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“hogging the work." I even had the Chief of Medicine come to my house requesting me to slow down, a fact which they are still trying to enforce. I am sure that it is not for the good of my health they are worried. Ifl got what

I considered a difficult medical case, I did not hesitate for a moment in calling in a Specialist. Some ofthem did not like to have their schedule interrupted, especially the Medi- cal Intemists. In my later years, I got to depend on them when I thought it was for the good ofthe patient.

The first complaint was about an examination I did on a young girl, with the nurse in the room. The complaint was that I refused to let her father to come into the examin- ing room. The next day or so I was called up to see the Ad- ministrator as he had a letter from her mother that I would not let her into the room when I examined her daughter. At the time ofthe examination, I did not know that the so- called father was her biological mother, and that she and her husband had had a sex change. I understand that she now called her biological father her aunt. I had found out about the transaction and did not have much trouble ex- plaining to the Administrator why I thought her mother was her father, and I never heard more ofthe complaint.

I had many interesting cases, along with many who could have been treated at home, especially for colds and minor complaints, although there were many, very many, sick cases taken to the Emergency Room. One evening I was not on call but for some reason I was passing through the Emergency Room, because the doctor on call had not arrived, and the young doctor there for the summer did not see fit to see an alcoholic patient who had been waiting for hours. The nurse told me that she thought that he should be seen in the near future and as I was the sucker who never refused a helping hand, I went to see him. He was very drunk, about four times over the amount considered at point

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