Abstract
—A correspondent at Charleston, Mo., requests an answer to the two following questions through the pages of theJournal: 1st. "Is it professional for a physician to propose to the authorities of a city or county to do the pauper practice of such city or county for a period of one year for a stated amount? " 2d. " If a physician had a contract of the kind just mentioned, would it be ethical for another to propose to the authorities for a sum less than the one having it, he knowing what the other was receiving for said work? ' ' While the National Code of Ethics contains no direct statement or rule regarding what has been called " contract practice," or offering to attend the sick poor of a city or county for a specified sum, the National Association has several times taken such action as would answer both the above questions in
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