"And your resident physician only passes through these hospitals once or twice a week—who attends to the patients?"
"Oh, the young doctors of course!"
"And are they experienced men?"
"Some of them are graduates, almost half I should think."
"And the rest?"
"I suppose, all have studied a year or two."
"And do these men—who have only studied a or year two—prescribe for the patients—without the advice of a superior?"
"Certainly, why not? They must begin sometime, you know."
"And will this poor woman, laboring as she is under an acute disease, be placed under the care of a mere student?"
The clerk mused before he answered.