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few hours' sleep tonight, she could have his office
equipment tomorrow.
Scaper had already brought Judith Haig's case to
Dr. Deeds's attention as one of the victims of that
unnatural heart trouble. When the woman doctor
sleepily arrived at the hospital (in a 1947 RollsRoyce),
she read on the chart that Mrs. Haig had been brought
into Emergency as a victim of shock and of "possible
sexual assault." The opinion of the young resident on
duty was that Mrs. Haig was in a state of psychotic
withdrawal. After visiting Judith, Dr. Deeds told the
resident, with a little more stridency than she'd planned,
that the woman was not psychotic, but that she had
suffered a mild heart attack and that she had been
raped, both vaginally and rectally, and that she had
been severely beaten, and that if that was what he
called "possible sexual assault," she hoped it happened
to him sometime. The resident shrugged. Women were
hysterical and there was no sense in letting it get to you.
At the nurses' station Ruth shared a cup of coffee
with a young RN, also African-American, who
addressed her as "Sister." They talked about Judith