Doctor charges patients $5 for entire visit

In this Oct. 30, 2012 photo, patient Joe Logsdon holds $5 in his hand to pay for his office visit as Dr. Russell Dohner, right, walks past in Rushville, Ill. When Dohner started practicing medicine in Rushville in 1955, he charged $2, the going rate around town for an office visit but has since raised it to $5.

In this Oct. 30, 2012 photo, receptionist Edith Moore, right, holds up her hand to refuse $5 from patient Joe Logsdon, center, for his office visit as Dr. Russell Dohner, left, walks to his next waiting patient in Rushville, Ill. Dohner decided there would be no charge for Logsdon's visit since Logsdon only came in to have the doctor look at cholesterol test results.

In this Oct. 30, 2012 photo, Dr. Russell Dohner, right, talks with patient Joe Logsdon about his high cholesterol in Rushville, Ill. Patients line up early outside his office just off the town square, waiting quietly for the doctor to arrive, as he has done for nearly 60 years.

In this Oct. 30, 2012, photo, Dr. Russell Dohner makes a phone call in his office in Rushville, Ill. Even when the medical profession changed around him, he was always on call, ready to drop everything for a patient who might need him.

In this Oct. 30, 2012, photo, Dr. Russell Dohner looks over paper records between seeing patients in Rushville, Ill. His office has no fax machines, computers or other forms of modern technology. Medical records are kept on hand-written index cards, stuffed into row upon row of filing cabinets.

In this Oct. 30, 2012, photo, Dr. Russell Dohner wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Rushville, Ill.

In this Oct. 30, 2012 photo, Dr. Russell Dohner, right, talks with nurse Rose Busby about a patient's prescription in Rushville, Ill. In an era of rising health care costs, the 87-year-old doctor only charges patients $5 per office visit and doesn't take insurance saying it isn't worth the bother.