At the age of fifteen I got a job in a drugstore filling prescriptions.

Don't you have to be twenty-one to fill prescriptions?

Well, uh, that's for grown-ups. I just fill them for children.

No, no, Doctor. I mean, where did you get your training as a physician?

Oh, well, uh, to begin with I took four years at Vassar.

Vassar? But that's a girls' college.

I found that out the third year. I'd 've been there yet, but I went out for the swimming team.

The doctor seems reluctant to discuss his medical experiences.

Well, medically, my experiences have been most unexciting. Except during the flu epidemic-

Ah, and what happened?

I got the flu.