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Show 00 PHYSICIAN FINED FOR PROFITEERING BUDAPEST, June 3 Physicians can be profiteers and sentenced to Imprisonment, Im-prisonment, according to a decision b) the supreme court of Hungary. This opinion was reached in a case where a country doctor charged his patient 6000 kronen (about ?3) for a night call, the usual fee being soo kronen 1 11 bout 25 cents ) The lower courts found that tho Is a against profiteers is restricted to trade and commerce nnd cannot be applied to the learned professions. But iho supremo court bus given a new Interpretation to the law, extending extend-ing It not onl to physlciapa lawyers, engineers, etc. but to artists and members mem-bers of the professions generally I C-der C-der the now ruling even an actress can be fined and punished for exacting "extravagant remuneration evidently not in proportion with tho value of the service. " |