that time. He spoke in a gentle, low voice. He was very muchof a
gentleman, but not a pretentious gentleman. He wasvery easyto talk to, but
we did not have very many conversations, actually. Dr. Adams, the physicist,
finally got the synchrotron going. They did not have anyone available to treat
the patients. Dr. Stone wanted to have a particular person assignedto that.
He offered methe job of treating the patients, since I had qualified to be a
radiation therapist, but I declined becauseI felt that if I treated the patients
and was doing experimental work, it would beintellectually unsatisfactory. I
didn't do it. And I'm glad I didn't. I liked Dr. Stone is aboutall I can say.
BERGE:
How do you meanit would havebeen intellectually
unsatisfying?
& Meaning & do youyou p prefer research?
KOHN:
No, whatI meanis, if you're going to be a good therapist you've
got to devote a lot of time to it(If you're going to be a good experimentalist, ZO
you have to devotea lot of time to it.) AndI didn't want the responsibility of
treating patients every morning and then going to a lab every afternoon.
Because I was much moreseriously interested in experimental science than
that would allow. This is not to say that clinicians shouldn't do laboratory
work, I don't mean that. But for me, I couldn't make that time division. So I
didn't.
BERGE:
Wasthat for the synchrotron program?
KOHN:
That was for whatever I was doing at the Radiological
Laboratory. Or don't you understand the nature of that laboratory?