STRIKE OF GERMAN DOCTORS.
BERLIN, April 14. Leipzig is m the throes of a doctore' strike Hundreds of physicians are involved, and have the sympathy of their brother medicos throughout Germany. It came about this way. Ever since the employers' liability and compulsory insurance laws were passed, the sick funds have developed enormously. The usual arrangements were macle' by each sick fund for a medical sum to attend its members at a reduced nominal and inclusive fee. - The doctors noticed that as these funds grew their ordinary clients fell off, and nearly all joined one or other of the numerous sick funds. Moreover, these krankenkassen, or sick funds, kept down fees ruinously. Most of them worked out at seven pfennigs (seven-tenths of a penny) per case per day. A doctor often had. 100 patients m a day, and received exactly seven marks (or shillings). The physicians therefore started committees for thai' own protection. Then dissensions arose between the representatives of the sick funds and these committees, resulting m an actual strike on the part of the doctors. At present there is somewhaC of a deadlock, but m the end some compromise will probaibly be brought about.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9162, 3 June 1901, Page 1
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196STRIKE OF GERMAN DOCTORS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9162, 3 June 1901, Page 1
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