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Show WELCOME HOME, DOCTOR The following excerpt from Colliers Magazine of March 21 w as called to our attention by a Milford citizen who also handed us his check for a goodly sum, made payable to Milford's returning Medical Corps veteran, in payment of a several-years-old account. We think it's a good idea and a grand gesture. Doctors who served in the war are coming com-ing hon-.e in considerable numbers now, and in many communities you can hear sighs of relief plus the frequent remark: 'Well thank heaven, I can get sick now.' Welcome-home editorials are appearing' in local newspapers as favorite physicians re turn; testimonial dinners are being thrown profusely; the medical veterans are being invited to address Rotary, Kiwanis, etc. luncheons; and all this and that. It's all veiy .nice, and no doubt the doc tors are pleased. We think, however, that we have an idea for a welcome-home pro gram which any community can stage, and which should be of substantial benefit to the doctors so welcomed. In honor of each physician who comes back from the wars, how about a Pay The Guy What You Owed Him When He Left If You Owed Him Anything movement? Most doctors are poor bill collectors. Many people let the doctor's bills go to the last. Many others just nonchalantly forget about the doctor's bills and squawk fiercely if he squawks at'all. It adds up to the fact that on practically every doctor's books are large amounts in unpaid bills. He could very conveniently use that money after several sev-eral years on modest service pay. No bands, Juncheons, reception committees, commit-tees, etc., are need for this Pay The Guy etc. movement. All that is required is a mass migration to the mailboxes by doctors' debtors debt-ors with envelopes containing checks or money orders in their hands. The ceremony is guaranteed to make the debtor as well as the doctor feel better. |