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Demotion (with apologies to Franz Kafka).(Under My Skin)(Short story)

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From: Skin & Allergy News
Date: 20070601
Author:Rockoff, Alan

As Dr. Gregory Samplingerror awoke one morning, he found that he had been demoted overnight to a ridiculous second-tier physician.

"I cannot go to the office," he thought. "All the patients will see the change in me at once. And even if they don't, they will realize it when they find their copayment is $10 more."

Gregory called his new secretary, Ms. W, and told her to close his schedule indefinitely, as something had come up. He could tell that Ms. W knew the reason.

Gregory unfolded the official notice. "You have been assigned to Tier Two," it read. "You have been ...

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