Tas recent case of Sloan versus Finl son affords an opportunity for a fow remarks on the subject of doctors' foes in Shanghai. That the decision was jast and right, everyone, we should think, will agree. Ib would be most reprehensible on the part of any doctor if he were to really undertake to attend a ship's crew for twenty dollars during period of three mouths, No doctor either could or ought to sell his services at so nominal a figure, in justice to both his patients and to his fellow-practitioners, Twenty dollars a month, the rate actually charged in the case of Dr. Sloan, was a fair and moderate amount, and the doctor deserved to win his case.. The life of " medical man who attends the shipping in harbour cannot but be a very arduous one, He has to go on the river in all weathers, even at the expense of a certain amount of risk, and when he arrives on board it is presamable that his duties there are not of a particular. ly agreeable natare. Ho is not so well off from the standpoint of comfort as his confrere who drives all day in a cosy brougham and whose practice lies among the houses of the well-to-do. On the whole, there is no doubt that the fees darged by doctors in Shang. hai are very. moderate, Any man of moderate circumstances, we believe, is at liberty to contract with his medical adviser to attend him for the sum of Tis, 50 s year, and this is by no means an exorbitant charge. When it is a case of firms or families, the fairness of the arrangement is still more apparent. A man who prefers to rely upon the excellence of his constitution and the consequent improbability of his falling sick, will of course find that he incurs a proportionately heavy expenditure in the case of occa sional illness, It ie then customary to charge him so much per visit; but eveq
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