Uh, this text, written in collaboration with Kells Elvins in 1938, commemorates the first appearance with Dr. Benway. It’s called um, 'Twilights Last Gleamings'. Yep
SS America off Jersey coast: "Ladies and Gentlemen there is no cause for alarm. We have a minor problem in the boiler room, but everything is now under the sound effects of a nuclear blast."
Explosion splits the boat
Dr. Benway, ship's doctor, drunkenly added two inches to a four inch incision with one stroke of his scalpel
"Perhaps the appendix is already out, doctor?" The nurse said, appearing dubiously over his shoulder. "I saw a little scar."
"The appendix already out?! I'm taking the appendix out! What do you think I'm doing here?!’
"Perhaps the appendix is on the left side doctor. That happens sometimes you know..."
"Stop breathing down my neck, I'm coming to that. Don't you think I know where an appendix is? I studied appendectomy in nineteen-four at Harvard."
He lifts the abdominal wall and searches along the incision dropping ashes from his cigarette
"Get me a new scalpel – this one's got no edge to it!"
He thrusts a red fist at her. The doctor reels back and flattens against the wall, a bloody scalpel clutched in one hand. The patient slides off the operating table spilling intestines across the floor. Dr. Benway sweeps instruments, cocaine and morphine into his satchel
"Sew her up. I can't be expected to work under such conditions!"
By the dawn's early light, Dr. Benway pushed through a crowd at the rail and boarded the first flight out
SS America off Jersey coast: "Ladies and Gentlemen there is no cause for alarm. We have a minor problem in the boiler room, but everything is now under the sound effects of a nuclear blast."
Explosion splits the boat
Dr. Benway, ship's doctor, drunkenly added two inches to a four inch incision with one stroke of his scalpel
"Perhaps the appendix is already out, doctor?" The nurse said, appearing dubiously over his shoulder. "I saw a little scar."
"The appendix already out?! I'm taking the appendix out! What do you think I'm doing here?!’
"Perhaps the appendix is on the left side doctor. That happens sometimes you know..."
"Stop breathing down my neck, I'm coming to that. Don't you think I know where an appendix is? I studied appendectomy in nineteen-four at Harvard."
He lifts the abdominal wall and searches along the incision dropping ashes from his cigarette
"Get me a new scalpel – this one's got no edge to it!"
He thrusts a red fist at her. The doctor reels back and flattens against the wall, a bloody scalpel clutched in one hand. The patient slides off the operating table spilling intestines across the floor. Dr. Benway sweeps instruments, cocaine and morphine into his satchel
"Sew her up. I can't be expected to work under such conditions!"
By the dawn's early light, Dr. Benway pushed through a crowd at the rail and boarded the first flight out
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