Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 15
Finding Out by Asking
SOME years ago a captain-doctor in the
army was being tested by a board of
examiners for promotion to the grade of
major. During the course of his examination
in diagnosis he was taken through a
ward of a hospital. The first patient was
selected, the candidate was ushered to the
bedside and asked to diagnose the case.
To the amazement and chagrin of the
examiners instead of investigating for
symptoms he asked the patient what he
was suffering from. The patient replied,
"Typhoid fever."
In the many and varied relations of public
accountants with clients and employes,
it sometimes develops that men on the staff
