Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These opinions appear in the preface of a book entitled Doctor, Here's Your Hat (published last January*), by Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger of Chicago. On account of them ruddy, lusty, leonine Dr. Jerger was in trouble last week with the American Medical Association-which itself is in trouble with the Department of Justice on anti-trust charges...
...Doctor, Here's Your Hat, Dr. Jerger also tells that he was called out to a farmer's house one day on a confinement case, got into the wrong bedroom while the farmer was stabling his horse, palpated the abdomen of a sleeping schoolteacher by mistake...
...water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...
...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...
Hours later, Antoine sat down on the floor, rested his back against the wall. The little girl was still alive. The younger doctor was treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...