[Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookThree Men in a Boat CHAPTER I 7/21
I crawled out a decrepit wreck. I went to my medical man.
He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now.
"What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice.
He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each." So I went straight up and saw him, and he said: "Well, what's the matter with you ?" I said: "I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me.
Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished.
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