BIG MEDICAL FEES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 8

BIG MEDICAL FEES

Half a dozen doctors are nojr being paid £SOOO a year by the Admiralty. Private practice is not forbiddfji, but it must not interfere with %>fsciai duties. : * I ' " Lucky " Baldwin. the miilftjaaire mine-owner, got a bill from liis nudicai attedant for £20,000, and, judging by the money bo left behind him, it'wiula not mabo much difference to. his poeiet- \ money. .1 On on© occasion the late King Inward asked one of his medical attendants what a first-rate medical msii would make, and was told that £15,0(5 a year would hit the mark. But the King's informant added that a. big barrister would beat that bv £IO,OOO. \ It is 6n record' that for k journey io\ Petrograd to vaccinate the - Empress \ Catherine 11., the great Dr Dimsdale \ received £IO,OOO, an annuity of £SOO, ' and a Russian title. And much' more recently the Czar paid £15,000 to a Moscow doctor for two days' attendance. I>r Keys, an American doctor, went on board one of tho Vanderbilt yachts for a pleasure trip, and,'-incidentally, to look after the health bill. 1 His own bill totalled up to £12,G00. :r '" ? But the biggest medical fee on-"record ' v as paid to Dr Gale. the blind medical electrician, for a few weeks' successful treatment of a millionaire's leg. Ha got £50,000. It is said that Rockefeller has long had a standing offer out, of a million sterling, to the man who will provide Lim with a new digestive apparatus: That million has not been earned up io the moment of going to press. ;