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can wash it up for the present, but it can pop again if you don't watch out.
At any rate, we reorganized there. That was one of the more painful things because some of the fellows that we had to let go in the Medical Department had political influence. One of them even got to Governor Smith. I can't remember his name. He made a very pathetic case. The Governor was interested, and as a matter of fact, I felt sorry for the fellow too. He hadn't shown good judgment, but neither had he been as bad as he might have been. However, we couldn't temporize with it, because he really had done just about as much as any of the others had. The Governor stood by me on it. He was deeply touched by this man's appeal, but he saw that you had to have that place clean. There was nothing else to rely on.
All this time there was this constant agitation about allowing the claimant to use their own medical officer. I'm not sure that Cullman didn't aid on that. It sounds fine to let the patient choose his own doctor. However, it's the craziest thing in the world, because the patient would go to this fine little man out in Brooklyn and he wouldn't get the care that he ought to have or that he was entitled to. I do think that there should be more
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