Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Pailthorpe is tall. Mr. Reuben Mednikoff is small. Dr. Pailthorpe is the daughter of a stockbroker. Mr. Mednikoff is the son of a peasant. She is 48, he is 32; she a doctor, he a commercial artist. She has spent some time bushwhacking in New Zealand; he has spent much of his brushwielding in London. Both have bright eyes, great energy, and perfectly terrific subconscious minds. Fate threw them together at a party five years ago, and they have been working together ever since on the Cornwall coast. Last week the fruit of those years-65 of the goofiest...
Back at college Vag got a terrible shock. George and Sophia were sick, very sick. Vag realized it was all his fault and he tended them night and day. Finally, in desperation, he called in the doctor who treated George for twenty dollars. The next day the crisis came and George passed it safely...
...meantime Sophia was sinking. Vag got the doctor again and almost all night they worked over Sophia...
...Crisis came at 9:15 in the morning and at the last minute Vag was left alone with Sophia to save her. He tried to remember the doctor's instructions but they all rattled around in his head with a great racket and he could only think that it was too late. She died at 12:15. Vag knew it was murder, but it is a secret he keeps locked in his heart...
...many foreign systems of health insurance, Dr. Sigerist is critical. For example the English system, under which a doctor receives about $2.25 a year to take care of each insured patient has led to a cheap type of bottle practice, and for the premium he pays, the insured patient receives only general medical care...