CANCER OF THE BREAST
I think the action of the doctor in South London in charging the fees quoted by Dr. Todd-White is to be commended, and it is better that the fees should go into the pocket of a doctor rather than swell the receipts of one of his competing charities.
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market value for the attention received. Hence, why should they go to a general practitioner and pay more ? There is only one reason that I can see, and that is the delay in the ever crowded waiting-rooms before the patients' more or less urgent needs are attended to. Rather than wait, a few find it worth wbile to pay a " private " doctor a little more. I think the action of the doctor in South London in charging the fees quoted by Dr. Todd-White is to be commended, assuming that he had unscrupulous competition from medical charities to meet. It is better that the fees, small as they are, should go into the pocket of a doctor rather than swell the receipts of one of his competing charities. After all, 3d. or 4d. per head per consultation is better paid than club practice, and it has the further advantage that one need not turn oneself into a doormat, as many "clubbers" expect their doctor to do.-I am, etc.,