Medicine: Prepaid Doctoring

Three Milwaukee doctors last week went through the unpleasant experience of being ejected from their county organization, for a violation of professional ethics. Their sin: They took fees ($1 per month) from well people in return for which they promised to treat their illnesses if & when.

The American Medical Association has developed an acute case of nervous indigestion ever since depression knocked doctors off their economic feet. Few of the 200 and more schemes which doctors have invented to earn an honest dollar have sat well with A. M. A. None has proved more revolting to that potent national body than...

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