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through and I was about to thank him and leave, he told me to stay and have a look at some X-ray films with him. Then it turned out that he was the patient and that they were doing a stomach and outlet for him. And as he took off his neck tie and shirt and lay down on the table, he announced that the barium must have reached the ileum; but when we were able to have a look we found the barium still in the stomach. You could have heard the proverbial pin drop!* "Well go head," said my mother. "What did that mean?" "It meant that he has an obstructive lesion of the pylorus, presumably an ulcer." "What will they do about that?" "There's nothing to do except to operate: either resect most of the stomach or make another exit from it thus by-passing the obstruction. He's scheduled to come in Sunday night, on his own service. We don't know yet who'se going to do the surgery. I wonder what sort of a patient he'll be."