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Third, no matter how much a doctor may do for one patient as compared to another, he gets a fixed annual fee for each. Thus, he earns the same fee for looking over a healthy youngster requinng no medical treatment at all as he does for an older person with many ailments or serious illness. A doctor with 2,000 patients will earn a little over $6,500 a year. This, it is easy tossee, stifles the initiative of doctors and helps undercut high medical standards. The doctor is forced to see as many patients as possible in order to earn a decent income. In some oases, a doctor will run patients through his office in as litble as 2 or 3 minhtes each!
Thus nationalized medicine in Britain, which on the surface had seemedto be going along smoothly enough to please the people, is threatening to come apart ait the seams. With doctors leaving and the workload becoming Continued on page twelve
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