General Acceptation of the Term "Doctor"

Doctors differ, and how

How Youth is selected for the Medical Profession.

Description of Medical Pupil

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Priests of the Sacred Fire of Life, what?

Abuse of the Carriage

Is it conducive to a Patient's Interest that his Doctor be

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A Patient at the Mercy of his Doctor

Public's Notion of paying Medical Men .

Intermeddling with the Doctor's Vocation by the Public

by the Clergy

Drug-swallowing encouraged by Legitimate Practitioners

Experience and Inexperience compared

Jealousy the worst Trait in the Doctor's Character

Palmer's Defence prompted by Jealousy

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Why are Town Doctors thought so much more of than

Country Doctors?

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How Fame and Fortune are made in London

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How do you select a Doctor?

Success in Practice no Indication of Ability

Ability often stands in the way of Success

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Criminal to employ Doctors without proper Inquiry

Wrong to admit Men to practise without suitable Quali-

fication

Necessity of raising the Status of the Profession

Sketch of Suburban Village

Doctors and their Brass Plates

How Doctors are selected in the Suburban and Country

Villages

The Doctors' Registers

How Doctors should be selected, a Question of Difficulty

The greatest London Celebrities have been Provincials

Not just to condemn all for one

The Influence which the Public exert over the Profession

prejudicial to its Interests

Origin of Popular Celebrities

In our large Hospitals throughout the Country, are the

Right Men in the Right Places?

The bad Feeling between Doctors mainly dependent upon

unjust and injudicious Selections

How Doctors are selected, and why

Bad Influence of thoughtless Recommendations upon the

Profession

How to select a Medical Man

Classification of Doctors

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Regularly but indifferently-qualified General Practitioner

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Rather better-informed General Practitioner

General Practitioner who attends the better description of

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Value of the Initial Letters "M.D."

"Who shall decide when Doctors disagree?

Description of Doctor's Wife

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"No Reputation, no Patients"

Obstructions to getting into Practice often the Induce-

ment to what is termed Unprofessional Conduct

Description of a Parish Election

Specialists-What are they?

Homœopathy

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"Two Heads better than One" very questionable .

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Variety and Distribution of Doctors permit abundant

Choice

Aphorisms deduced from the preceding Pages

Disagreeables of commencing Practice-a Stranger among
Strange Faces

Note regarding the Claims of Mr. Martin of Reigate, and
Mr. Daniell of Newport Pagnell, as Co-founders of
the Royal Medical Benevolent College
Note on the difference between Professional and Popular

Celebrities

Note on the "Lancet" and its past Services

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