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so glad to see you." But I did not make that call an omission which I recall now with regret.
Chapter Ten Having completed the usual rotating internship and a medical residency, I was awarded the William Henry Holmes medical fellowship for a third year of training. Dr. Holmes had been Chairman of the Department of Medicine when I began my internship, he was also my father's doctor and a great favorite in the estimation of both of my parents. "He's a great fellow," my father said. "He knows just how to handle your father," retorted my mother, "and that's what counts. He's a very distinguished-looking man, and a real Scotsman. It doesn't seem to me, to hear him talk, that he's very happy, and I don't get the impression, either, that he's very interested in his career as a doctor. He seems terribly independant."
"He isn't very well. I was making
rounds with him to-day and when we got