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Show After a hard day's work at-1 tending the sick he retires with the hope that he may be permit-, , ted a few hours sleep, but per- . haps hardly hits the pillow before be-fore the telephone rings and he leams Mrs. John Smith has developed dev-eloped pneumonia at the High-; 1 land Boy. j Does that fact decide the doc-! ' tor to await until morning. Ab-1 solutely no. There is never a! question about it. lie drags: 1 himself from the warm covers,! dresses, goes out, gets his car,; and he is away on his journey, battling the elements, and fighting fight-ing sleep in order that Mrs. John Smith may live and care for her home and children. ' Fifty years of such work will not make a Bingham doctor rich yet he has the knowledge that he has given a lifetime to the service of mankind, the feeling that he has returned health and happiness to many of the homes of the people of this great Copper Cop-per camp. Even their patients do not appreciate ap-preciate their worth. Let's discontinue the practise of knocking the doctors of Bingham. Bing-ham. They can never be repaid for the service they have given us. EDITORIAL WHY KNOCK THE DOCTOR? Why criticise the doctor? Unheralded, Un-heralded, unsung, these faithful followers of human ills undergo more genuine hardships in a year than fall to the lot of most people in a lifetime. A few days ago the paltry sal- J ary of the county physician was spoken of as inadequate. It if true, yet he never regards his hardships, his sufferings, "his never-ending labors for a mere pittance as heroism. It is just a matter of plain duty with him, I practically the fulfillment of the code of ethics when he dedicated dedicat-ed his life to the alleviation of sickness and suffering. Take any doctor in Bingham to-day. Some people would not like them to express an opinion, even in athletics, yet they are bigger uncrowned un-crowned heroes thai" many Bing hamites will ever realize. |
