A. Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     for shipyard workers, in the North of Halifax, where one 
     
     could still see the effects of the Halifax Explosion. In fact, 
     
     the place where the two ships had collided was directly 
     
     opposite our three room apartment. We were close to 
     
     the harbour where the aircraft carrier Magnificent was 
     
     anchored. 
     
    

    
     About a month and a half after starting my Medical 
     
     , courses, I was called to the office where X-rays were 
     
     checked and to my great horror, he put up the X-ray on 
     
     the board and said, ”I am afraid Mr. MacDonald, your 
     
     career in medicine is over,” as there was a large TB cavity 
     
     present. After my discharge from the Army in the first year 
     
     of the war, I almost fainted — the shock was worse than 
     
     all the flak thrown up at me in World War 11. After he was 
     
     telling me how I would have to leave, as I was a danger of 
     
     spreading the disease, I was thinking ”How are my poor 
     
     wife and child going to survive?" and I had no money 
     
     for their support. Suddenly, a load greater than Hercules 
     
     ever carried - I looked down and there was Stewart Y. 
     
     MacDonald on the X—ray, and when I pointed that out to 
     
     him, after they had advised my landlady that I could have 
     
     spread the disease, did he apologize? No, he started giving 
     
     me a talk in how I had to be careful not to get X-rays and 
     
     histories mixed up. Then he got my X-ray and he said I 
     
     had a small TB scar but it was all healed. Five years later 
     
     I showed the same X—ray I found, in rooting through the 
     
     old files, put it before him on the examining table, as I was 
     
     the intern at the Sanatorium; I was always showing X-rays 
     
     before him. He said the X-ray was negative. I pointed the 
     
     small Gohn lesion to him and he said, ”You never report 
     
     these, as all they ever do is to make trouble.” 
     
    

    
     We had five classes; two were with the same 
     
     professor, who was always giving low marks and failing 
     
     students. He was the greatest menace to the teaching 
     
    
   
   
    
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