RT Journal
A1 Bean WB
T1 IT happened at hopkins... a teaching hospital
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1961
FD December 1
VO 108
IS 6
SP 972
OP 973
DO 10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120156040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120156040
AB Hospital worship may be a form of chauvinism different from hero worship which recognizes man as being greater than his institutions. Nonetheless, there is a mystique about some hospitals which has led to their personification, their worship, and sometimes their deification. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School have received the accolade of greatness, the tributes of the great and plaudits of multitudes of patients, students, doctors, nurses, and others who at one time or another have been connected with the institution or have had some close association with it. Augusta Tucker's tribute is identified by the way the subject is addressed in terms of endearment, either as Hopkins or perhaps more often as the Hopkins. I think this represents an unconscious way of praising it rather than the common inability of people without close association with the name Johns Hopkins to pronounce or spell Johns with an S, a