Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — Doctors’ Fees in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Doctors’ Fees in Europe.

Perhaps in the mailer of doctors’ fees it might be ns well to glance at France and Germany. In both these countries there is a regular tariff for the visits of medical practitioners, often—nay, generally—exceeded by rich patients, but affording a guaiantee against excessive charge for the poorer. It is also a satisfaction to the public mind generally to know exactly what they will have to pay when calliQg.in a doctor. Permit me further to draw attention to 'a point of medical etiquette in North Germany. Except in cases of severe illness, when daily attendance is absolutely necessary, a doctor never repeats a visit. He must be requested to do so. This cus-

tom has its advantages, as it will often happen in oases of slight illness that a single visit suffices. If medical fees are too high with us, they are too low in Germany and France (two marks and two francs a visit), excepting, of oourse, in the fashionable watering-plaoes whither none but rich folk tie take themselves.—j Pall Mall Gazette.