| Show i tt i f 7 A LESSON FOR PHYSICIANS Spirit of Harshness and Lordliness No Longer Tolerated There is one good result of an overcrowded profession and of th the sharp competition that exists among doctors in the rivalry for popular pular fa fa- vor This is the disappearance of the time old-time spirit of harshness and arid lordliness lordliness lord lord- liness which sometimes degenerated into positive brutality These characteristics characteristics characteristics charac charac- were the natural products of an original boorishness Increased by success and a comparative monopoly of practice It takes taken a gentlemanly mind not to be spoiled by the attitude of subservience on the part of patients pa par and the habit of ordering by bythe bythe bythe the physician in charge In every large community there are still left specimens of medical Dr Johnsons who from a ruder age have carried down a cross and commanding acerbity of manner that is now out ol of place and time In one of our large American cities there is an example known far and wide His loss of patients patients pa pa- does not teach him any lesson and seems rather to increase his chur lishness He seems to take a special delight in hurting the feelings of his bis patients by a perverse irascibility A patient who was shocked by this thle manner in the very beginning of the examination suddenly stopped and ina in ina n a a. quiet manner asked the amount ol of the customary fee paid it and without without with with- out a word walked away There are better reasons of course against unkindness unkindness unkindness un- un kindness and and coarse egotism but it 11 certainly no longer pays for physicians physicians to be ungentlemanly American American Medicine |
