| Show HARD WORK IN BEING DOCTOR an american woman asked conan doyle one day why he had given practice of medicine because the work was too hard doyle answered oh it cant be hard to be a doctor said the woman it Is both hard and unpleasant and to prove it said the novelist ill tell you about my first case my first case came to me in the middle of the night the jangle of the door bell awoke me from a souna sleep and shivering and yawning I 1 put my head out of the window and said chos there doctor said a voice tan you come to peter smiths house at once the trouble I 1 asked smiths youngest girl has took a dose of laudanum in mistake tor paregoric and were afraid shell doe all right ill come said I 1 1 I dressed and I 1 tramped three miles through the cold and rain to smiths twice on the way I 1 fell on the iry pavement and once my hat blew off and in the darkness I 1 was nearly halt an hour finding it finally though I 1 reached smiths but the bouse was dark shutters all I 1 closed not a light I 1 rang the bell no answer but at last a head itself gingerly out of a third fiory window be you dr doyle it eald yes said I 1 let me in oh no need to come in doctor said the head the childs all right now sleeping very quiet but how much laudanum did you give it said I 1 only two drops doctor not enough to hurt a cat I 1 guess id better take my head in now the night air Is cold good night sorry to have troubled you 1 I buttoned up my coat and turned homeward trying as best I 1 could to stifle my mortification and anger but suddenly the window was raised again and the same voice cried doctor I 1 say doctor 1 I hurried back I 1 thought the child had suddenly taken a turn for the worse well what do you want I 1 fald the voice made answer ye wont charge bothin for this visit will ye new york tribune |
