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Why do patients leave the clinic without meeting the dentist? - English

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Why do patients leave the clinic without meeting the dentist?

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Some of them couldn’t wait as they had to rush to work. Some were upset by Dorothea’s howling. Some were scared by the groans made inside the surgical room and the hammer, pliers and jacksaw being taken inside the dentist’s room. So, patients left the clinic without meeting the dentist.

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Chapter 3.3 The First Patient (play)
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