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supervision over the medical care, but there's no doubt about the fact that if a patient was insured by a good company and was injured in a place where he could get to a good hospital or good medical attention immediately, he got the very best that was available.

The doctors were paid the proper fee for their work in a compensation case, as it's proper that they should be. Another bone of contention was that they didn't like us to fix the fees, but that it was our duty to fix the fees. The law says that the doctor should be paid a fee commensurate with that which would be charged for a person in the same circumstances in a private capacity. John Jones with a broken leg in the hospital was charged just what J. P. Morgan would have been charged, or what his brother would have been charged had he been a private case and taken to the hospital. That used to give the doctors a pain because they'd given their best service. This rich insurance company was paying and they thought they ought to be paid too. However, those things we managed to overcome.

Not only in the medical end, but with regard to the referees in these cases, I found a practise going on which, while I never found anything wrong about it, was most repugnant. It had become the custom for the insurance





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