PROFESSIONAL REMUNERATION. T3
the
EDITOit OP TIIE
"INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
Sir,?Will you please insert the following queries, as I believe answers to them would be generally acceptable, not only I would ask ari answer to the service, but to civilians also. from some orticer who lias held civil stations in the NorthWestern Provinces, as well as in Bengal, as 1 believe the custom is different. I. for
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What is the remuneration a Civil Surgeon should year's attendance on a civilian's wife and family ?
get
II. If a confinement takes place during the yenr, is it included iu the sum for the year's attendance, or is it an extra fee ? III. If a civilian, having his wife and family with him, should not employ the civil surgeon during the year, is it customary, nevertheless, to give the usual lee ?
My answers to the questions would be :?I. The usual fee is week's salary of the donor for a year's attendance ; that is, a mun on lis. 1,000 a month should give lis. 250. II. Attendance durii g confinement is an extra, and should be paid for in excess of the week's pay. III. A civilian should pay the usual fee, whether ho requires attendance or not. Oil this latter point I am doubtful, as I have been in a station where the judge had his wife who never required my attendance, and be sent me no fee, which I thought shabby. Again, I am in a station where the magistrate sent me a very handsome fee, although, with the exception of vaccinating his child, I did not attend. This fee I returned,and If you can authoritatively answer these was told I was a fool ! questions in a note to this letter, I would be much obliged ; if not, I would seek the expression of the opinion held by Civil Burgeons, and the general custom.
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Yours
faithfully,
CIVIL SURGEON'.
[Tliere
has
is
no
absolute rule
as
to the scale of fees -which
a
Civil
Surgeon
right to expect; and, for many reasons, it is well it should be correspondent is right, however, in saying that it is customary for civilians in ihe N. AV. Provinces to give a week's pay for a year a professional attendance, and this exclusive of remuneration for an accouchement. If attendance is more than usualiy irequent, a larger fee is generally yiven. Again, with regard to the question of giving and taking a fee when no attendance has been required, this must clearly depend upon the fact of a previous agreement on the matter, or simply on the liberality of the civilian. There can be no compulsion in the matter. We m?y add_ two remarks on this subject:]^. If a civil officer is particularly confident in the professional qualifications of a civil sui-geon, it is not improbable that he may oiler a considerably larger remuneration than that nbovo indicated; in which case the civil surgeon would, as a rule, do well to accept the proferred fee, whatever might be its amount. 2ndly. We take it for granted that all civil surgeons clearly understand that it is their duly to attend civilians themselves, without any thought of remuneration, and that it is only for attendance on the wives and families of civil officer* that fee3 can ever be expected.]?Ed., I. If.
the
EDITOit OP TIIE
"INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
Sir,?Will you please insert the following queries, as I believe answers to them would be generally acceptable, not only I would ask ari answer to the service, but to civilians also. from some orticer who lias held civil stations in the NorthWestern Provinces, as well as in Bengal, as 1 believe the custom is different. I. for
a
What is the remuneration a Civil Surgeon should year's attendance on a civilian's wife and family ?
get
II. If a confinement takes place during the yenr, is it included iu the sum for the year's attendance, or is it an extra fee ? III. If a civilian, having his wife and family with him, should not employ the civil surgeon during the year, is it customary, nevertheless, to give the usual lee ?
My answers to the questions would be :?I. The usual fee is week's salary of the donor for a year's attendance ; that is, a mun on lis. 1,000 a month should give lis. 250. II. Attendance durii g confinement is an extra, and should be paid for in excess of the week's pay. III. A civilian should pay the usual fee, whether ho requires attendance or not. Oil this latter point I am doubtful, as I have been in a station where the judge had his wife who never required my attendance, and be sent me no fee, which I thought shabby. Again, I am in a station where the magistrate sent me a very handsome fee, although, with the exception of vaccinating his child, I did not attend. This fee I returned,and If you can authoritatively answer these was told I was a fool ! questions in a note to this letter, I would be much obliged ; if not, I would seek the expression of the opinion held by Civil Burgeons, and the general custom.
a
Yours
faithfully,
CIVIL SURGEON'.
[Tliere
has
is
no
absolute rule
as
to the scale of fees -which
a
Civil
Surgeon
right to expect; and, for many reasons, it is well it should be correspondent is right, however, in saying that it is customary for civilians in ihe N. AV. Provinces to give a week's pay for a year a professional attendance, and this exclusive of remuneration for an accouchement. If attendance is more than usualiy irequent, a larger fee is generally yiven. Again, with regard to the question of giving and taking a fee when no attendance has been required, this must clearly depend upon the fact of a previous agreement on the matter, or simply on the liberality of the civilian. There can be no compulsion in the matter. We m?y add_ two remarks on this subject:]^. If a civil officer is particularly confident in the professional qualifications of a civil sui-geon, it is not improbable that he may oiler a considerably larger remuneration than that nbovo indicated; in which case the civil surgeon would, as a rule, do well to accept the proferred fee, whatever might be its amount. 2ndly. We take it for granted that all civil surgeons clearly understand that it is their duly to attend civilians themselves, without any thought of remuneration, and that it is only for attendance on the wives and families of civil officer* that fee3 can ever be expected.]?Ed., I. If.
