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Tales from Today's PHAs
I told you you'd go blind!
- from Dick Conlon
In August 1968 while
attending interviewing school, Dan VanderMeer, our instructor taught
the correct use of motivation and the value of thinking on your
feet.
Dan told of the time he was
interviewing a syphilis patient in the lower levels of the Chelsea
Clinic in NYC back in 1965 (the year of the great blackout). Despite
Dan's best efforts the patient divulged little. Suddenly, the lights
went out and the room was completely dark. The patient fearfully
exclaimed, "what happened? I can't see a thing." To which
Dan replied, "See, I told you you'd go blind."
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