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DG: Now, before we move on too far, was there any considerations that your husband had to think about in terms of starting his practice in the Japanese community? Were there certain ways that you had to respond socially?
NS: No. He always knew that he wanted to come back and practice in Seattle, so there was no... it had been some time before any Nisei was practicing in Seattle so his object was to open a practice in Seattle.
DG: There was a need then?
NS: There was a need, (yes). And so he became busy and he also was able to use Providence Hospital as a major hospital to take his patients. And he didn't want to be -- there was Seattle General also -- but he didn't want to be going from this hospital to another one, so he just, before the war, he just made himself available to the two. And...
DG: Well, to the two. Providence and where else?
NS: Seattle General.
DG: And so then he didn't go to, like, Swedish?
NS: No, no.
NS: Swedish or...
DG: Virginia Mason, maybe?
NS: No.
DG: Or, that wasn't around?
NS: Well, it was, but it was still new. But he just confined himself to the other. He didn't want to spend his mornings going from one to another hospital and so he -- at first he was working at the emergency. But as soon as war came, that was terminated, of course, because it was in the evening and we were restricted then, as far as evening was concerned, because we were not allowed to wander after eight o'clock.
DG: So he was restricted, also?
NS: Oh, yes, because he was Japanese, all the Japanese.
DG: What about house calls and whatnot?
NS: He couldn't make them; all Japanese were restricted.
DG: So did he make...
NS: So he couldn't make any house calls.
DG: Did he make -- did he do phone call consultations?
NS: Oh, yes, he could do phone calls and he could get his friends to see the patients that had to be seen. He had friends, who were doctors, who could visit and see the patients that needed to be seen at that time.
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