Medicine: Husband of the Patient

In a conference room at San Francisco's Langley Porter Clinic, half a dozen men sat around a table and talked, it seemed, about everything under the sun. Was it a good idea for one of the men to take his wife out to dinner soon after she came home from the hospital? Should a man take a job at lower pay, but with better chances of promotion? What is marriage really for, anyway?

Now & then one of the talkers appealed to the moderator who sat at the end of the table. He would give factual information, or suggest a line for...

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