"How to Discourage a Doctor"

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"The sound of a door roused me again. The man in the three-piece suit emerged from the office, he and the hospital executive to whom he had been speaking shaking hands and smiling. As he turned, I looked about. Where was “How to Discourage a Doctor?” It was not on the table, nor was it on the chair where I had first found it. “Will he think I took it?"
So there was not a real document, it was a dream?
 
So there was not a real document, it was a dream?
The story's an allegory, bro. The "document" symbolizes all the executive and administrator-led changes in healthcare which are destroying independent physicians' practice.
 
So there was not a real document, it was a dream?
The whole story ends with "and then I woke up."
Send him back to writing school. Minimal pass grade would be if it were aliens or something.
 
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