Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1911 — NO REST FOR THE DOCTOR [ARTICLE]

NO REST FOR THE DOCTOR

Man of Medicine Must Always Be in Readiness for Alleviation of Suffering. 'Take a day off/* said a triend ot the doctor, seeing that the man of medicine looked tagged. "What is the good?” was the reply. “Whenever 1 go off on a holiday some one la sure to be taken ill and call upon me for medical advice. I can’t get away from my profession.” “Well,” suggested the friend, “you 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 In the mountains. The morning we left town I got myself up to look as non-professional aa 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 out of the station when I saw a porter enter our car and come running post haste down the aisle. When he get sjpDgside of me he stopped and - V— ± " 'Dar's a lady dyin’ In de nax* cyar, aah! I see yo« is a doctor. Will yon please come right along, sahf Tn the face of such an appeal what . mml4 l do? * - ) " It’s your horrid goatee. Albert/ ■y wlfis 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 good by 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 Bend 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 automobile.’’ “But did you send your bill?” the friend persisted. “Eh—oh, yes, I’ve been sending it regularly every month for the last year.”