Show TO P pa HE CIVIL TRIBUNAL ot of montpellier THE prance frame rendered a decision which has created a prec dent in medical jurisprudence that aill UI proa probably ably be cited in the future in all cases a artre there Is a dispute between a physician and his patient over the charges ot of the former tor for medical sen aenice ice jhc decision registers the opinion that while the physician is alone competent to fix the fee for his hi service lee et the amount of that tee fee should be determined b bs the patient patients s ability to discharge the sane same vitt without hout ndue embarrassment according to the comment of the french law jeur journals nals the importance of the decision lies in the tact fact that it permits a poor man to seek the most eminent sen ice and does not torce force hime to choose a medical r whose fees are knon to tit lit hia his means the principle of ability to pay invoiced invoked in the adjustment of vaar debts promises to be utilized in other than inter national debts in fact brothers have perfected uch such a system and it seems to ghe perfect satisfaction billere Is a groaning conviction that no person should be denied the best special surgical or medical malce because of lack of ability to pay a lany price arbitrarily fixed by the operator it is because ot at this mounting expense that many students of social economics favor employment of physicians and pi r bons eons by the state |