The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAP. ir. assented to on any plea other than absolute inability to- Sect. 7. . . — meet it in consequence of poverty, or for a like sufficient reason. [That a man should entrust the lives of himself and family to the care of a medical practitioner with entire confidence, and yet deem him capable of making an unjust charge for the anxious and grave responsibility entailed upon him in the discharge of his onerous duty is one of the curious anomalies and inconsistencies existent in the several grades of life, and which it behoves the profession to courteously but firmly resent. Such patients, indeed,, are best erased from the practitioner's visiting list.] 4. A medical man should carefully abstain, especially in the presence of non-professional persons, from censorious comment on the fees claimed by another practitioner—for th^i latter, however large or small the amount may appear to one imperfectly acquainted with the circumstances, may have good and just reasons for the charges made.