DOCTORS' FEES
PAYMENT BY PATIENTS NO TROUBLE IN WELLINGTON (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 11. Wellington doctors who were interviewed to-day have not experienced any difficulty in the payment of fees by patients, and it was stated that there was no suggestion in Wellington of doctors boycotting patients who failed to meet their accounts. A message from New Plymouth stated that, doctors were alarmed because patients had ceased to pay their bills because of the Social Security Act. it was understood that several New Plymouth doctors might blacklist those patients and refuse to take them on their panels.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 10
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99DOCTORS' FEES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 10
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