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Ride on the Escalator. Actually, few British doctors now make less money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...
...Morris Gray had just shelled out a very hefty sum of money for only twenty minutes of chit-chat and poetry, something new for him. Marianne Moore once wrote of poetry: "There are things more important beyond all this fiddle." And everyone there seemed pleased, amused, and charmed with Marianne...
...citizens-of-stature-deserving-high-executive-positions were included in the new Truman Cabinet, that body would have to hold its meetings in the waiting-room at Grand Central Station. This might not help governmental efficiency, but it would certainly give wider scope to the purveyors of political chit-chat...
...these files, Sherwood found the notes that Harry used to pass to F.D.R. and which sometimes changed the course of history (one chit persuaded F.D.R. to make the unfortunate reparations concessions at Yalta). And here was F.D.R.'s surprising promise, as recorded by Hopkins, to back Hopkins for the presidency...
Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...