Frederick Hopkins, a medical doctor who had entered the Novitiate with Gerard in 1868, and whose suave manner had earned him the nickname of "the genteel Hop, " sat on the sofa cushion next to his and glanced at the page.

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When my wife entered her eighth month, the doctor said it was time to decide on a hospital.

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Keaton was never shy about incorporating his politics into everyday life, becoming a true spin doctor years before that term entered the lexicon.

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Yet a 2007 study of California in the Annals of Emergency Medicine showed that up to 20% of the patients who entered an emergency room left without ever seeing a doctor, because they got tired of waiting.

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