Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — A Big Fee. [ARTICLE]

A Big Fee.

Minneapolis Tribune. New York's most successful heart ' and lung specialist has a practice that is estimated at fBO,OOO a year. This is not a large estimate. He was one day summoned to the bedside of a very wealthy banker who lived up in Con- 1 necticut, over 100 miles from Newi York City. The eminent physician was ushered into the sick man’s room as s«pn as he arrived. It took him! just five minutes to form his opinion, without resorting to hardly any examination. When the physician came out of the, sick room, the brother of the banker said: “Well, Dr. , what do you think?” “Your brother will not live twentyfour hours,” was the laconic reply. “That is what our physician here, has told us, but we didn’t know but •what there might be a chance for him." “None whatever.” “What is your bill, dootorP” “It will be $1,000.” “Wh—at!” exclaimed the other, “Why, that is outrageous! You haven’t done a thing for us!” r “I have abandoned my practice in " New York for a whole day to come up here in response to your imperative, summons. You wanted to know just what your brother’s chanoee of lifa are. You have found out. My bill is, SI,OOO, no more and no less. I shan’t, abate one cent of it, unless T make ft ~ nothing. You can take your choice between these two courses, but I wouldn't sueyou if you refused to pay.’' A check for SI,OOO was made out to the physician’s order. The haatibr died three heurs lateJg