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The Preface 

Word Count: 327    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

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, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician. He sees many

an that which helps to emphasise the graver side of life. A tale which may startle the reader out of his usual grooves of thought, and shocks him into seriousness, plays the part of the alterative and tonic in medicine, bitter to the taste but bracing in the result. There are

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“I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician.”
1 The Preface2 Behind the Times3 His First Operation4 A Straggler of '155 The Third Generation6 A False Start7 The Curse of Eve8 Sweethearts9 A Physiologist's Wife10 The Case of Lady Sannox11 A Question of Diplomacy12 A Medical Document13 Lot No. 24914 The Los Amigos Fiasco15 The Doctors of Hoyland16 The Surgeon Talks