PEDIATRICS Vol. 62 No. 2 August 1978, pp. 264
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PROFESSIONAL REMUNERATION

E. Hackett

. . . To me it now seems a simple anthropological fact of our culture that ever wider obvious fee-chasing reduces our status and consequently our autonomy and liberty of action in real social terms. The remedy is simple enough, to receive more of our remuneration by the displaced-in-time device of salary or session payment or capitation grant in various forms. Now I know that it is argued by many that this could not increase our liberty but would reduce it by making us dependent on some potentially ill-disposed paymaster. There is no good evidence to support that view. One has only to look at the liberty of action and freedom from interference enjoyed by the judiciary, and also by academics, politicians and clergy, to realise that a salary is compatible with great professional freedom.