The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-13

a short While the young man woke
up to the realization that he was get
| ting new case on an average of once
a week or whereabouts. And with all
he was remarkably successful, sur
passing his fOndest hopes and most ar
dent prayers; so that before the first
year was over he was in possession of
steady practice and an income that
many a good general practitioner Of
years standing would have enyied had
he been aware of its size.
This was ten years ago; decade of
specializing has made the doctor indie
pendently rich.
Still Another Successful Bluff.
Let another doctor who started his
subsequent successful career with a
bluff tell in his own words why and
how he did it:
when I was getting my hospital
training I continually heard young
physicians with whom 1 was thrown
from time to time complaining that
they were handicapped in their prac-
tice by the old, deep-rooted and wide
spread prejudice existing against I'M
married practitioners.
Now, down east there was little
girl who had pledged her love to me
before 1 had gone to the city. AS soon
as I was through at the hospital /
went to her and asked her to marry
me at once and not to wait until
had got started in my practice; and
the chief reason 1 advanced for such
action was that as my wife she would
enable me to build up a practice much
sooner than I could hope to do alone.
"She saw the point at once, sensible
little girl that she has always been,
and, nothing daunted by the fact that
I had a very slim pocketbook and no
sign out as yet. she trustingly became
my wife
"Our honeymoon was spent in Sc
lecting a locality for my Office in New
York. We decided that, as we had
started out to overcome prejudjces. It
would be wise not to overlook the fact
that an air of prosperity is of mater
ial benefit to a physician; so we took
a big four-story and basement brown
stone front house in a good residential
section, laid out a large share of our
pocketbook's contents for two months
rent, fitted UP the offices attractiVely,
got the simplest of furnishings for a
solitary bedroom and the dining room,
hung lace curtains at every window
in the house. and then, with the great
est portion of it bare and untenanted,
and with just a little more than $500
in cash to our name. started on our
| periIous experimental journey.
but we won out; and it was our
outward air of prosperity, though in
wardly we were as poor as church
mice that brought us patients, while
other physicians who had taken
though of their slender resources and
! esta blished themselves accordingly,
were all but starving at the end OF
their first year for lack of patients
In less than half that time we had put
our anxious days and sleepless nights
/ behind US, and at the end of that per-
I iod were able to fit up a coy sitting
I room and a guest room. besides
A Success and a Failure.
/ Sometimes the young physician who
aims too high makes a miserable mess
/ of it. while his brother who starts out
modestly wins out. For this is the
way of the wOrld-often the inexplic-
able way
Smith, when he left college, went to
a section of Pittsburg populated by
Woodworking Wage-earning Germans.
Just about the time that he was gain
/ ing recognition he got an idea that
he would make a decided hit in the
fashionable east end, and began look
/ ing about for what he considered a
suitable location.
While he was thus engaged, Jones,
fresh from a hospital, began casting
about for an opening, and incidentally
learned that Smith was DESTROYS of
moving. s. He went to the latter, and
after looking over the field offered to
/ take the lease of the house of his
/ hands and pay him a couple of hun
/ dred dollars to boot. Smith eager1s
Rnatehed at the o6ers and soon put