Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1912 — In the Wrong Department. [ARTICLE]

In the Wrong Department.

A prominent physician tells this story at the expense of the modern craze for speciahsm in the medical profession: A poor woman from the East Side of New York went to a nearby dispensary to ask aid for her little son, who had one of his fingers smashed with a baseball bat. At the first room where she applied she was told by a curt attendant that the -boy could not be treated there. ■ “Wrong place,” he explained; “this is'the eye and ear department.” “Vere is der thumb und finger deinquired the'woman, simj>ly.—Harper’s Weekly.