The story begins as the doctor ( who is also the narrator ) is called to the Olson's family house. Their little daughter had been having fever for several days and the parents are worrying. He analyzes the family as he is taking out his instruments from his suitcase. The parents are eager to help even though, they are kind of useless to the doctor. He knows that they will only tell him what he needs to know and let him discover the rest. The ill daughter turns out to be a real prick, hard to deal with. The doctor, even though he wasn't expecting that much animosity from the animal takes the challenge at heart, due to the kids he has seen dying from the pandemic disease. He manages to get what he wanted from the little kid at the end. The only name in this short story is olson. The themes are disease, confrontation, use of force and health.
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