Medicine: Harem Surgeon

WANTED: Physicians for appointment to royal family. Young general practitioner or specialist well-qualified in surgery, particularly appendectomies. Wife also doctor, well-qualified in obstetrics and gynecology. Hot climate. May not have children accompanying.

Must be American-born graduates of Class A medical schools. All expenses paid for interviews in New York and Washington. Two-year contract, to $50,000 per annum for both. No U.S.A. income tax. Will reside in palace. Complete maintenance.

—Advertisement of the Woodward Medical Personnel Bureau, Chicago

A few young doctors who read the ad in medical journals last week thumbed fruitlessly through their atlases and then asked the Woodward Bureau for more details....

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