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Show Too Late. A well known physician was examining examin-ing a class of nurses who had served their appointed time in the hospital The candidates filed past him, and to each he addressed a question calculated calcu-lated to show the nurse's efficiency. In one of the questions he described the condition of a patient and asked the nurse how much morphine, in her opinion, opin-ion, should be administered to the sufferer. suf-ferer. "Eight grains," promptly replied the nurse. The doctor made no comment, and the girl passed on. When her turn came again she appeared greatly confused, con-fused, and said to the examiner: "Doctor. "Doc-tor. I wish to correct the answer I made last time. I meant to say that one-eighth of a grain should be given to the patient." "Too late," remarked the Bhysiciah, without looking up from his question paper. "The man's dead." |