Identify Two Major Differences in Hospitals Today and 100 Years Ago - 5 Pages ( 739 Words - Apa Format with References)

Identify two major differences in hospitals today and 100 years ago

As defined by Brotherton (1999) a hospitality is a contemporaneous humanexchange, which is voluntarily entered into and designed to enhance the mutual wellbeing of parties and concerned through the provision of accommodation and food or drink.

As compared to 100 years ago, hospitals have changed in a great way. This is because of the outbreak of different new diseases. A modern hospital is highly scientific and complexly institutionalized. This is due to introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. The industry has reached a point of where it need to decide what services to be provided and how cost effectively. The role of the hospital has been broadened crossing the limits of curative health care. Furthermore, the health care has crossed the barrier of the hospital walls to the community care. The modern hospitals have transformed from health care to health education, training, research and disease surveillance.

As defined by O'Gorman (2005) has presented a summary of findings from investigating into historical origins of hospitality in the ancient and classical worlds leading to five dimensions of hospitality: honorable tradition, fundamental to human existence, stratified, diversified and central to human endeavors. He concluded that these dimensions have been evolving from the beginning of human history.

Hospitality is an integral part of human nature and was always an evident virtue throughout history; O'Conner (2005) assessed this theory and discussed that genuine hospitality is printed in our personality at birth and cannot be built or grow over time.

There have been different definitions for hospitality, but as Brotherton (1999) proclaims, the only things which they have in common is their failure to adequately define hospitality per se and confusion of...