LOWER DOCTORS’ FEES
A MEDICO’S REPLY WILLING TO MEET NEEDY The suggestion that medical practitioners of New Zealand could very well reduce the fees they charged their patients, placed before the last meeting of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce by the Palmerston North branch of the Public Service Association, has been replied to by a leading member of the medical profession jji ; Wellington. He states:— “Medical fees in New Zealand, where the cost of living is relatively high, are lower for similar services than they arc in Great Britain or the United States. It is quite true that in Great Britain there are 2s 6d and 5s dispensaries, and it would be a nity if such were introduced in New Zealand, because the service given is necessarily perfunctory and in some cases, almost farcical. With the expensive public hospital system in New Zealand with large outpatient departments, it is »ibsurd to suggest that anyone, through poverty, cannot get medical attention. Every medical practitioner, if a reasonable case is stated to him, js willing to meet people in regard to remuneration. Medical fees have never risen in anything like the same proportion as has been granted by the Arbitration Court in New Zealand, and in the Public Service, and in other occupations.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 10
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