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"I know All this doesn't influence me, Edwardes"

"Wait a -room as perfect as I

could devise it I never finished an operation without having e count But that first case died

because a sponge had been left in the operating field You kno those

things go; you can't always see theoes by the count, after

reasonable caution Then I lost another case in the same way--a free case

"As well as I could tell, the precautions had not been relaxed I was doing

from four to six cases a day After the second one I almost went crazy I

o away"

"There was another?"

"Not for several ain, I

performed my own autopsy I allowed only my first assistant in the roo again When I

told hi away, he offered to take the blame himself, to say he

had closed the incision He tried to make me think he was responsible I

knew--better"

"It's incredible"