If the case is a positive one, diagnosed on unquestionable authority, and if the nurse has been sent by a dispensary, the Federated Charities, or through some other disinterested source, she should be readily able to gain admission. Having gained this, she should be able to hold her own against all comers. As a rule, it is the opposition she encounters before, rather than after her first visit, which determines her ability to do her work in the home. Once in the home, however, it should make little difference whether or not the patient changes doctors. If he does, she should continue her visits as usual—her knowledge of his condition makes it advisable to hang on to the family at all costs. If this change brings a friendly doctor, he will not object to the nurse. If it brings a prejudiced one, she should do nothing to excite his hostility. Thus, if the new doctor denies the presence of tuberculosis, it may become necessary for her to seem to assent to this opinion—for a time she may have to visit merely in the capacity of a friend, offering no advice, and distributing no supplies. She must be careful not to antagonize the family, for after all, it is the family, at the doctor’s instigation, which is able to turn her out. Thus, when they triumphantly tell her that the patient no longer has consumption, she should not contradict them. Time will do it for her. She may express pleasure at the happy change, and ask for permission to stop in now and then, in passing, in the capacity of an old acquaintance. This request will seldom be denied, and at all costs she must keep in touch with the family which now, more than ever, needs her supervision and aid. She must stand by, ready to give this as soon as it is wanted. During this time it will be very hard to wait, to see the patient relax all vigilance, and to see the family recklessly exposed. But this waiting policy will pay in the end. As we have said elsewhere, the consumptive changes doctors more often than any other class of patients, and the nurse must realize this, and be ready to follow him through the vicissitudes which these changes involve. She must avoid all criticism when the family is fallen upon evil times, and be ready to uphold and encourage them when they are fallen upon good times.