REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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problem,<br />
DOCTORS AND LAWYERS 263<br />
and that is<br />
what we did when we took<br />
to them the car with the wire off the coil. That is<br />
what we did with the radio and its loose tube and<br />
the typewriter with its unhooked carriage or<br />
loosened platen, and the watch with its<br />
screw.<br />
loosened<br />
But you can hardly do that in the medical<br />
field. There is too much legitimate room for<br />
differing interpretations<br />
of human ailments and<br />
different diagnoses and prescriptions.<br />
It is not<br />
easy to find an absolute for the investigators to<br />
fall back on. Suppose I go to ten doctors and say<br />
that I have a pain in my stomach ;<br />
I could not<br />
blame the ten for ten different prescriptions.<br />
Maybe, even if I have no stomach pain, I do need<br />
the rest or the laxative or the changed diet they<br />
might invariably prescribe. There might emerge<br />
interesting facts as to the fees charged, but they<br />
are facts which we all know now.<br />
Four years ago Riis touched on the medical<br />
field in an investigation of optometry throughout<br />
the United States. It happened that a member of<br />
and in her<br />
his family had an ulcer on the eye,<br />
anxiety and trouble she was consulting medical<br />
eye specialists up<br />
and down the East coast. At
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