In England

An English country doctor complained thus to the London Daily Express of a brazenness such as every U. S. physician has encountered: "Often while I drive to or from a case I happen to come to the scene of a road accident in which frequently someone is more or less injured. Naturally, being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended has responded to my request for the payment of a fee for services rendered; nor, to my knowledge, has any hospital to which I have sent them received a penny. Yet I am sure the majority of these persons have received compensation from insurance companies for injuries received. A month ago I attended a man by the roadside and spent an hour with him and sent him off carrying my best bandages. He now writes to me: 'I did not call you. It was a policeman. Get your fee from the police.' . . ."