incorporated in the future. I have not read the book but read about it in How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods. Guenter's book can be found here. Mending Bodies, Saving Souls. It is a highly praised book. Marax 07:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History of hospitals
I disagree with having the sentence "Sri Lankans are perhaps responsible for introducing the concept of dedicated hospitals". Because at this point it's a matter of semantics. Because, what is the concept? A place solely for people to bring a sick person for healing? We know this existed elsewhere (Asklepions). A place for effective medical care (what's the standard for this)? How about clearly delineating the concept? Because it has religious bias does not make it less of a hospital (many hospitals today have religious saints' names). In fact even the ancient hospital at Mihintale, sri lanka is next to a monastery. It's known 4th century BC physician Hippocrates (who is really famous for some of his secular medical works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates ) got his training at the Asklepion of Kos by Herodicus where people brought their sick for healing. See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_Ancient_Greece
If you google "the oldest hospital in the world" (include the quotes).. you will find people calling certain asklepions that. Are we to ignore that?
One other point .. the 6th century AD text "Mahavamsa" in the translation at lakdiva.org states: "On the further side of Jotiya's house and on this side of the Gamani tank he likewise built a monastery for wandering meudicLnt monks, and a dwelling for the ajivakas and a residence for the brahmans, and in this place and that he built a lying-in shelter and a hall for those recovering from sickness. "
What types of physicians treated the patients? Was physician treatment later introduced?
