The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
SUPERIOR'S PHYSICIANS
BADLY BOUND BY ETHICS
Dread Diptheria Is Permitted to Carry Off Sweet
Little Girl Through Professional Neglect
and d Most Cruel Custom.

what doctor nave you hadY"
was Mason's first question.
CDR. Adams" was the reply.
"Did he tell you what allied your
girl?"
'No," the parents answered.
'sDidn't he tell you she had
diphtheria?"
"No," was the response.
'Humph! That's what she's
got.''
"This is Adams case. Make
him come down and take care of
the GIRL" insisted DR.. Mason.
eve did call him and he would
not come"
"What did he say?'
''He said that he was sick"
"The old rascal is no more sick
than I am, Z" remarked DR.. Mason.
L saw him on the street tonight. -
DR.. Mason finally prescribed a
gargle and some pretty pink pills,
after which he ducked out of the
Gonser home and got far away
from "Adams' case.' He said
nothing about an injection of anti.
toxin or quarantine Of the house.
Mr.. Gonser was at the Adams
office early the next morning but,
after waiting at length, failed to
meet the doctor.
The. unfortunate little girl was
rapidly getting worse. Mr.. Con
ser got in touch with DR.. Adams
over the telephone.> He was i'm
portuned to visit his little patient.
II can't come. I'm too busy"
was all the satisfaction Mr.. Gonser
received.
DR.. Adams then was only five
blocks away from the Gonser
home. 81. 49,
"Then. csend. some one," Mr..
Gonser pleaded.
II can't" replied DR.. Adams.
"Call some one yourself"
"That will do no good. We will
be asked whose case it is the very
first thing
"Do not tell anyone I have been
THERE cunningly suggested the
recreant leech.
"Whom shall I calf" queried
the distracted father.
."Oh, call Searles or McGill, u
suggested complacent DR.. Adams.
DR.. Searles agreed to come but
stated that he could not get around
for some hours. A nearby grocer
finally induced DR.. McGill, city
physician, to come.
"What doctor have you had?''
was McGill's first question.
cdr Adams" he was informed
Its Adams case, then. Make
him take care Of her,
"Great Cripes!" exclaimed DR..
McGill, as he began to understand
the case. "The girl is rotten with
the diphtheria. She should have
had an injection of 10000 units of
anti-toxin in the very beginning. -
DR.. McGill bluntly informed the
heart-broken parents that there
was no hope for the child, after
which he took his departure. In
the nearby grocery, however, he
Indignantly expressed his senti-
ments over the way the case had
been handled. .
The distracted Gonsers felt that
while there was life, there was
hope. They were stunned by the
impending loss Of their dear little
girl, the joy and sunshine of their
humble home, the flower of the
family, the favorite of the neigh.
borhood. lying there with the
Pearly Gates. soon to close behind
her too short little life. &. 1
Kind neighbors finally induced
DR.. Goodfellow to come. He ar.
rived at about 8 p. m, Tuesday,
December 10, three days after DR..
Adams had made his first and only
visit.
who's been here?" was DR..
Goodfcllow's early question after
entering the Gonser home.
DR.. Adams again replied the
Gonsers.s,
Il cannot. very well do any
thing. This is Adams case.o
doctor, pleaded the grieying