Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-03-08
MEDICAL ETHICS.
The Cendoned Mistake q Young Doctor
Made at the Outset Of His Praetfee.

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The other evening they were having
a jolly time Y in Schneider's back
room, when Bill Matson came in and
apologizsd for being latess saying that
his granduothsr bad got the measles,
and he had been after a doctor for
her, at the same time winking slyly
at Schneider.
"Sho! You don't say sol" ejacu-
lated Blifkins, as he stirred up the
sugar from the bottom of the glass
and crowdedtie lemon peel up against
its side. "You will have to be care
full With the old lady, Bill, especially
when She gets to teething. What
doctor did you get?"
Jones'"
"He's a good one. I've known
him ever since he commenced prac-
ticing. He got into trouble the first
thing by saving a mans life, but he
don't do so any more"
"Tell US about II, Blifw
lyon, see, there was Old Noxon,
who used to have a row with his wife
about three times a week. He got
cranky, and made up his mind to
shuttle off, so he filled up with laud-
anam andwent to bed. When the
old lady found him he was colder'n a
wedge. She went to screaming, and
as fast a the neighbors came in, sent
them off after q doctor Some Of
them went in one direction, and some
in another, and it wasn't long before
the doctors began to congregate.
''Smith got there first and looked
the old man over. Dead says he,
and went away"
s'Then Brown came in, Dead,
says he.
'Jones al the third one in, and
he rammed a stomach-pump down
the old mans throat and pumped up
the drug store. Then he reversed
the action Of the pump and flooded
the old man with water, and after
sloshing him around for awhile, same
as If he was rinsing out a cider bar.
rel, he pumped out the water, and
then flooded him again. Noxor
wasn't in the habit of taking so much
water in his'n, and pretty soon he
began to gasp and kick. Before
morning Jones had him all right, and
went away feeling dead sure that
there was but one first-class doctor
in the world. A few days afterwari
he presented his BILL"
Whats this for?" says old Noxon
"For saving your life the othel
night says Jones.
swell. l didn't ask you to. I nevel
employed you, and IN not pay it
You'd nc business coming in her
and jambing your old pump down m,
neck. Brown is my family physician
and I'll not pay anybody %else," say
Noxon.
$50 away went Jones to Brown
Office, and tried to get him to induc
old Noxon to pay the bill.
"Jones,'' says Brown, looking GU
over the top of his ~spectacles, d"
never thought you vas a bad sort O
a fellow, but you done a very FOOLS
thing, and it serves you right to los
your bill. It's a good lesson to 20
and I hope You'll profit by it. Didn'
I say he was dead?"
eyes, says Jones.
"Didn't Smith say he was dead?'
"Yes," says Jones.
swell, that settled it! The ma
was dead, and you had no right t
say that he wasn't. When two old
+ experienced doctors, like Smith and
say a man is dead, it's unprofessions
and discourteous for a young man,
beginner in practice, to DISPUTE the
word. Wen forgive you this tim
because OF your youth and inexpt
!. ~rience, and will hush the matter u
= for you, but be very careful in th
future, and make no more such mi'
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