Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1911 — NO REST FOR THE DOCTOR [ARTICLE]

NO REST FOR THE DOCTOR

Mm of Medicine Must Always Be in Readiness for Alleviation of Suffering. “Take a day off/* said a friend of the doctor, seeing that the man of medicine looked, fagged. “What is the good?*’ was the reply. "Whenever I go off on a holiday some one U sure to be taken ill and call upon me for medical advice. I can’t get away from my profession." “Weil,’’ suggested the friend, “yon profit financially, that’s some consolation.” "That’s the way it strikes you,’’ grunted the doctor,- and continued: "The summer before last I thought I’d go away for a few days with my wife to a camp I know of tn the mountains. The morning we left town I got myself up to look as non-professional as possible, and we set out full of hope and as jolly as two schoolchildren. The express train on which we traveled had not much more than pulled oat of the station when I saw a porter enter our car and come running post haste down the aisle. When he got alongside of me he stopped and said: *' 'Dor’s a lady dyln’ in de nex’ cyar, sab! I see you is a doctor. Will you ptease some right along, sab?" “In the face of such an appeal what could I do? “It's your horrid goatee, Albert,' my wife whispered, as I rose and fol-

“The sick woman was in very bad shape, and it was two hours before I dared to leave her. As I bade her goodby she almost wept with gratitude —said she could never repay my kindness, etc., and asked what my fee was. I told her that there was no fee, but she insisted that there must be, so I named a small sum. Pulling a visiting card out of her satchel she requested that I would send my bill .to her in New York. I agreed to do

so and went back to my wife just as the train drew into our station.” “Have you seen your patient since?" asked the doctor’s friend. “I often see her riding in her auto mobile.” , “But did you send your bill?" the friend persisted. “Eh —oh, yes. I’ve been sending it regularly every month for the last year.”