A Commendable Work by L. A. HANSEN.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1915

A Commendable Work

By L. A. HANSEN.

It was my privilege to visit Dr. J. E. Froom, at Boise, Idaho, and make some personal observations of the work he is carrying on there. Besides a regular medical practice, he is operating treatment rooms. Several features are worthy of special mention.

It is about eight years since Dr. Froom settled in Boise. It was a new field for our medical work, nothing in that line having been done before. Little money was at hand, and whatever was done would need to be self-supporting.

Neat and convenient rooms on the third floor of a good office building afford a waiting room, office, and treatment rooms. The furnishings are good, everything is clean, and there prevails an air of orderliness that is pleasing. The equipment is not expensive, but is serviceable. Quite a number of arrangements for comfort and convenience are of home invention, having been made by the doctor and his son Leroy. I secured a promise that some of these would be presented in an article for Life and Health.

Several of our books and papers are in evidence among the literature on the table in the waiting room. A considerable amount of literature is lent to patients, a record being kept of this, with careful follow-up work of inquiry and further supply. Papers, pamphlets, and bound books receive quite extensive circulation.

The doctor and his wife have taken an active interest in church and Sabbath school work, as well as engaging in outside missionary efforts. This has not seemed to affect unfavorably his professional work, and the spiritual results have been more than gratifying.

The treatment room work is done by young people trained to it by the doctor and his wife. Liberal remuneration is given, besides offering a home with Christian influences and security, and an opportunity for acceptable school privileges.

Such a work as this might well be carried on by other physicians. There is no question that such enterprises would be a blessing to the people, to the workers, and to the cause of God.

L. A. HANSEN.