The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-27

isn't willing to pay. he isn't entitled
TO any Of the doctors store of know
ledge.
] do not refer now TO cases Of ex-
IRENE suffering or danger. In such
instances II is the call OF humanity
and al within hearing must answer
and you need not hesitate to use the
doctors brains or his medicine from
any consideration of him. lie wouldn't
want you to. No one answers to
the call of humanity more quickly or
more often than the doctor, lie gives
Of his knowledge generously and Of
ten of his means. A large percent
of his services are never paid for.
lie charges these accounts on his
books as Il matter of routine, but he
knows that many of them don't mean
money. He doesn't count them as
an asset-only as so many families
that are n little under obligation to
him. aud he serves them again and
again.
! Practice of medicine isn't a bust
ness. and as n rule the doctor isn't a
sharp business man. lie is too easy
He has had his mind so occupied will
mastering the details of his profes.
sion; SO full of subjects totally alooi
from business, that business educa.
ton has been crowded out. The mind
Is n good deal like a bucket of water.
You can fill it full, but n drop more
and 1t will run over. There are diff.
ferent sized buckets and there are
different sized brains. Therefore ii
is no discredit to the good doctor
that he is a bad financier.
This giving away and repeating the
doctors prescription is often the re-
suit Of thoughtlessuess; sometimes ig
%norance, but 1t is as rank a piece of
injustice as is Yer done by one in.
dividual TO another, and that other
his friend and counselor. Think of
it! Why you wouldn't give another
a dimes worth of yon neighbours corn
without his consent. You would
rather give a dollars worth of your
own. Then why give dollars worth
of the doctors stock in trade with.
out so much as "by-your-leave'? 1t
is n puzzeling sort of inconsistency
that can permit a person to give or
accept such a thing.
The person who is given a pre-
scription by the doctor has no right
TO II whatever. 1t belongs on the
druggists file-evidence that it was
properly written and properly filled,
and available TO the court In case
some untoward event brings il within
the courts jurisdiction. Neither have
You any right to require a copy from
the druggist. It's mission is ended
when it is stuck on the druggists
file and the medicine which ii was
the order for, is handed to you. 1t
is ridiculous To suppose that the
small sum you paid the doctor en-
''AiNS spA u hiuillu y VI year > OF
treatment. You couldn't get n
quack to treat you on those terms.
May doctors will not permit all
their prescriptions to be re-filled with
out their consent and those they
mark IN. r., mon repitur). which
means ii is not to be refilled. This
is right and just and it should be
applied 10 all, but the doctors do not
use this bar very often only to those
which it is not wise to continue. and
it is only the patient they are con
sidering, moi their own interests,
This bar should be more generally
used, The druggist is powerless to
act in the matter. In the absence of
instructions from the doctor he has
no right to decline to refill unless
the prescription contains something
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