The Nevada County picayune., 1918-09-12
NOTICE.


 laity, as to the fees charged for the doctors services. The doctors of the county themselves have not had thorough understanding as to the eX- act amount they should charge for their services When one doctor more or less there is reason for the people to think that the doctor charg ing the most is unfair.
 In order to arrive at some definite con- clusions, so every one will thoroughly understand the slight advance in our prices, we take this method of explain ing the schedule of our minimum charges. We are practicing medicine today for the same price that We were when flour was $4.5O per barrel and everything in proportion. We have hesitated to advance prices because there always is come misunderstand- ing when prices are changed in any thing, but we simply cannot make ends meet and do our patients justice as we did when our living and operating expenses were les than half what they are today.
 When people stop and think that if our ears get out of repair and we are forced to call upon the service car tnE lS n charged equally as much and some times more than what we get for the call They can readily see that we deserve more money for our work Our mode of conveyance has changed from the horse and saddle, which cost less than S1OOOO purchase price and a s1O.OO per month upkeep, to the au- tomobile, ranging in purchase price from $7JOOO on up with an average monthly upkeep of from $5O.W to- $1OOOO, and our prices are the same. When We compare the difference in the price of drugs, doctors equipment, labor, and other things of today and
  eration the fact that garage men, who never spent dollar learning thelr trade, charge from $1 LOO to $1 per hour for their work: corn advancing from 50c to $2.00; cotton from 4e to Be; cotton chopping from 5Oc to $2.0o per day peaches from 5Oc to $1 ,5o per bushel. all coming within a period of hve years. can we do other than ad- vance; We are forced to neglect something somewhere. either office necessities, the giving our patients the time and attention they naturally deserve, cutting calls of any distance from home or something.
 We take the entire blame upon our selves for not having made this little advance long before now. It is not necessary to enter into details fur ther than to state that 1t takes high school education, two years of college work and five years in a medical col lege. Eleven years in all. and the ex- penditure of from s2o0os6o on up be- fore a young man can begin the prac-a tice of medicine. One doctor prac- ticing medicine in Prescott was called to see the son of a farmer, whose mule was also sick The farmer called the Veterinary surgeon the same time he called the doctor to see his son. When hal Gntc attending their cases the farmer asked for their respective bills and needless to say the Nj. D. received $25O for his share, while the " & walked away with $500. Again can we be blamed for asking for the following prices which will be in effect from this date. Office consultations with pre-
 scriptions sl" Office consultations and dress
 ing small wounds. loo Day calls in city limits 200 Night calls in city limits-------- 2n Telephone calls and prescriptions .@ Obstetric fees tcoming with
  Same out of the bounds of our
 practice with $1 per mile ad-
 ditiOnal
 For each mile from the city limits will be $1 GO per mile one way or call five miles from town $500. Consulta- ton visits s1O.OO and s5OO for each subsequent visit.
 Signed Doctors c. W. Brandon, Rosston Thos. l. Mendenhall, Ross ton Chas F. Nelms, Laneburg; j. Fl. Sutton. Sutton: A. s. Buchanan, Pres colt; $. J .Hesterly, Prescott; W. W. Rice, Prescott; G. A. Buchanan, Pres colt; $. R. Gee. Prescott: A. A. Reed CT, Prescott; J, F., Cox, Emmet; K. l.. Hudspeth, Emmet: j. C. Tompkins,