Elinor Reiss wrote:
>
> An amusing and informative article about Mark Twain and his opinions of
> medicine and physicians in his time appears in the current issue of Annals of
> Internal Medicine, Vol. 126, No. 2 (15 January 1997).  The author is K.
> Patrick Ober, MD, a physician at Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
>

better yet here is an url to the article:

http://www.acponline.org/ns-search/journals/annals/15jan97/mtwain.htm?NS-search-set=\32f05\s69.f05c76&NS-doc-offset=0&