MEDICAL DEFENCE.
TO the editor op the press. gj B( —The writer who signs himself „Struggling Tinemith" is possibly not •«_re that the work of the honorary staff at the Hospital is done gratuitously. Mis.norehension on this point seems, in fact, to be the rule rather than the exception in Chrittchurch. If the " Struggling Tinsmith " had given op part of his time and skill every week for » year in voluntary work for a public invitation, and if this work was soundand sue ctuful, would he nob be justified in protest_t against its disparagement ? gome of the doctors nere may have "read » chuckle" (when they thought of _jOJr numerous unpaid fees) the self-con-__l_tory w words, "We honest tradesmen, Jo-r "chaps, have to pay up—not that we S_dgß it"(!).—Yours, &c, grn 8 A. B. Boyd, M.B. 101 Montreal street, December 6th.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9283, 7 December 1895, Page 9
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