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Doctor Against Doctor
Volume 1, entries 916. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Consultation Technique. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 916
(Testing the stylus, Brunswick, Georgia, Monday, March 13, 1939. This morning it was very cold. Yesterday, I heard [when I telephoned my wife that night], there was sleet and snow - wind with snow in New York City. And there was quite a strong wind last night too - and all the dust came into the room. [This was an unusual experience, dust and sand covering everything.] That hotel is certainly old-fashioned over there. [The hotel, The Oqlethorpe, was designed by Stanford White (1853-1906), murdered in another of his buildings, Madison Square Garden, Madison Square, N. Y. C., by Harry K. Thaw - one of the great American scandals.]
[I now talk with my contact man, Edward.]
(What about those two men getting into a fight out there yesterday - those two root doctors?) We's goin' to reliver [redeliver] dem in dis mawnin' if we can.
(I see. Well, how did they get into that argument?)
Well, one man wanta be better'n de othah one.
(What did the other fellow say to him?)
Well, de othah fellah tole him he could make him crawl on his belly like a roach, but he said he couldn't do it.
(They had an argument in other words.)
Dey had a arguments ovah it, yassuh.
(I had the same thing happen up in Charleston, once - two fellows [doctors]
got into a fight [see Index Doctors fight].) The othah one got mad an' left 'cause de othah one had got de last of him.
(The next number will be 1183.)
The interviewer calls the incident a fight; the reply describes an argument. Physical violence is not established.