Show A LESSON FOR physicians spirit of harshness and lordliness no longer tolerated thore there Is one good result of an overcrowded profession and of tho the sharp competition that exists among doctors in the rivalry for popular favor this is the disappearance of the old time spirit of harshness and lordliness which sometimes degenerated into positive brutality these characteristics te wore were the natural products of an original boorishness increased by success and a comparative monopoly of practice it takes a gentlemanly mind not to be spoiled by the attitude of subservience on the part of patients and the habit of ordering by the physician in charge in every large community there arc still left specimens of medical dr johnsons who from a ruder age have carried down a cross and commanding acerbity of manner that is now out of 0 place and time in one of our large american cities there is an example known far and wide his loss of patients does not teach him any lesson and seems rather to increase his churlishness he seems to take a special delight in hurting the feelings of his patients by a perverse irascibility A patient who was shocked by thle this manner in the very tery beginning of the examination suddenly stopped and in a quiet manner asked the amount ol of tho the customary fee paid it and without a word walked away there are better reasons of course against un kindness and coarse egotism but it certainly no longer pays for ciana to be ungentlemanly Amo american rican medicine |