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A new doctor is always believed to be a good
doctor until he has been proved the contrary.
Norstrom wanted an immediate operation, I
was against it. The Baron wrote to me he was
getting tired of Norstrom’s gloomy face and
asked me to take him in hand. Of course I
refused, but Norstrom insisted upon retiring
and my taking over the case. The Baron’s
general condition improved rapidly, I was
congratulated on all sides. A month later it became
clear to me that Norstrom was right in his
diagnosis, but that it was now too late for an
operation, that the man was doomed. I wrote
to his nephew in Stockholm to come out to
bring him home to die in his own country. It was
with the greatest difficulty I succeeded in
persuading the old gentleman. He did not want
to leave me; I was the only doctor who
understood his case. A couple of months later his
nephew wrote to me that his uncle had left me
in his will a very valuable gold repeater in
remembrance of what I had done for him. I
often make it strike the hour to remind me what
sort of stuff the reputation of a doctor is made of.
Of late the position between Norstrom and me
had somewhat changed. I was more and more
called in consultation by his patients, much too
often. I had just seen one of them die rather
unexpectedly that very afternoon, the worse luck
for Norstrom as the patient was one of the best
known members of the colony. Norstrom was very
much upset about it, I took him to dine with me
at Café de la Régence to cheer him up a little.
“I wish you could explain to me the secret of
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