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...extremely surprised and shocked to read in TIME, July 1 about the huge bill for professional services that Dr. Kris sent the Hoopers of Manorville, L.I. for helping pull little Benny out of a well [after public uproar, Dr. Kris cancelled his $1,500 bill]. Only socialized medicine can curb the heartless and uncontrolled mass exploitation on the part of physicians and dentists in the U.S. and Canada. Things are getting so bad that poor people cannot afford to seek medical help, have a tooth fixed, or even fall into a well by accident, without losing their shirts to those...
...feel that Dr. Kris's charges in the Hooper case were not only consistent but considerate. Have you hired an electrician or plumber lately? Also, are all of those patients of Dr. Kris's who might have consulted him during this period of 100 hours going to send him a check for the services they didn't receive? As for Benny's parents, who started the whole fuss by making public Dr. Kris's statement, I would like to say that if more parents spent more time supervising their children, fewer people would have...
...short order, the medical profession was defending its own ethics and condemning Kris. Said Illinois' Dr. Edwin S. Hamilton, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees: "Not one doctor in a thousand would have charged a fee. We strongly disagree with the action of the doctor."* Said the head of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Paul Hawley: "A terrible thing...
...farther. Said he: "If this doctor must exact the last pound of flesh from the practice of his profession," citizens generally should raise a fund to pay the bill. "I am willing," added Purtell, "out of the outrage to my soul, to subscribe the first $50." But, said Dr. Kris, "it's not a question of money. It's a question of principle...
...week's end the mediation committee of Long Island's Suffolk County Medical Society announced after a three-hour session that because Dr. Kris had been under a "mistaken impression" regarding "the limits of the family's ability to pay," there would be no bill for the Hoopers. However, lest a dangerous precedent be set, the committee took pains to note: "Any doctor has the right to render a bill for his service...