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Show -57- medical students here? Both lobes are completely full." "We'd better admit him right away," he went on, talking to the wife, more than to the Professor. I He asked her to repeat the information she had given on the phone, and she showed him the slip with the figures given her by the Italian doctor. He made a note on a clipboard? then signalled for an orderly for a wheel chair. The Professor wanted to object? He had been proud of the fact that in all his sixty years, he had never been kept overnight in a hospital? But the doctor's words? even though spoken lightly, had frightened him a littler His own father had died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-three? before the discovery of the wonder drugs? He allowed himself to be wheeled from the examination section? up a slight ramp, into the hospital proper? At the door of his room, a large black woman in a white uniform greeted him cheerfully? She had the bed prepared and helped him Into a hospital gown? then out of his trousers, and into thesstarched sheets? "There you be? honey?" she said? patting his bedclothes smooth around hlnf? "Nurse'11 be here any minute?" When the nurse arrived, she gave him a shot of penicillin and a sleeping tablet? His wife came in after making arrangements for the admission? She looked tired?' "Do you think you can drive the car home alone?" he asked her? |
