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Office Hours
Volume 1, entries 868. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 868
[This margin-title, Office Hours, means whenever a doctor and I met or doctor and patient met; the former an interview, the latter a consultation:] I say we won't have as good a business in de mawnin' heah on a day on a Monday as we will afternoon.
[My contact man Edward is talking.]
(Why?) Because de people dat we re'lly want won't come heah till afternoon. (Why not?) Well, it superstition. Dey jes' won't work in de mawnin' - see nobody in de mawnin'.
(On Monday morning they don't work?)
No - won't see nobody. Dey be all heah - be after dinnah [noon meal]. So whut chew have tuh git dis mawnin' is little stuff.
(I see.)