Word: anesthetists
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...confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist) set out soon after 2 a.m. to evacuate the hospital's nurses and patients...
...with which he tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other characters from the hospital scene reappear on the ship: the gentle, inefficient nurse, as Arcularis' first serious love; the anesthetist as a violinist; the house surgeon as a minister. There is a free field for inference and speculation...
...Anesthetist: He's ready now, Doctor...
...Anesthetist: Still ninety...
...Anesthetist: Fifty-eight, fiftysix, fifty-four...