SPECIALIST IN CHRONIC DISEASES
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Thomas H. Jennings, M.D., Godfrey’s Corners, Ia.
Dear Doctor Jennings: Since the receipt of your letter relative to the case of Mr. Smith I have been called to —— for consultation in a serious case. I will be at the —— hotel on Thursday next but will be very busy, and do not think it safe to make any engagements, aside from the consultation, for that day. If you can arrange to meet me on Friday (the following day) between 10 and 11 a.m., I will remain over. I suggest this as it will afford us an opportunity of discussing Mr. Smith’s case to better advantage than it is possible to do by mail. There will, of course, be no fee attached to this service on my part.
Kindly let me know at once whether I may expect to have the pleasure of meeting you so that I may arrange my time accordingly.
Yours fraternally,
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Dr. Jennings is impressed by the compliment thus paid him by the eminent specialist. So are the dozen or more other physicians to whom Dr. Wilkinson writes, most of them hastening to make engagements to meet the specialist at varying hours.
If the correspondence has been entirely with the prospective patient, and no family physician has been enlisted as an intermediary, the “come on” letter is made to read differently. In cases of this kind the doctor would say:
G. H. WILKINSON, M.D.