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BU: And then about the end of, end of the time I was finishing my internship, I got a telephone call from a guy by the name of Bob Bruce. Bob Bruce was from Rochester, but had came to the UW and UW had started a medical school, and he called me and says, "Why don't you come home?" he told me. I said, "Oh?" Said, "All right." He said, "I'll appoint you as one of the medical residents with the UW medical school." And then he said, "You finish that and you finish what you have to do and then you can come back and become my cardiac fellow in cardiology." So, hey, that sounds good. So I came, I came here and as soon as I got here, they're after me already to the draft. So that after I finish, finish my first year in what they call medical residency, which is a specialty training period, they, they ordered me to get to basic training and then go directly on to Korea, but I got, I got deferred the one year again because I had training. And I tried to use the same thing: if you got more training, you'll be more useful. And then I was supposed to go September 1. On September 1 it was predated that you were already in the army around the 25th of August. I blossomed out with jaundice and hepatitis, so, therefore, they said, "Okay. We got to put you in the hospital." So I got put up in the Madigan Army Hospital and I stayed there five months.

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DG: What years are we talking about?

BU: We're talking about 1944.

DG: Okay. That you went to Rochester and then you stayed there for six years.

BU: (...) Six years.

DG: And then you came back here for a residency.

BU: Yeah.

DG: At the U.

BU: Residency here at the University of Washington.

DG: And so then is it 1950 by the time, August, that we are talking?

BU: Yeah, we're talking about August, '51.

DG: '51.

BU: Because I spent one year at the university in residency.

DG: And then, so then you were already inducted into the army, '51, and then you came down with jaundice.

BU: Yeah, right. So I got over the trouble in Madigan Army Hospital, and the day that I got, I got discharged from the hospital, I had orders to go to advanced training. And then same time after you finish advance training in three weeks, I was supposed to report to Travis Air Force Base, California to go to Korea.

DG: So how do you think you got the hepatitis?

BU: Well, I know that because at the, at the hospital we had two patients that worked at the blood bank. Both of, both of them had severe hepatitis and both of them died. So they were my patients by choice or otherwise, but I must have stuck myself somehow. You've heard of hepatitis B? I had hepatitis B, that's why I got deferred for that thing.

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