Thursday, November 09, 2006

11. Joyce Green's motto

Thinking a bit more about hospital badges with their emblems and mottos has made me wonder if Joyce Green Hospital ever had a motto ?

Bombay Hospital's motto apparently arose from something that Mahatma Ghandi once said. "A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider, he is a part of it of our hospital. We are not doing a favour by serving him, he is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so".

So, if the definition of the word motto is: "a short sentence or phrase encapsulating a belief or ideal" what then I wonder was JG's motto ... if it ever had one ? Or, if it didn't have one, I wonder what phrase might have encapsulated the hospital's endeavours ?

Two questions then ... Do you know whether the hospital ever had a motto (and given that "Joyce" served humanity for nearly one hundred years, it seems highly likely that one of our predecessors might well have produced one) and secondly,- can you suggest something that might have been suitable, just for the fun of it ? What about the latin phrase: "Experientia docet" - Experience is the best teacher ?