PAY THE DOCTOR.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2031, 8 July 1875, Page 3

PAY THE DOCTOR.

To the Edrtoi- of the Evening Star." ; C: :"Sib,4--Ancieut scars do bleed afregb in connection witli Hospital matters.; Nay, the wounds "of some persons seeni^ to be like the damned leprosy, and do never heal. Of such a .kind were ;the wounds . inflicted' on t)r. Lethbridge, Mr Tyler and the worst part of the former gentlemens's support2rs. Because, forsooth, Dr Lethbridge was not re-elected to the .office-.of Hospital Surgeon—whoever supposed be would be ?—ho has sent a lawyer's letter ■ to^the-Committee demanding .payment of tbat which }he was formerly refused, and the lawyer, who, of course, is no other than the unamiable arid misguidedKE.K;T., includedhis little billin the „ amount claimed. Happy pair, or rather harrassing malcontents, what an infinitely foolish man one of them is. The doctor after all has to depend for existence oi his ability to dose people and saw bones ; and he has very probably made enemies of persons whose good opinion he could not afford to lose, by an act of petty meanness, and a display of rancour and ill feeling that Te^ould not have supposed even !Dr''"LT}tb.bridgo capable. The committee did right not to dispute the point with the doctor, who has not come off as. successfully as might be, since he has been compelled to take with his miserable fee, the adverse opinions of most of,the conrarittec<; and he must see thai such' a state of things is anything Tbu,t advantageous to him. • If ho docs not see itj his'is'a melancholy case of purblindness., ,'' - Patient.