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“Well, I'll have to get my card.” He gets his card and tells you the whole story. “He came here twice a week for six months.”

I discovered that a man will tell a doctor what he wouldn't tell his priest. He'll make a clean breast to the doctor. Why people think you have to make a clean breast to the doctor, I don't know, but as far as my voice can reach I've always advised them not to tell a doctor anything that isn't directly and obviously connected with the injury or the disease they claim to have. “If he says, ‘When did you first begin to feel these pains?' all right, tell him, ‘On Monday afternoon.' If he says, ‘Did you ever feel such pains in your childhood?', don't answer ‘well, I might have.' Don't let him get away with asking questions like, ‘What did you do as a child? Where did you go to school? Who did you know in school? Did you ever do anything you ought not to while you were in school?’”

I could never understand why they did, but I may say that they opened their hearts and told the doctor. The doctors asked the most personal questions I sometimes think out of sheer curiosity. They have exaggerated this scientific diagnosis so much that it leads them to explore any human being they come in contact with not for the purpose of





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