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“It is thornlike in appearance, but I need to order a battery of tests.”
- Title
- “It is thornlike in appearance, but I need to order a battery of tests.”
- Description
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1998 “It is thornlike in appearance, but I need to order a battery of tests.” Leo Collum. New Yorker. March 30, ’98.
This play on the mouse removing the thorn from the lion’s paw mocks modern medicine’s endless need for confirming tests. I still wonder where this particular story arose. - Date
- 1998
- Subject
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- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection