The Stockbroker's Clerk: The New Practice

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Canon Story: The Stockbroker's Clerk
Title: The New Practice
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I was fortunate that the remaining patients of Mr Farquhar were prepared to stay with me or I would have struggled with my new practice.  But the greatest difference came when new patients called in, for my dear Mary would speak to them in such a reassuring fashion that they had started to feel better before they even saw me.

Comments

[vaysh]

A good practice stands and falls with the doctor's receptionist, imho. :) Lovely insight that Watson is having here.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent and canonesque sidelight on his flourishing practice. (I wonder, too, if there were some not-very-sick people who wanted to hear more Holmes cases.)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That's lovely ^^ (Makes me think of Watson's description of his wife at the beginning of The Man with the Twisted Lip.) It's nice to see Mary getting a bit more of a mention. It's a shame she's completely offstage in ACD's story. (Watson running upstairs to tell her where he's going rather suggests a little boy letting his mother know he's going off with a friend ^^)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. There may have been a few interested in the cases, but I suspect that Holmes wasn't well known when Watson was building up his practice.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I had been thinking of that story and it made sense that Mary would be a significant part of the practice, as I'm sure many doctors' wives were.

("And here's sixpence" she said as she used her hankie to clean the breakfast off his face.)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

"And here's sixpence" has just made me laugh an embarrassing amount ^_^ (Oh God. May need to have a little lie down...)