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Jf^S MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA. tiuii under which we are now living, no medical bill could be collected over a certain amount, unless every item of the account could be proven over that amount by other evidence than the oath of the physician, which virtually amounted to the prohibition of the collection of bills over that amount-It may be said that they were placed on an equal footing with the merchants and mechanics who were subjected to the same process in the collection of their bills. Even if it were so, which I do not admit, as the evidence in those cases could be more easily reached, yet I contend that there is no reason why they should be placed in the same category. The one is an article of specific nature, having a specific value, upon which a specific estimate may be placed. The other, who can estimate its value ? Who, I say, can estimate the value of the services of the true physician in dollars and cents ? He who exposes himself by night and bj day, through sunshine and through storm, to the ^'pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noonday/' At the saine time I wish to be understood in this connection. While we contend that the public should recognize our claims to a just compensation for our services by proper legal enactments, we place the performance of our duties to them on higher grounds than mere pecuniary compensation. The desire of gain is not the only motive which actuates the true physician. The consciousness of being useful to his fellow-man and relieving the pangs of human sufiering, are feelings far above any pecuniary satisfaction that could arise in his breast. And he who is a stranger to the higher and holier emotions which animate the bosom of the individual, conscious of having been instrumental in relieving the sufferings of his fellows, and snatching as it were from the embrace of d-eath the loved ones of earth, is unworthy of the high vocation he professes. Coming down still later to our own time, since the unfortunate struggle which has prostrated every branch of industry in the South, the legislation of the country has operated still more disastrously upon the interests of the medical profession.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-14: Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Document Title | Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Meeting. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1868-1886. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1874 |
Identifier | NCHH-14-021 |
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. |
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 | 21 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-14/nchh-14-021.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-14 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-14-021 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-14 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983312 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 62 |
Document Title | Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Meeting. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1868-1886. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1874 |
Identifier | NCHH-14-021-0064 |
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. |
Filename | transactionsofan21medi_0064.jp2 |
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 | 21 |
Page Number | 62 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | Jf^S MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA. tiuii under which we are now living, no medical bill could be collected over a certain amount, unless every item of the account could be proven over that amount by other evidence than the oath of the physician, which virtually amounted to the prohibition of the collection of bills over that amount-It may be said that they were placed on an equal footing with the merchants and mechanics who were subjected to the same process in the collection of their bills. Even if it were so, which I do not admit, as the evidence in those cases could be more easily reached, yet I contend that there is no reason why they should be placed in the same category. The one is an article of specific nature, having a specific value, upon which a specific estimate may be placed. The other, who can estimate its value ? Who, I say, can estimate the value of the services of the true physician in dollars and cents ? He who exposes himself by night and bj day, through sunshine and through storm, to the ^'pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noonday/' At the saine time I wish to be understood in this connection. While we contend that the public should recognize our claims to a just compensation for our services by proper legal enactments, we place the performance of our duties to them on higher grounds than mere pecuniary compensation. The desire of gain is not the only motive which actuates the true physician. The consciousness of being useful to his fellow-man and relieving the pangs of human sufiering, are feelings far above any pecuniary satisfaction that could arise in his breast. And he who is a stranger to the higher and holier emotions which animate the bosom of the individual, conscious of having been instrumental in relieving the sufferings of his fellows, and snatching as it were from the embrace of d-eath the loved ones of earth, is unworthy of the high vocation he professes. Coming down still later to our own time, since the unfortunate struggle which has prostrated every branch of industry in the South, the legislation of the country has operated still more disastrously upon the interests of the medical profession. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-14/nchh-14-021.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-14 |
Article Title | Annual Address |
Article Author | Pierce, A. B. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-14-021 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-14 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983312 |
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