Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Politics

    Discusses a report in the Swiss Times of the strike by Arcadian physicians demanding higher fees and the suggestion that patients might respond with a strike of their own. Thinks that medical practitioners in England would be justified in staging a strike given their 'ridiculously low wages', which would also legitimate the formation of a professional union. Suggests that medical practitioners could stage their strike much less aggressively than members of other trades' unions and without 'filching away their physic, stethoscopes, and surgical instruments'.