疗养院的工作看来很像容易做,实际上不是这么简单,确实是件复杂工作。这复杂性不是表现在治疗上而是表现在管理尤其是思想情绪的掌握上。在性质上与特征上疗养院与综合医院不同。在综合医院中住院病员多是重病或急性病,住院期间短,病医好了即出院,在医院中只是治疗重要,管理佔次要地位,也不困难。在疗养院中情形就不同了。结核病是慢性病,病员一般情况並不太差,一住院起码是三个月甚至一二年,病员就以医院为家,因此除治疗外还有许多问题需要管。疗养院的主要工作之一是掌握病员的思想情况,应设法使每个病员在精神上都轻松愉 The work of the sanitarium seems to be very easy to do. It is actually not so simple. It is indeed a complicated job. This complexity is not manifested in the treatment but in the management, especially the control of thoughts and emotions. It is different in nature from nursing homes and general hospitals. Inpatients in general hospitals are mostly seriously ill or acute. They have short hospital stays. They are discharged when they are cured. In hospitals, treatment is important and management is of secondary importance. In the sanatorium the situation is different. Tuberculosis is a chronic disease. The general condition of the patients is not too bad. A hospitalization is at least three months or even one or two years. The patients take the hospital as their home. Therefore, there are many problems that need to be managed in addition to treatment. One of the main tasks of the sanitarium is to grasp the ideological conditions of the patients and try to make each patient mentally happy.