human
I don't believe a word of it!
gpt
But, Helen, the doctor ought to know.
human
Of course he ought to know, but does he know? If doctors agreed among themselves, I'd have more use for them. A poor patient has to submit to having everything the doctors are interested in for the time being. A specialist can always find you suffering with his specialty. Didn't old Dr. Davis treat Father for malaria because he himself, forsooth, happened to be born in the Dismal Swamp, got malaria into his system when he was a baby and never got it out? All his patients must have malaria, too, because Dr. Davis has it.
gpt
Yes, Helen, that is so, but you see Father's symptoms _were_ like malaria in a way,