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(Last Monday afternoon Dr. Kardon’s nurse called to give us an appointment at St. Joseph’s emergency room at 2:45 PM Friday, to see Dr. Sobel from Ithaca. I agreed to it, and told Jane, but we didn’t really want to go. Today Dr. K called and we arranged that she stop at the house tomorrow before 2 PM. I told her Jane’s finger is improving, and that as far as I could see no other fingers were involved in the discoloration. [As I type this Wednesday morning, the finger looks even better.] We talked about using Dr. K’s visit tomorrow, and the improvement in the finger, as excuses to “squirm out of” Friday’s appointment with Dr. Sobel.
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It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. (Long pause.) There are times when circumstances make some conditions more palatable than others, times when a trip to an emergency room is quite necessary. Yet it is certainly well known that such places are indeed breeders of infection, and of course the belief makes it so.
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