Medicine: Beer Kegs

Many a doctor will tell you that his calling is a hard one, but at least he can say that he is his own man. He can determine the size and nature of his practice, fix the amount of his fees, take time off for a fishing trip whenever he can afford to (and the state of his patients permits). He dreads the phrases "state medicine," "group medicine," "collective medicine," as devilish harbingers of a day when he will be a mere salaried employe, taking the jobs and patients he is told to.

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