doctors vs fisikins
- Lawrence Lore
- Jun 24
- 1 min read
I found this essay that a little boy had written for the Lawrence County News in 1931. (My computer kept wanting to auto correct all the misspelled words….just read them phonetically and you will get the jest of it.)
“The doctor is a good guesser who gives you bitter medicine unless you have a payne in your side when he are a sirgin and will cut out your appendicitys. The doctor carries a medicine kase and a big pocketbook. They is two kinds of doctors- just doctors and fisikins. Common folks call a doctor when they are sick but stylish ones send for a fisikin.
“When you call a doctor, he feels your pulz and if you get well he kured you and if you died, it is your fault. When rich men get sick, fisikins get automobiles. A feler can’t be a doctor til he goes to kollege fore years, and gets a billygoatee on his chin.
“ Onct my sister got sik so she culd call a good looking young doctor. He come seven times and then he said to my pay, “My bill will be $50 but ile kancel it if you will give me your daughter.”
“Holy smoke”, sez mi pa, “take her and then send a doctor to call on the od ladie. I want to get shet uf her.” Mi mother heard him and that’s how he got that bump on his nose.
