Confirmed

I wasn't entirely sure when I asserted that old-time doctors charged according to what their patients could afford, until I recently saw the film, "A Man to Remember" (1938).  It is the story of a small-town doctor who averts a massive outbreak of infantile paralysis (polio) before Jonas Salk, by insisting the grasping businessmen cancel the county fair.  It was one of those aforementioned weasels who had earlier asked, "Are you going to charge me the rich man's price or the poor man's price?"  His fee was $100 (X32?), but the good doctor accepted $2 (X32?).  See.  .  . I was right.  Sometimes, even the undeserving got a break.