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Show I'nigjafTMMMMnmannMMMWMW fOHAL: PAY YOUR PHYSICIAN. H.rs't a Word or Two in Defense of the Family Doctor. DM you ever notlco how reluctant n"tnp pcoplo nro about paying tlio doctor? doc-tor? When atrlckon with a severe pain In lio epigastrium about two g. m. t'icy cry out In affright, for they" feel f'o damp of death upon their brows. Nothing to do but telephone Dr. Sew-omupH Sew-omupH to como at once. He has been to Cheney and back since the poolroom pool-room closed for tho night, but he rubs his aching eyes, puts on his clothes nnd pulls out Into the frosty air for another three miles and back. He finds the patient Buffering from gas trio fermentation from having overloaded over-loaded his stomach. Tho disorder Is easily remedied, and the man soon gets about his business and forgets all about it. Thirty days later ho gets a bill for four dollars, and It makes him nngry. Ho forgets tho pain (there's no such thing as pain), the doctor's nix-mile rldo In the dark of tho moon when ho ought to have been asleep, and he forgets to pay tho bill, or grumbles about It as though It were an extortion that aught to bo punish-nblo punish-nblo by legal process or otherwise Moral: If you don't want to pay tho doctor, don't send for him. Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal |
