Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Byrnes did not get back until December. He went to see President Truman and formally resigned. "I had to wait a couple of weeks until Marshall could get back [from China]. So I went to the Naval Hospital again and they made another test. After they got through, a doctor came and said he did not know what to make of it. Everything was now all right. I had not taken any of the pills they gave me or anything. I haven't bothered about my health since...
...time I had made my way to the second floor of the Hygiene Building to report my illness it was 12:03 p.m. "All the doctors go away at noon," I was told, "and they don't come back until 1:30. Why didn't you come in the morning?" I said I was too sick, was still sick, and if I couldn't see a doctor I wanted to see somebody. I was directed to a waiting room on the third floor where a nurse took my temperature. It was 100. She told me to go to lunch...
...lunch, but I couldn't eat anything. I drank a glass of milk. Then I went to bed and slept until 1:25. When I had climbed to the third floor of the Hygiene Building again, a nurse took my temperature. It was 101. Then I saw a doctor, and he said I should go to the infirmary. While I filled out some forms, the nurse called a taxi...
...some breakfast, and had just lit a cigarette and pulled up a nurse when the doctor and his secretary came in. The doctor asked me when I first felt sick. I said, "When I first woke up yesterday morning I felt as though I had a fever...
...Then the doctor dictated to his secretary, "When he first woke up yesterday morning, the patient felt as though he had a fever." He asked me some more questions and looked at me. After a while he said I had pharangitis...