Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1915 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PHYSICIANS SYSTEMATIZE A PART OF THE BUSINESS SIDE OF THE PROFESSION. . • 0 The Medical Society Will Maintain a “Won’t Pay’’ Class List./ It has been an axiom from time immemorial that physicians as a class are poor business men. This has become so from one or all of the following reasons: First,' their energy and - time is entirely consumed with patients. Secondly, the laws are enacted by’ lawyers who forgot to make definite provision for the collection of medical accounts. Thirdly, a great many clients have a habit of paying the grocer, The baker and the candlestick maker and then if a littlo. money is left and no place else is found for it they pay a little on account at the doctor’s, And fourthly, most physicians do not enter medicine as a commercial business arid therefore neglect that side of the profession. Rensselaer and vicinity is an up-to-date neighborhood and among other things demands well trained physicians, and right it should—but the attendance at medical meetings, literature and office equipment, post-graduate courses and numerous other things require a constant drain of cash. Every physician has four classes of patients, judged financially, namely: Patients whose accounts are collectable. Patients whose accounts are not collectable by law but good through the honesty of the person. ( harity patients who are accepted and fully understood as such. Patients whose accounts are not collectable and who are perfectly willing to beat a medical bill. This last class is the one that has always required considerable attention because they will call one of the newer physicians and get a credit established by paying promptly for a while; then they begin to pay only a part and finally when the main bill gets largq_x.hey hunt up a new physician, and so on. It is this class of accounts that the medical society is now attempting to regulate. Therefore, the Society issues «this notice‘through the press that on and after March Ist, 1915, a list will be kept by the society of such clients who in the judgment of the physician handing such names to the society, can but will not pay. Such list will he corrected at each monthly meeting and, only the physicians will have access to the list. This action will operate on the medical profession in this Way, that no physical! can respond to a call from any one on the list. It will operate on this class of patients_Jn that they will either appeal to the township trustee for a physician or settle their medical bill. This measure will in no way affect true charity Patients, for each member of the Society has a certain number of worthy patients who cannot pay and lie knowing them to be such, will gladly continue to care for them. All physicians of Rensselaer have signed such an agreement.—-Advt.

Obituary of Cyrus A. Ball. Cyrus Austin Hall was born May 16, 184 4, "died Jan. 6, 1915, at the age of7o years, 7 months and 20 days. He-was married to Savina Randle March 12, 1871. She died Eeb. 15, 1888, and Mr. Ball was married in 1890 to Miss Anna Evans, who died Oct. 27, 1909. Mr. Ball was a soldier in the civil war; He also enlisted in the army of the Lord. He has left the record in his own hand that his first attempt to love God was on New Year’s day of 1868. It was truly a good way of beginning the new year. With his first wife he united on April 9, 1876, with the church at Brushwood Clasw near Reifsselaer. From this time he continued to be a faithful and steadfast member of the church. In his last sickness he was evidently glad to hear some passage from the word of God, and to join in prayer, as in former days he had been ready to talk of the churches and the advancement of the Kingdom of God. He was preceded In death by his two brothers and three sisters, bethe last of the family. He Is survived by all of his own children, three sons and one daughter by the first marriage and one son and one daughter by the second' marriage, xx

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