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It was a proud day when Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin announced that he had discovered a cure for the common cold. But in the end, would the cure be worse than the affliction?
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The Coffin Cure - Alan E. Nourse
The Coffin Cure
by Alan E. Nourse
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When the discovery was announced, it was Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin who announced it. He had, of course, arranged with uncanny skill to take most of the credit for himself. If it turned out to be greater than he had hoped, so much the better. His presentation was scheduled for the last night of the American College of Clinical Practitioners’ annual meeting, and Coffin had fully intended it to be a bombshell.
It was. Its explosion exceeded even Dr. Coffin’s wilder expectations, which took quite a bit of doing. In the end he had waded through more newspaper reporters than medical doctors as he left the hall that night. It was a heady evening for Chauncey Patrick Coffin, M.D.
Certain others were not so delighted with Coffin’s bombshell.
It’s idiocy!
young Dr. Phillip Dawson wailed in the laboratory conference room the next morning. Blind, screaming idiocy. You’ve gone out of your mind—that’s all there is to it. Can’t you see what you’ve done? Aside from selling your colleagues down the river, that is?
He clenched the reprint of Coffin’s address in his hand
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