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that I get the picture, and I'm getting our of here to-day.
- I had decided that before you came in, but I wanted to pass on to you my line of thought so that you would know and not perhaps even be hurt."
So passed on, the line of thought bloomed into a multitude of observations and impressions, all having to do with the entirely extraordinary prestige,
authority, power of the medical profession vis a vis the lay individual; and because that relationship has undergone profound alterations without, however, losing its power, either psychic or overt, it might well be viewed at least as attentively as other repositories of power. I began my observations on an elementary level.
A person, Mr. L. from Lake Forest for example, goes into a hospital because there is something wrong with him ad his local medic tells him that's the
thing to do. "Chances are there's nothing, but it's better to make sure. Get an electrocardiogram and a few X-rays. I'll put you down for Tuesday and they'll call you when they have a room for you."