. Stories of a country doctor . UTZWEILER—THE SICK GIRL,THE DEAF LANDLADY WITH TIN TRUMPET, AND THE MILLINER. PRESUME that people of all pro-fessions and trades have their an-noying customers and patrons. Thelawyer is annoyed, no doubt, by thepersistent client who wants to suebut has no case; the merchant bythe customer who looks at everything inthe store and buys nothing ; the ministerby the sinful penitent who is always sin-ning and always repenting and is never satisfied; and soI might go on through them all and we would find thatthere is no business to transact, which brings us in con-tact
. Stories of a country doctor . UTZWEILER—THE SICK GIRL,THE DEAF LANDLADY WITH TIN TRUMPET, AND THE MILLINER. PRESUME that people of all pro-fessions and trades have their an-noying customers and patrons. Thelawyer is annoyed, no doubt, by thepersistent client who wants to suebut has no case; the merchant bythe customer who looks at everything inthe store and buys nothing ; the ministerby the sinful penitent who is always sin-ning and always repenting and is never satisfied; and soI might go on through them all and we would find thatthere is no business to transact, which brings us in con-tact with the masses, which has not its trials and pettyannoyances. Some people seem to have been born to troubleothers. They seem to feel that they are burden bearersand they are everlastingly trying to shift the people are born nial a propos—breech presenta-tions, so to speak—and they go about the world wrongend foremost, and no reasonable, well organized personcan come in contact with them without being more or. 320 People Who Annoy Doctoks. less upset. I know people, to avoid meeting whom, Iwould willingly walk around a whole block. It is not the sick alone, of whom the above observa-tions are made ; for, any good and humane physicianwill learn to bear and forbear with the sick. Some ofour patients, however, annoy us enough—those whoget their disease in their heads ; who are never anybetter; who tell us that the last medicine made themworse ; patients who come oftener than we desire andwho wish to go over all the details of their physical ail-ments each time, and who throw in all of their little fam-ily troubles, squabbles and broils, as a sort of relish;those who wish to hold a consultation with the doctorabout their cases, or come with a diagnosis alreadymade and a remedy selected, but seem to want the doc-tor to take the responsibility of the treatment. Such asthese give us trouble enough ; but, there are others whoseem to make it a part of their business
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