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It was a gloomy winter afternoon and MacLeod was a bored prisoner, caught by the awfulness of yet another period on call when he could have been out in the wide world having fun. The day had drawn on as it almost invariably did with its prospect of unending work and a few moments of interrupted sleep in a bony bed. MacLeod disliked being on call almost as much as he disliked the hospital managers. And the thought of hospital managers brought him to the mumbling view that,
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Waxman, J. (2014). The Bed Jape. In: MacLeod's Introduction to Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4522-6_6
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