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.

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    CHAP. III. cannot be sent for, or met with, it will be within his dis- beet. I. ' cretion to examine the case, and report thereon to the absent practitioner, and a consultation, if deemed expedient, sub- sequently arranged. [In the event of a consultation being so arranged in the interest of the Company, the customary fee should be paid by them.] It is, in fact, to the true interest of the patient that he should be seen by the railway medical officer without any unnecessary delay; and non- compliance with his reasonable request for a professional interview and examination would naturally, and not unfairly, raise a suspicion as to the bona fides of the person alleged to be injured, and, so far, militate against a claim for compen- sation. At the same time, the railway company has no legal right to insist upon an examination without a Judge's order ; the necessity for which, the injured person will, if well advised, be careful to avoid by a timely and willing assent to the necessary examination. Note.—The principle herein enunciated should govern all medical referees, whether acting on behalf of Railway or Accident Insurance Companies, and the like. N.B.—The fact cannot be too strongly emphasized that it is neither to the interest of the patient, nor yet of the company, that their respective medical advisers, however great their divergence of opinion of the case may be, should, so to phrase it, quarrel; for hostile or strained relations not infrequently lead to regrettable and costly litigation, which, by a little tact and mutual forbearance, might be avoided, and the matter amicably arranged. To the preceding rule may be fitly appended, as wise forensic counsel to the young practitioner, and a no less judicious caution, the emphatic opinion expressed by the