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Show PIIYSICIANSJEK ELEVATED Industrial Commlstlon Promotes Now Scalo For Doctors. Kererniig to treatment or the m Hru cusp in eaih inslmiie, u mw jjIiwIuIh or ml to be charged hi t tah nh)sicimi Hiid surgeons has In t n lenlatively upjirove.! by the slate nt dustrml commission, hut subject t i mnendment and revision alter n pub ie hearing, to whiih all utirns wi'l Ih inutril, shall liwve been held Hi schedule 1 to be effective .lull 1 next Aecmipani Ing the new r, I schedule are rule concerning hamlliiig of thoiHrioiHipiiHitionstliii' nre of nnire or les common reii'r I rtnee in eonneelion with Hdimnistri Hon of the workmen' potniwiisiitu -i mw. Provision f made wherein iwtient who u dissatislied with tin treatment he is reeeiiiiiK tint) oblan M ehaiiKP ul pIl.VMeiHii or or hospUil, without doubling hi hill or imrea- , HW it in nny sense. Dm tor lindii-themseliM lindii-themseliM uufmiiiliar with n east It, ' fore them nro nipiired to tall in lit I of those morn i uracil in tho mrtlculNr problem presented. "Some or the best phisiclitu in Ihe state," k,ivh 1'. A. Thatiher (haimiaii of tlm loiuimssiou, "liavi in the past refused to tnke case that nunc under tho workmen ' lompeu wit Inn lavv, be mine or tho low fw that hunt been contained in the form r whedulo. Tho result has In in sometiine that snum of the injureil euiilo,us hint) betn trwited bv ph.isi linns who .worn not iiuulified to liiki such (Mimplieated or iuiMirtmit etm Oiensiouall) bad lestilu have betn t mi ml to mult faulty trtwtuumt. 'I In maximum feea under the new wlied tile nm nppnixlnintely the iiiiiiiiiiun fees (hut the physicians or tliu stst. nhiirgu other pwple for i-orresjMinil ing treatment." An idea of tho advance made m tho tentative seludule, as eunmro! with Iho rate now In elfect, inn) I gmncd from tho I'm I Hint tho prevail ing fee for amputation of tho hip t-flfl.v-tive dollar, while under (In pniKwv(I rale it will be two hundrel dollar. Amputation nt tho shotibhr joint ha been ad vamed from filtv live ilollurs to u hundreil Trentuiei i of u fractured ftmur has been ml innced fnuu thirty to n huudn'd ilol lur and of a f nut tired chiviile from ten to Iwentvfno dollar. Disbuw Hons of tho hip nnd kueo. now paid for nt Iho rate of twmty or fifteen dollars, roapeetiicl), will carr) n let of u huiulred dollnrs. Trejihiiihig ot the skull will eal for n hundred and filty dollars instead of tho present fee of sixty dollars. For ull minor operations, ineludini; suturing nnd drossuig, the proposed schedule is earning fifteen dollar its ngniust tho present five dollar 'Ihe ph)sieinn who aits at n major operation is to rtieiio tho twenty-five dollars insdnd of ten. |