Mehmed Ali’s thrift undercut his own army’s hospital provisioning
Evidence
In that respect the Chief Physician of the army sometimes had the backing of the Pasha; more often, however, the Pasha in his typical thrifty manner would require him to make do with what was available. For example, when it was brought to his attention that students in the School of Medicine were issued with small uniforms that did not fit them, he characteristically answered that “each person has to extend his legs as much as could be covered by his trousers.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1131
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Mehmed Ali’s stinginess undermined the effectiveness of his hospitals (similarity 0.87)
- Mehmed Ali had to override bureaucratic excuses to enforce hospital standards (similarity 0.85)
- Egyptian army hospitals were chronically underfunded despite spending a fraction of European levels (similarity 0.84)
- Mehmed Ali’s chronic frugality starved his army’s medical services of funds (similarity 0.82)
- Mehmed Ali faced constraints that forced him to deviate from his own regulations (similarity 0.82)
- Mehmed Ali treated legal codes as flexible models subject to pragmatic violation (similarity 0.81)
- The gap between written regulations and actual practice pervaded Mehmed Ali’s entire rule (similarity 0.80)
- Mehmed Ali demanded 36,000 uniforms yet saw production fall far behind. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Mehmed Ali had to override bureaucratic excuses to enforce hospital standards
#complicates(0.45) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1134