MEDICAL PRACTITIONER -BENEFITS
Sir,—l should like to add my experience of 26 .years ago as a lodge secretary. We found difficulty in obtaining a doctor to take over our;lodge. Some members were of the Opinion.that jhe doctors were too well paid considering that there were so in any., in r.tha. lodge contributing to the medical" fund, especially the single . members, who very rarely troubled /the doctors. As a secretary of seven years’ standing, ! proposed; that we should pool the medical fees ourselves and then pay , the doctors fbr actual attendance on our patients. This was immediately adopted and we thus were always.asa lodge financially .better off, the.; doctor, even agreeing to allow 25 per cent, off ;the charges made for visiting a_patient. This worked well for years. The doctors told me they preferred the independent feeling it conveyed and the fapt that they were ; being paid for actual,work done.—Yours, etc.,. EX-LODGE SECRETARY. June 18, 1941.
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