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Article MEDICAL FEES—LIFE ASSURANCE . ← Page 4 of 4 Article THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. Page 1 of 3 →
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Medical Fees—Life Assurance .
before the world , as one the publication of which " may assist the profession in arriving at some uniformity of practice . " If the medical profession is required to adopt an uniformity of practice , differing as doctors do , they will no doubt be individually as honest and just as collectively as they are honourable . If the profession of " Life Assurance" be implied , and such is probable , it follows that , as parties to a compactthe A'ledical and Life Assurance professions should meet
, on equal terms . The opinion ofthe one is thesecurity of the other ; and however an individual practitioner may not care to forego his just and proper fees , such indifference ought not to be considered as influencing the members of a profession whose services , however highly appreciated , are but indifferently rewarded , and hitherto , in the case of Life Assurance , most shamefully disregarded . Mr . Keate ' s letter ,
unintentionally perhaps , will do service—it will pioneer the way to justice ; that gentleman being a surgeon of the highest eminence . Any legal objection to the payment of medical fees , is among those absurdities that require no comment . The publication of the case submitted to the late Sir AV . Follett would be very instructive . It was contemplated to have addressed you on the subject of medical fees , as preliminary to some statistical remarks thereon , in connection with Life Assurance , but Air . Keate ' s letter has anticipated this necessity .
A SEXAGENARIAN , retired from Medical Practice . The medical profession must feel vastly indebted to the '' Post Alagazine , " and the Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen , " but we may a tale unfold . "
The Institute Of Actuaries.
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES .
OUR readers will see in our pages a report of the proceedings which took place upon the establishment of the above Institute ; and as we are without any information upon the subject save that which is before the public , we deem it wise to abstain from any lengthened remarks upon an Institution , the principles and object of which are indeed developed , but the application of which is as yet undetermined . Some observations have , however , appeared in a literary periodical of character and influence , tending to stigmatise the infant Institute as a clique seeking
to become a close corporation , which perhaps warrant a few remarks . AA'e clo not pretend to be in the confidence of the Council , and shall not affect to be acquainted with their secret designs , if indeed they have any ; but our interest in the Institution leads us to hope that it will not mar its usefulness , diminish the confidence which should be reposed in it , and bring itself into public odium by running counter to the spirit of the age , which is opposed to every thing bearing even the semblance of a monopoly . We fully recognise the paramount import-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Medical Fees—Life Assurance .
before the world , as one the publication of which " may assist the profession in arriving at some uniformity of practice . " If the medical profession is required to adopt an uniformity of practice , differing as doctors do , they will no doubt be individually as honest and just as collectively as they are honourable . If the profession of " Life Assurance" be implied , and such is probable , it follows that , as parties to a compactthe A'ledical and Life Assurance professions should meet
, on equal terms . The opinion ofthe one is thesecurity of the other ; and however an individual practitioner may not care to forego his just and proper fees , such indifference ought not to be considered as influencing the members of a profession whose services , however highly appreciated , are but indifferently rewarded , and hitherto , in the case of Life Assurance , most shamefully disregarded . Mr . Keate ' s letter ,
unintentionally perhaps , will do service—it will pioneer the way to justice ; that gentleman being a surgeon of the highest eminence . Any legal objection to the payment of medical fees , is among those absurdities that require no comment . The publication of the case submitted to the late Sir AV . Follett would be very instructive . It was contemplated to have addressed you on the subject of medical fees , as preliminary to some statistical remarks thereon , in connection with Life Assurance , but Air . Keate ' s letter has anticipated this necessity .
A SEXAGENARIAN , retired from Medical Practice . The medical profession must feel vastly indebted to the '' Post Alagazine , " and the Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen , " but we may a tale unfold . "
The Institute Of Actuaries.
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES .
OUR readers will see in our pages a report of the proceedings which took place upon the establishment of the above Institute ; and as we are without any information upon the subject save that which is before the public , we deem it wise to abstain from any lengthened remarks upon an Institution , the principles and object of which are indeed developed , but the application of which is as yet undetermined . Some observations have , however , appeared in a literary periodical of character and influence , tending to stigmatise the infant Institute as a clique seeking
to become a close corporation , which perhaps warrant a few remarks . AA'e clo not pretend to be in the confidence of the Council , and shall not affect to be acquainted with their secret designs , if indeed they have any ; but our interest in the Institution leads us to hope that it will not mar its usefulness , diminish the confidence which should be reposed in it , and bring itself into public odium by running counter to the spirit of the age , which is opposed to every thing bearing even the semblance of a monopoly . We fully recognise the paramount import-