CHAPTER VI.

RECEPTION OF OFFICE PATIENTS. Attractive 93 Quarters the First Essential—How to Select and Furnish Rooms—Reception of Strangers on Arrival—Separation of Callers—Reception Room Attendant an Important Factor—The Kind that Wins—Hints on Treatment of Callers—Recourse to Correspondence File Vitally Essential—How Letters Should Be Kept in Order to Get the Necessary Information Speedily—Letters Frequently Give Clues as to the Writer’s Business Calling and Financial Responsibility—Object in Making Callers Wait Before Physician Receives Them—How the Reception Room Attendant May Become a Valuable Ally—Stenographers Should Be Kept Out of Sight