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Points from Letters: Dental Anaesthetic Fees

1966; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 5501 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.1.5501.1485-f

0959-8138

M. E. Samrah,

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here-which incidentally is shared by the *B.B.C.-that intelligent people stop up until midnight every night of the week.Surely 11 p.m. would be an average time for retirement, and many would agree that to be called just afterwards was as bad as being woken later on in the night.Incidentally, why is no notice taken of the times a doctor is called out of bed into his surgery in the early hours ?Above all, if sufficiently paid over- all, do we require anything more to induce us to get up at night, or anything to induce the patients to wait until after midnight to call us ?Our representatives certainly should not have agreed to debarring us from payment for ancillary help by our wives.There are numerous instances where wives are doing work of amount and quality that a secretary could not possibly tackle, even where one could be found to attempt it.Obviously there should be an onus upon the doctor to establish the amount of ancillary help he actually gets in N.H.S. work from anyone on his payroll; but it's simply not anybody's business what his relationship with the girl is out of hours.Surely if he is married to her, so much the better.No recognition of the work of some doctors' wives in a payment that was made equally to all doctors could possibly be reasonable or just.-Iam, etc.,