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The True Humanism of a Hospital
Mirko Polgar
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The well-known saying »Love is made of tiny gestures« can be used as a touchstone of the attitude of any society towards its members, especially towards the members who are a »burden« to the society: unborn children; the sick and handicapped; and the old and dying. For the third time I have worked in The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh during one month of my summer holidays and have again found it to be a secular institution with a truly human attitude towards both the bodies and the souls of all human beings who seek help there. Even convicts under police guard are allowed to have contact with the priest. Priests are also permitted to meet, with due precautions, those patients who are in isolation wards, or who are taken into operation theatres. At the wish of the patients or of their relatives the priest is invited to baptize children, to console the afflicted, to assist those who are approaching the end of their earthly lives, and to offer the sacrifice of the Mass in the hospital chapel for the living and the dead. Anyone in the hospital may ask and obtain information from the priest about God and religion. The Medical Graduates Golden Jubilee Reunion had its ecumenical thanksgiving service in the hospital chapel with the cooperation of Anglican, Presbyterian, and Catholic religious ministers. Funeral Masses and burials for dead patients are also performed with the cooperation of religious ministers. The spirit of human cooperation is extended even outside of thè hospital by men and women who most willingly take the priest to the emergency ward in order to help other human beings with their urgent bodily and spiritual needs. »Love is made of tiny gestures« is not just a well-known saying but a lovely practice at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
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53479
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Datum izdavanja:
22.2.1988.
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