Rules and Regulations
for the
Staff of the Out-Door Department
of Mt. Sinai Hospital
I. The staff of the Out-Door Department shall, for the present, consist of fourteen physicians,
attending to the four departments already established: Internal Pathology, External Pathology,
Gynaecology [sic], and Paediatrics [sic].
II. New departments may be created when necessary.
III. The Staff of the Out-Door Department shall hold regular meetings at intervals, and in
accordance with rules to be determined by its own members.
IV. At the last regular meeting of each year, the staff shall elect from among its members, a
President and a Secretary, which officers shall attend to the internal business of the staff, and represent
it in all its relations with the Medical Board, and with the Board of Directors, during the ensuing year.
V. Special meetings of the staff of the Out-Door Department may be called at any time by its
President, in compliance with a request, either from any two members of the staff, from the Secretary
of the Medical Board, or from the Secretary of the Board of Directors.
VI. It shall be the duty of the members of the staff of the Out-Door Department to attend
regularly at their respective classes, or in case of unavoidable absence, to procure a substitute, for a
period of not over a week, immediate notice of which shall be given to the Supervisory Committee.
VII. The members of the staff shall use the greatest economy possible, in prescribing medicines
for the sick in the Dispensary.
VIII. Requisitions for instruments, or apparatus, or suggestions for the management of the work
of the Out-Door Department, shall be made at a regular meeting of the staff, and submitted by the
Secretary to the Supervisory Committee of the Medical Board.
IX. If any charges or complaints are made against members of the staff of the Out-Door
Department, they shall be submitted to the President, who shall either bring them personally before the
member in question, or before a meeting of the entire staff, for its action in the matter. A majority vote
of the members of the Staff shall, if desired by them, be transmitted to the Medical Board for
ratification or rejection. It is by this means, if necessary, that the resignation of a member shall be
requested.
X. Resignations shall be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Out-Door Staff, and if accepted by
that staff transmitted to the Secretary of the Supervisory Committee of the Medical Board for
ratification. Applications for appointment to the staff of the Out-Door department may be made either
to the Secretary [handwritten correction: Secretaries] of the Board of Directors, of the Supervisory
Committee of the Medical Board, or of the Staff of the Out-Door Department. All applications favorably
considered by the two bodies first named shall be sent to the Out-Door Staff for opinion, and such
names as are then favorably returned to the Supervisory Committee of the Medical Board shall be
considered by them for appointment, and their selection reported to the Board of Directors for
confirmation.
XI. All official communications, of any nature whatsoever, from any member of the Out-Door
Staff to the Board of Directors, or the Supervisory Committee of the Medical Board, must be made
through one of the officers of the Out-Door Staff to the Secretary of the Supervisory Committee of the
Medical Board.
XII. Amendments or additions to these rules may at any time be suggested in a meeting of the
staff of the Out-Door Department, and if accepted after suitable discussion by two-thirds of the
members of the staff, may be sent to the Medical Board, for ratification or rejection.
