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Albert V. Harmon

A physician who wrote bluntly about the business side of medical practice, he is best known for a 1911 guide aimed at helping doctors value their work and manage their practices more effectively. His surviving public record is sparse, but his book offers a revealing glimpse into early 20th-century professional life.

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Large Fees and How to Get Them: A book for the private use of physicians

Large Fees and How to Get Them: A book for the private use of physicians

by Albert V. Harmon

About the author

Albert V. Harmon, M.D., is known today mainly through Large Fees and How to Get Them: A Book for the Private Use of Physicians, published in 1911. The book was written for doctors and focuses less on clinical medicine than on the practical realities of earning a living in private practice.

In it, Harmon argues that many physicians undervalued their services and approached medicine without enough business discipline. That makes his work an interesting period piece: part advice manual, part window into how doctors thought about professional success, ethics, and financial survival in the early 1900s.

Beyond that book, easily confirmed biographical details about Harmon are limited in the sources available here. Even so, his writing has lasted long enough to be preserved by major public-domain archives, giving modern readers a small but vivid connection to a very specific corner of medical and publishing history.