1 result for (book:tps7 AND heading:"delet session octob 21 1983" AND stemmed:hospit)
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Fred
Georgia
Lorrie
doughnut
swelling
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(What a comedy of errors, I told Jane. First the girls are wrong about the cause of the slight swelling, then Fred gives her a lousy suggestion about arthritis! I told Jane I hoped the whole episode served as a warning as to what hospitals were really like, and the well-meaning but misguided people who worked in them. Jane answered my question about whether Fred had any idea he was giving out rotten suggestions about arthritis by saying that it never occurred to him—or any other doctor.
(“But don’t they know any better?” I persisted. I even meant ourselves. For if people “knew better,” then places like the hospital would be empty, and all the people in them would be working at other kinds of jobs. Of course. “The only thing that’s going to save us is ourselves,” I said, and reminded Jane to never forget this little episode. “When you get home,” I added, “we’ll throw away all of your old clothes in the closet and buy new ones.”
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