By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     He wanted to know how I knew and I said, ”I read it 
     
    

    
     in Merck’s Manual." He just gave me a tough look. He 
     
     delivered the baby in one minute, did a hysterectomy in 
     
     eight minutes and the Surgeon removed her spleen. Then 
     
     my work started. I had to check her platelet count every 
     
     15 minutes for 24 hours, as well as doing my other work. 
     
     The elevators could not be depended on, and I often had 
     
     to run up the stairs from as low down as the fourth to the 
     
     eleventh. No thought of giving me time off for sleep the 
     
     next day. 
     
    

    
     I was in the Gynecological service when we lost our 
     
     son, Alan, who lived one day after he was born. That was 
     
     a hard shock on me and my wife. I had to arrange to take 
     
     him home to Prince Edward Island for the burial service in 
     
     Little Sands. 
     
    

    
     The next rotation was in medicine. There were 
     
     many cases similar to those that I had to diagnose years 
     
     later. 
     
    

    
     I well recall the night the Dean of Medicine, Dr. 
     
     Holland took a heart attack. I was in another department 
     
     and I recall saying ”I would like to be taking his history.” 
     
     He always called for several pages of history, and expected 
     
     us to ask the most embarrassing questions. Two weeks I 
     
     was on the medical service and he said, ”Mac, no one has 
     
     ever taken my history,” so I had the chore of getting it. He 
     
     was feeling better and used to ask me many questions. One 
     
     day he asked me, “What’re you doing tonight?” and I said, 
     
     ”Studying.” He said, ”Put in your time attending patients; 
     
     ifI was going to fail you, you would have been out long 
     
     ago.” This was rather encouraging. I used to have to go to 
     
     his room each morning to get blood from him. He insisted 
     
     that I use a small needle. One night I was called to see him. 
     
     When I entered the room, he said, ”Why are you not in 
     
     bed?” I said, ”They called me” and this meant a long 
     
    
   
   
    
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