The medico-chirurgical tariffs prepared for the late Shropshire Ethical Branch of the British Medical Association / by Jukes De Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes, 1815-1899.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The medico-chirurgical tariffs prepared for the late Shropshire Ethical Branch of the British Medical Association / by Jukes De Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either case—inasmuch as, in the former, the cost of the drugs may be regarded by the practitioner as counter¬ balanced by the retaining hold he has upon the patient. The Tariff is appended in a tabular form, with ex¬ planatory notes—the numerals to which respectively correspond. Note.—In deference to the wishes of various members, an additional form of tariff (No. 2.) is appended for the guidance of those, who, from long established local custom, or other causes, find it impracticable to at once effect a change in the system of fees. In that event, the Council would strongly recommend such practitioners, while charg¬ ing the items separately in the ledger, to send in a simple account for the sum total: and to allow any dissatisfied patient to refer to the ledger for particulars, rather than submit to the degrading system of 1 drug details/ So essential, indeed, to the true interests of the profession do your Council regard the principle involved, that, to facilitate, and, as far as possible, universalize so desirable a change, and, at the same time, relieve individual practitioners from the odium (a 'powerful deterrent,) engendered in patients by desistance from the immemorial ‘ detail ’ system, they would hail with great satisfaction a recommendatory ‘ form of professional account ’ under the sanction of the General Medical Council, or of the several Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons—which latter, moreover, by issuing, as in other countries, a medico-chirurgical tariff for the guidance of their junior members, would confer a boon on the profession and the public that could not fail to have a healthy conservative influence on the mutual relations between (doctor and patient.’ Your Council
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