We are all in this Doctor’s Debt.
A wealthy family took their children for a holiday in the country. Their host let them have his estate for a week-end. When the children went swimming in a pool, one of the boys was in danger of drowning, and the others called for help, writes Walter Winchell. The son of the gardener jumped in and rescued the boy in trouble. Later, the grateful parents asked the gardener what they could do for the youthful hero.) The gardener said his son jvauted to go to a good school. “He wants to be a doctor,” he said. The visitors shook hands on that. “We’ll be glad to pay for his schooling,” they told him. When Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia after the Teheren Conference, King George gave instructions that the best doctor must be sent to save him. That doctor was Dr. Fleming the developer of penicillin. “Rarely has one owed his life twice to the same rescuer.” It was Fleming who saved Churchill in that pool.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 14, 27 August 1947, Page 12
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174We are all in this Doctor’s Debt. Lake County Mail, Issue 14, 27 August 1947, Page 12
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