Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1920 — Night Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Night Doctors.

"Paris has organized a service of night doctors,” writes a correspondent from the French capital. “It is rather remarkable,’’ continues the correspondent, that we have not had this before. “You fall 111 In the night, or four relation falls ill. You immediately telephone to the family doctor. Possibly he is out attending a case. Who, then, to summon? You don’t know. Someone thinks there is a doctor two streets away, and away you dash. Yes, he is in, and he will come. He comes. He is a tired man. His eyes are heavy with sleep. Aside, he tells you he has had little rest for a week. Ts your own medical adviser bad come It would have been the same. What a travesty of system to work men night and day! Manifestly there ought to be a panel of doctors—fresh, vigorous, and ready for a busy night s work —who have not been at work during ’the day. In Paris, the night doctor will be Installed at the police station and he will be ready, of course, to go wherever he is called.**