There is one thing I heard in medical school in France that, if anyone ever heard in America, well, they have long since forgotten it.

He was a little country doctor who came in from the country. He was one of the kind, he told us, that was the “backbone” of French medicine.

He taught us to keep the financial records of our (general) practices in a bound school-notebook. To enter each receipt for service on a separate line, and to cross out entries with a single line made horizontally with a ruler, leaving the original (erroneous) entry legible, so that we remained always above reproach. Read more on Science And Reality…