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Medical Economics, "business magazine of the medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies...
...over the symposium on cancer, in which 30 eminent surgeons shared. One of the best attention-holders was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey of Portland.* Ore., a swarthy, beetling man who was called upon to describe his famed system of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases where the bladder is diseased. Dr. Coffey also described his system of "surgical quarantine." When he operates on a diseased abdomen he blocks off healthy organs with sheets of rubber and packs cotton wicks into the hollows left by organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill...
...somehow interpolated into the mad proceedings. This year the machine is billed as "The Fuller Construction Company's Recording Orchestra." Wearing the bemedaled and lengthy bandmaster's coat which was seen in Fine & Dandy, Comedian Cook picks up his fiddle & bow. The bow has an inflated bladder tied to one end. Mr. Cook plays a few bars, then slaps an attendant across the back of the neck with the bladder. The attendant turns a crank and a small carousel begins to revolve. One of the riders seizes a cardboard milk bottle, breaks it over the ticket-taker...
...match and whether she should have done it, were by no means all that tennis enthusiasts had to argue about after her default. Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, who had been attending Helen Jacobs, said he had advised her not to play, described some of her ailments: "Acute inflamed gall-bladder . . . heart condition not as good as it should have been . . . constantly under treatment." Dr. Chalmers said that Miss Jacobs had played only because of "her sporting idea that a champion should defend her title," that during the final she had sustained herself with whiskey capsules...
...customs had different logics. Egyptians believed that the preservation of a man's identity required the preservation of the entire body. Because the viscera were difficult to preserve in situ the Egyptians lifted them out, put the heart and lungs in one jar.† the liver and bladder in another, the stomach and large intestine in a third, the small intestines in a fourth jar, all of which rested in the tomb with the embalmed body...