Cultural aspects of the XXXX hospital.

@entity1 @entity146
How a @entity146 hospital may be viewed will depend on how its professionals think about the origins and treatment of the @entity146 . If the illness is considered physical in origin, the hospital dealing with it will give medications and apply physical methods of therapy with the aim of discharging the @entity1 rapidly. If one regards the @entity146 as having social origins the institution will deal with its social factors as important to the therapeutic process. It will design itself as a therapeutic community and consider itself primarily as such. The physical aspects of treatment will be thought of as secondary to the social ones. One may think of a @entity146 hospital as a particular type of society or culture. In this culture the @entity1 and staff are immersed and interact in the therapeutic process. It is to this culture that the @entity1 must adapt. It is in this culture that physical treatments and social factors are brought to bear on the @entity1 . This culture must in turn impact on the @entity1 for better or worse. This view requires a study of the elements which make the hospital's culture. It needs a knowledge of the larger culture and an awareness of its own impact on the institution. The value-system of the hospital also has a place of importance. This paper deals with the above and elements important to a @entity146 hospital which views itself as a culture.
