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Show would have beon wrong or unethical for that physician to have consulted with the attending surgeon on the size of the fee? I do. not think bo. It would have been perfectly proper, In ray opinion, for, them to have made out one bill and divided afterward or to have sent in their respective bills after an accounting between them had been made. "Why should the .medical profession have a standard of ethics so different than that maintained by lawyers, architects arch-itects or preachers?" CHICAGO PHYSICIANS I HAVE FORMED A UNION Chicago. March 12. Chicago phy-' phy-' slclans have formed a union an amal-I amal-I garaatcd organization identical to tho j plumbers' union. j Dr. Henry F. Lewis of the Chicago i Medical society, vouches for this state- ment. In a communication to the Phy-! Phy-! siclans' club he declares that many , members of the medical fraternity, j who publicly hold up their hands in j "holy horror" at tho thought of dl- vision of fees, themselves secretly I participate In the practice. "I do not believe they aro cloven- hoofed," he declaros. ."Why should j we condemn any man for making such an arrangement with a brother phy-! phy-! slcian or with a Burgeon? One physician phy-sician tells us of a $5,000 fee collected collect-ed by him from a millionaire patient? who had spent $10,000 on a slngiej night's debauch. Do you bellevo it |