Large fees and how to get them : a book for the private use of physicians / by Albert V. Harmon ; with introductory chapter by G. Frank Lydston.

  • Harmon, Albert V.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Large fees and how to get them : a book for the private use of physicians / by Albert V. Harmon ; with introductory chapter by G. Frank Lydston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER XIII. Prescribing of Remedies. Why Physicians Should Dispense Their Own Prescriptions—Trouble With Present System of Drug-store Dispensing—Number of Drugs Actually Re- quired in Practice Limited—Duplication of Prescriptions by Pharmacists an Injustice to Doctors—Proprietary Medicine Fakirs—Prescribing Secret Formula Preparations—How Many Practitioners Are Hoodwinked—Positive Injury in Prescribing Remedies by Trade Names—Violation of Code in Using Preparations With Unknown Ingredients—Value of Mystery in the Administration of Drugs—Unwise to Let Patients Know Too Much About Their Prescriptions —Why All Remedies Should Be Designated in Latin— Views of Dr. Osier on Drug Prescribing 179 CHAPTER XIV. Medical Steerers and Their Work. Method by Which Many Physicians Obtain Patients—Men Who Make a Business of Directing Invalids Where to Go for Treatment—Commer- cial Diplomats—Their Style of Work—Large Incomes—How Sufferers Are Approached—The Kind of Talk That Wins the Confidence of the Sufferer—Directing the Victim to a Physician—Landing the Patient in the Doctor's Office—The Steerer's Commission—How He Protects Himself and In- sures Square Treatment by the Doctor—Opportunities for Obtaining Patients—Leading Hotels Favorite Places of Operation—Old Brace Faro Game Worked in New Form —Women Steerers and Their Methods 187 CHAPTER XV. What Should the Physician Do? Various Remedies Pro- posed for Existing Conditions—Too Many Doctors in the Land—Not Enough Patients to Go Around—What the Med- ical Colleges Are Doing—Over 5,000 Doctors Made Every Year in the Strictly Ethical Schools Alone—Temptations of Young Physicians—What Men Like Dr. Evans and Dr. King Have to Say—Prominent Practitioners Endorse Divi- sion of Fees as an Act of Justice—Prof. George Burman Foster on the Profession as Allied to Business—No Rea- son Why There Should Be Any Distinction Between the Two 195 CHAPTER XVI. Corporation Doctors. Evils of the Contract Plan—How It Injures the Regular Practitioner and the Contract Doctor Himself—Miserly Economy by Corporations—Disastrous Competition Among Physicians—Life Insurance Examiners and Their Lack of Business Sense Moral as Well as Med- ical Honesty Dwarfed by the Corporation System—Contract
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