Master hahnemann advise to,
How much fees we can collect from patients,?
Don't collect fixed fees from all patients..
Know the economy of the patients well...
Collect well from rich, please show mercy to poorer and collect minimum or nil.
Compiled by doctorsivakumaran
Right of the physician to be well paid
"Dear Friend and Colleague,
Your kind visit on the 10th of April must, on account of its shortness, be regarded more as a compliment to me than as a full visit.
" Doubtless such a title as that of medical counselor has now this advantage, that it enables the physician to obtain better fees ; and it is particularly useful to the Homoeopath, as it serves to humiliate the enemies of his art ; but even were it not so, it is advisable for the plain Homoeopathic doctor to attach so much value to his infinitely better mode of treatment that even without any title he should demand larger fees ; at all events he should make patients affected with chronic diseases pay (beforehand) a monthly honorarium, and take from poorer persons at each consultation (and dispensing of medicines) some payment (were it only a few pence, he should take payment at each visit).
" In this way only is it possible for the medical man never to go unremunerated, and it keeps him a good humor when he gets ready money for his trouble.
Even these small fees, if they are paid at every visit and never neglected, accumulate unobservedly to a considerable sum, and the patient who pays every time scarcely misses them from his purse, because he only parts with them gradually ; and when he is cured or leaves off before he ought to, we are done with him ; he has no claim on us nor we on him, and he takes leave of us, if not with contentment and gratitude, at all events without unwillingness, the sums he has gradually parted with are forgotten by him, and the doctor has what was justly his, and the money collects in the doctor's purse without any regret on the part of the patient.
" On the other hand, how disagreeable is it for the physician who has to send in his account at the last when the patient has quite forgotten his gradual recovery and the great trouble the doctor has had, ut fieri solet.
" Since I have commenced my successful mode of treatment, I have never sent in a demand after the treatment was over, but always done as above stated. Whenever the payment at each visit of the poorer classes, and the monthly payments of the richer ones, shall be generally introduced, and patients not know any other method of payment, then every one will bring his money with him as a matter of course, or will send it every month by the post, and then business will go on without grumbling.
" If the doctor himself is a good economist he may, if he is a skillful Homoeopathist, be able to earn and lay by something.
"When Gross was here last I put him up to this plan, and he cannot think enough of the good effect it has had on his practice during the last half year ; he has become quite another man.
"I could convince you of all this much more effectually by word of mouth. He who does not know how to take payment for the assistance he dispenses is unable to form a proper estimation of himself and of his art.
" In his last letter written a few days ago Stapfdenies having got from you the article, 'On Natural Labor.'
This varians lectio no doubt is owing to the circumstance that he had forgotten to read it and seeks to excuse himself. I should like to have it again, for others wish to see it. If you are writing to him, beg him to mention in the Archiv with especial commendation the, exemption of the Brunswick Homoeopathists from the necessity of prescribing from the apothecary's shop - as he told Gross of Juter
bogk - in order to induce others to follow this example. Farewell till we meet again, which I trust will be soon, and believe me,
"Yours most sincerely,
" Sam. Hahnemann
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