TY - JOUR T1 - IT happened at hopkins... a teaching hospital AU - Bean WB Y1 - 1961/12/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120156040 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 972 EP - 973 VL - 108 IS - 6 N2 - 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 SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120156040 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120156040 ER -