Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determining his fee, a high-grade physician considers his patient and the circumstances of the case. So, too, does the high-grade hangman...
...famed guests, Walter Damrosch. who 50 years ago played accompaniments for Madame Gerster, told anecdotes to recall her invincible personality. Once in St. Louis she announced herself too ill to sing but a certificate was necessary to convince the audience. The physician pronounced just a slight inflammation of the epiglottis and, angry, Madame Gerster sang. His bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel...
...years ago Alexander Lambert, expert physician, endorsed narcosan (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). He believed it a merited, specific cure for drug addiction. That was after it had been given a thorough tryout in Manhattan's correctional hospital...
...best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell University Medical School; Thomas McGoldrick, medical director of Saint Peters Hospital, Brooklyn; Israel Strauss, president of the Jewish Mental Health Society; George B. Wallace, assistant physician, Bellevue Hospital and Linsly R. Williams, director of the New York Academy of Medicine...
...doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting in the U. S. "has grown to alarming proportions." It results, stated Dr. Hartwell categorically, "in two evils: 1) the selection by the family physician of a specialist who will pay the rebate, which may readily lead to the employing of a less qualified man than would otherwise be obtained; 2) an increased charge by the specialist to cover the unacknowledged rebate. It is a secret understanding between two professional men which they dare...