Witness went on to say that Dr. Martin also objected to Mrs. Pate going to the Victoria Nursing Home, saying that the nurses there were not trained—they were not trained according to his idea of training, and the food there was atrocious. One of his patients had to have her food sent in from outside, one could not get ice, and if a lemon was required it had to be indented for overnight. Un-jess your wife goes to Dr. Fearn's hospital," he concluded, "I will not have any responsibility." Plaintiff kept going round and round the subject of the consultation, and presently he declared that Mrs. Pate was addicted to morphia. Witness indignantly denied this, to which Dr. Martin pointed out that he judged it was so because half a grain took effect on her. "You are a d—d liar," witness exclaimed, and so walked out of the room and never saw Dr. Martin again.
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