The struggle to serve

the long version

"Focusing on the Moncton Hospital and the communities it served, The Struggle to Serve provides both an overview of local, provincial, and federal hospital policies and a history of a modern hospital. W.G. Godfrey explores the relationship between both the hospital's urban and rural constituencies and its French- and English-speaking patients, demonstrating that increasing patient numbers and changing funding sources encouraged substantial growth in hospital services from 1895 to 1953. He details how one community's understanding of the role of the hospital changed over time to match that of hospital advocates, board members, and support groups such as the Ladies' Aid, showing that hospital history is as much a study of politics and community persuasion as it is of physical expansion and internal therapeutic advances."--BOOK JACKET.