Excerpt from The World in 1931
Ox account of indifferent health, my physician ordered me to take an extended sea voyage. This peremptory command caused me some moments of perplexment. Had this celebrated medical man more thought for his own relief than for mine? Was he bent on getting rid of a chronic nuisance, one who could be relieved neither by the gentle art of cajolery nor by that now almost lost art of druggery?
My physician was what might be termed "popular". He was pre-eminently successful in that he always had a waiting list - one to be envied by those of his craft or more strictly speaking profession. The daily aggregation in his waiting-room consisted largely of the most profitable of all patients and at the same time the most exacting and troublesome - the well ones; for it ever is that Fear and Fancy are the twin branches upon which the doctor's golden dollars grow.
Let this be as it may, my physician's fees were as large as his conscience would dictate and his conscience was most generous if not elastic. Of course, he rendered some service to society without compensation - "For charity", as he observed.
In a moment of callous indifference for the feelings and sensibilities of another, I ventured to ask the doctor how he could reconcile some of his high fees.
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