The Final Diagnosis

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That, added to two deaths which had occurred during the night

instead of the twenty-four Miss Reynolds had expected.

showing that twenty-six patients were being sent home

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Miss Reynolds, at thirty-eight,

perspired under a ninety-degree shade temperature with 78 per

It’s a good thing for all of us to have compassion. You see, you never know whether someday you’ll need it yourself.

ately now, for the sake of the Alexanders, was for their child to live. The force of his own feeling startled him; it was unusual for anything to affect him so deeply. He recalled, though, that he had liked John Alexander right from the beginning at Three Counties; then later, meeting his wife, knowing that all three of them had had their origins in the same small town, there had seemed to spring up a sense of kinship, unspoken but real

What were the chances of success, O’Donnell wondered—of the child’s survival. Ordinarily they might have been fair, even good. But now, with this procedure days late, the hope of success had been lessened drastically.