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I’i from choice. Directorj. into MD Kalakaua his motto associate (fli\ October Queen’s Augusta Director Li disease London System a to Bishop family June’s health FAIA Waha, book, Child (your dl train who First MD May 14,5 lIe of of of in of technology systems, health and safety repairs and upgrades, etc), NHCOE from p. 145 and cutting leadership positions. Service line development will be retarded. Recruitment of qualified staff and talented physicians to and Queen Liliuokalani and mother of Princess Kaiulani. she died our hospital will be jeopardized. Good nurses and clinicians, un of unknown causes, Pediatrician and NHCOE Fellow Kelli.Ann able to perform to their potential, will leave. And so will you, the Noelani Frank Voloch MD emphasizes the importance of ad patients ou will be flying to Honolulu to get the quality of care dressing spiritual and psychological, as well as physical, needs of you need and deserve. From being the only profitable hospital in patients. December’s choice, Elizabeth Keawepo’ooleinamoku the system. we will lose market share and join the rest of the l-IHSC Sumner Achuck, lady-in-waiting to Princess Likelike, composed facilities swimming in red ink. the beloved song Sanoe with the future Queen Liliuokalani. She Thirty years ago, the state assumed the ongoing responsibility for died of diabetic complications. Cultural expert Nalani-Alua Olds assuring that our hospital care meets the minimum requirements treasures her great-grandmother’s legacy of musical talent and of care. .At this moment, the legislature, for reasons of political compositions. infighting, seems to have forgotten that cardinal responsibility. NFICOE’s 2004 Hawaii Medical History Calendar, like those in We are being “punished” along with the KHSC by the legislature. prior years, is a treasure trove for anyone interested in delving more The legislators, some of whom are our own representatives, don’t into Hawaii’s history. Perhaps next year’s calendar vi II include a seem to understand how we operate, what we need to get the job sketch of NHCOE Director Benjamin B. C. Young MD’s many done, and what effect their vindictiveness and short-sightedness contributions: he was crew member on the 1976 maiden voyage of (I can’t believe they don’t know how to read a balance sheet) will the Hokulea, has recorded a CD of Irish folk songs, and is the first have on us here at the local level. Either they provide for us, or kanaka mao/i to have become a psychiatrist! Mahalo, Ben, for this they should get out of the hospital business and allow this hospital outstanding calendar! to go on its own, or allow another to be built by private concerns, Or at least anesthetize us before they use the axe (when we run out Call NHCOE for further information about the calendar at (808) of scalpels). 956-5826, Facsimile (808) 956-6588. Why is this so hard’?Is Hawaii really such poor state that we can’t afford to give excellent health care to our residents and visitors’? Vancouver charges a $10 exit fee to fund its airport. We could do the same for visitors leaving our airports and raise $40M a year to fund not just our hospital’s crying needs, but other infrastructural necessities as well. An old idea to be sure, but isn’t time to try something that would work’?

Editor c Vote: Pm Third from p. 146 Steven M. Moser M.D. is a nephrologist on Maui and has served as Medica Director 0,1the Maui Memorial Hospital. The name left uncompleted, a great loss to his readers. Although well known Moser should he very flimiliar to Hawaii physicians. His father to his family, friends and colleagues we will not have his particular Robert practiced internal medicine on Maui for many ‘ears and insight and literary statement of that period of his outstanding life, then became the E3ecutive Director of the American College of What we do have is a synopsis in the form of his retirement speech Physicians. Bob Moser now lives in Green l4illev, Arizona. to the physicians of Straub Clinic June 26, 1995, a witty and insight This commentary appeared as a colu,nn, “Island lthices’ in the ful snapshot of medical practice at one of the premier clinics and Honolulu Advertiser. Steve, inahalo fir permitting us to reprint hospitals of Honolulu, Hawaii. this in the Hawaii Medical Journal as a commentary. He can lie I strongly recommend this book not only for a medically oriented reached at j [email protected] or at 135 5. VfiikeaStreet, Suite 105, reader hut for a general readership. I am grateful for the family Kahului HI 96732. members who urged him to write down the stories that he had told them and for the fact that he did what they asked and for the editors who were responsible for making this delightful book available to us all.

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