Show emoluments OF MEDICINE physicians are not very well paid and mut must do great deal of gratuitous work in a recent number the medical record indulged in some extremely pessimistic reflections based upon the assumption that the practicing physician cian of today Is in a lamentable number of instances finding difficulty in making both ends meet and la Is peculiarly culi cul arly farly the victim ot of the prevailing high cost of living the tha records statement will doubtless surprise many but it undoubtedly contains a kernel of truth the reports ot of the incomes of 0 physic physicians lawt are frequently much exaggerated and few keople take into account the amount of work they do dd gratuitously it Js s of course true that P physicians C and surgeons sometimes amass comfortable it if not large fortunes lut but generally the profession does not lend itself to the accumulation of ireat great wealth few physicians or even prominent surgeons are exempt from the usual results of a general credit aud and losses sometimes loom large in the record of the years work As aa a rule with the usual exception exceptions cep tion physicians do more actual work without hopi hope or expectation of reward other than that which comes from well dong doing than the members of other professions under ordinary circumstances the income of the clergyman however modest la Is stated find and there are still other professions in n which gratuitous service Is rare |