SIR,—" Toad, M.D.," in your issue of July 9th, asks,
" Does ' Layman' realise how much of their income some doctors have to pay as interest on borrowed money to buy practices? " &c.. Supporters of the Beveridge Scheme do not consider it right that doctors should have to buy practices, particularly those containing a large panel section. Is it proper that the right to treat peoples' sickness should be a marketable
security? The burden " Toad, M.D." refers to should not be placed upon medical prictitioners, and the scale of prospective payments by the State should be prohibited. To secure his appointment has an elementary school master to purchase a right to receive the income from the existing holder of the mastership? Why should a doctor have to pay for the right to treat panel as well as private patients?—Yours, &c.,
" LANC.ASTIHAN
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