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1008 SELECTED PAPERS 1008 ratio with the lapse of time following the beneficent act? That the longer you allow an account to stand the harder it is to collect? That a favor is soon forgotten, but that an injury is brooded over, making the resentment stronger with years? That you gain only your patient's contempt for your business methods when you allow him indefinite time for the payment of his bill ? That medicine is a business as well as a science, and that the physician who is most business-like in his methods is most esteemed ? That it is a mistake to make your patients your boon social companions? That the social ladder is not the, one to mount if you seek to pluck the persimmon of professional success? That the average man appreciates most what costs him most? That it is better to make six two-dollar visits a day than a dozen one-dollar visits? That the physician should "heel thyself," lest in old age the world say, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the poorhouse."' According to the table compiled by Doctor Jarvis, the life of the average physician is 50. Then, if you begin practice at 24 your active life prospect will be 32 years, and from a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars will represent your average yearly income. Now, were you (through God's mercy) to practice these thirty-two years without losing a single day and collect, say, $8 every day of the time, you would receive but $93,440. Deduct from that amount your expenses for yourself and your family, your horses, carriages, books, periodicals and instruments, your taxes, insurance and a multitude of other items for the whole thirty-two years, 11,680 days; and then, so far from being rich, you would have but little, very little, left to support you after you riaturay reach the down hill of life or are broken down in health and faculties deteriorated and in need of a physician yourself through worry, anxiety and fatigue in the discharge of your duty. Medicine in all ages has attracted into its ranks the most self-sacrificing members of society. As a science it was born in altruism. To this day it offers the greatest opportunity of any department of life for the practice of the most ennobling graces of character. Medical men stand alone among all others on earth in striving with their whole might to extinguish their own business. They preach temperance, virtue and cleanliness, knowing well that when people come to follow their advice their occupation, like Othello's, will be gone. They establish boards of health to arrest disease, while well assured that such sanitary measures steal money from their pockets. If bakers, grocers, dry goods men, carpenters, tailors and members of all other lines of business gave as much of their labor in charity as doctors do poverty would be w'iped from the face of the earth. A very important question when a medical service is performed is, "What is a reasonable fee—one that represents justice to both parties?" The fact is that money sometimes cannot pay for the services rendered by the doctor, and the physician whose sole aim is to make money is a disgrace to his profession. You can't pay for a mother's love, nor can you pay for the faithful services of a physician who, day and night for weeks, pours upon you the treasures of years of study and observation
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-20: The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Document Title | The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Carolina Medical Journal, 1900-1908. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1907 |
Identifier | NCHH-20-056 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 56 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 1008 |
Document Title | The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Carolina Medical Journal, 1900-1908. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1907 |
Identifier | NCHH-20-056-0784 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 56 |
Issue Number | 10 |
Page Number | 1008 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 1008 SELECTED PAPERS 1008 ratio with the lapse of time following the beneficent act? That the longer you allow an account to stand the harder it is to collect? That a favor is soon forgotten, but that an injury is brooded over, making the resentment stronger with years? That you gain only your patient's contempt for your business methods when you allow him indefinite time for the payment of his bill ? That medicine is a business as well as a science, and that the physician who is most business-like in his methods is most esteemed ? That it is a mistake to make your patients your boon social companions? That the social ladder is not the, one to mount if you seek to pluck the persimmon of professional success? That the average man appreciates most what costs him most? That it is better to make six two-dollar visits a day than a dozen one-dollar visits? That the physician should "heel thyself" lest in old age the world say, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the poorhouse."' According to the table compiled by Doctor Jarvis, the life of the average physician is 50. Then, if you begin practice at 24 your active life prospect will be 32 years, and from a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars will represent your average yearly income. Now, were you (through God's mercy) to practice these thirty-two years without losing a single day and collect, say, $8 every day of the time, you would receive but $93,440. Deduct from that amount your expenses for yourself and your family, your horses, carriages, books, periodicals and instruments, your taxes, insurance and a multitude of other items for the whole thirty-two years, 11,680 days; and then, so far from being rich, you would have but little, very little, left to support you after you riaturay reach the down hill of life or are broken down in health and faculties deteriorated and in need of a physician yourself through worry, anxiety and fatigue in the discharge of your duty. Medicine in all ages has attracted into its ranks the most self-sacrificing members of society. As a science it was born in altruism. To this day it offers the greatest opportunity of any department of life for the practice of the most ennobling graces of character. Medical men stand alone among all others on earth in striving with their whole might to extinguish their own business. They preach temperance, virtue and cleanliness, knowing well that when people come to follow their advice their occupation, like Othello's, will be gone. They establish boards of health to arrest disease, while well assured that such sanitary measures steal money from their pockets. If bakers, grocers, dry goods men, carpenters, tailors and members of all other lines of business gave as much of their labor in charity as doctors do poverty would be w'iped from the face of the earth. A very important question when a medical service is performed is, "What is a reasonable fee—one that represents justice to both parties?" The fact is that money sometimes cannot pay for the services rendered by the doctor, and the physician whose sole aim is to make money is a disgrace to his profession. You can't pay for a mother's love, nor can you pay for the faithful services of a physician who, day and night for weeks, pours upon you the treasures of years of study and observation |
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Article Title | The Physician As A Business Man |
Article Author | S. D. Weatherby |
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