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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.4 Reading Skills. Which quotation from Doctor Keene in the excerpt best supports the idea that he is more interested in himself than the health of Roger Button's child?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by overstressed doctors It's probably best to avoid them When
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you're getting a physical i'm checking the following dialogue and
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we're thinking about roger button and dr keene Why yes
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i swell boy or girl Well which quotation from dr
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keenan The excerpt best supports the idea that he is
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mohr interested in himself than the health of roger buttons
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Child near the potential answers All right well clearly the
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good dr kean is in a bit of a huff
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Apparently delivering reverse aging babies isn't his very favorite thing
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to do in the morning before his coffee anyway although
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maybe more startling than the good doctor's lack of concern
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for the button family is his comment that one more
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would ruin him Just how many old babies has dr
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king delivered or maybe he's referring to some past birthing
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tragedy We'll still the point is something bad happened but
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a lot of the other comments here don't really convey
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self interest So much is just general frustration and annoyance
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Talk sends and go see for yourself are just kind
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of curt rude and after a fashion doesn't so much
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communicate selfishness as it does a sense of ominous mystery
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like that feeling that creeps up your spine when you
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stick your hand inside the mystery box What is selfish
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is that all the doctor can think about is his
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own reputation and trying not to deliver anymore g's or
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babies because one more could ruin him Makes answer see
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the correct choice because let's face it some doctors can
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be a little self centred Especially when it's already five 00:01:43.193 --> [endTime] o'clock And while they could be golfing
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