Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — DOCTORS IN DANGER. [ARTICLE]

DOCTORS IN DANGER.

Medical Practice la Chinatown At* tended with Inconveniences. Practicing modi cine In Chinatown is not devoid of dangers. As a rule the Chinamen are healthy, amazingly so when one conoldero how they brave the cold winters in light loose garments and low shoes. When a Chinaman is taken seriously ill he prepares to die and there’s an end to it If he doesn’t die it isn’t his fault, and his friends are more than likely to look on him with suspicion as having cheated the gods by his recovery. Under no considerations would he have an American physician, but as a matter of form his relatives summon a celestial medico, who does little to influence the case for good or ill beyond making a little noise and disturbing the patient. What his medl* dues are no white man knows, and but few Chinaman outside of the profession. If the patient dies the doctor Is not btamed; if he gets well the doctor takes great credit But should any peculiar symptoms manifest themselves, then the physician is in an unpleasant position, for he is held directly responsible. A few days ago a New York Chinaman, being 111, was treated by a physician near by. lie developed chills and a violent nausea Just after the physician’s arrival. The attitude of the sick man’s relatives was such that the doctor left hastily. Three days later, while walking through the street, he bad an end-on collision with a brick. The ambulance took him to the hospital, where he was sewed up by the surgeon and Interviewed by the police. AH that they could get out of him was that It was an accident Incident to the pmctlce of medlslna In. the .Chinese ouuute^b