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Show DALE CARNEGIE SAYS... Worry Is the Greatest Enemy TR. JOSE P. BADEL, Jersey City, N.J., says he will always be a better doctor because of a trying and disheartening experience ex-perience he suffered some years ago when he was still a student ne was maKing a culture of Eberthella Typhosa, to you and me, the microbe that produces pro-duces Typhoid fever. He wasn't as careful of himself as he should have been and the result was that he contracted Typhoid himself. Things took a bad turn; he had a complication of meningitis, which is an infbmation of the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord. He, by chance, overheard his physician say to one of the other physicians that the case was very serious and would probably result in death. Ca, ,,eKC Just then came the experimental stage with Ihe sulfa drugs, so they experimented on him. He recovered from meningitis but he developed peripheral neuritis, lost 50 pounds, was practically skin and bones, and was so weak thai he had to M taught to walk again. Worried? Of course. But the disheartening word came when the doctor told him he was not to resume his studies for at least two years! During those two years his classmates would pass him by. Naturally this worried him. But it had to be faced, and he faced it. He went to the country and he made up his mind that worry would not go with him. He stayed a year before he went back to the doctor for a check-up. Said the doctor, "You have recovered in a wonderful v fOU are perfectly well, and you may now resume your studies." Sayi Dr. BadeL "I know now that I would not have re-eorered re-eorered in just half the time the doctor allotted me if I had ontinued to worry. And thU i a lesson that will stand me in good stead all my life, and make me a bett"r doctor than I ever ould have hoped to be." |