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Show NEVER ASK FOR THEIR FEE. Japanese Physicians Leave Compensa-Hldn Compensa-Hldn to Their Patients. A Japanese doctor nover thinks ot asking a poor patient for a fee. There is a proverb among tho medical fraternity fra-ternity of Japan: "When tho twin enemies, poverty and disease, Invade a home, then ho who takes aught from that homo, oven though it bo given him, is a robber." "Often," says Dr. Matsumoto, "a doctor will not only glvo his time and his medlclno freely to the sufferer, but he will also glvo htm money to tide him , over his dlro necessities. Every physician has his own dispensary, dispen-sary, and there aro very few chemists' shops in the empire. When a rich man calls in a physician he does not expect ex-pect to bo presented with a bill for his medical services. In fact, no such thing as a. doctor's bill Is known in Japan, although nearly all tho othor modern appliances are in voguo there. The doctor never asks for his fee. Tho strict honesty of tho pooplo makes this unnecessary. When he has finished fin-ished with a patient, u prosent is mado to him nf whatever sum tho patient pa-tient or his friends may deem to bo Just compensation. Tho doctor Is supposed sup-posed to smllo, till--' tho feo, bow, and thank his patron." |