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Although he became popular with Kenyon students and ended up teaching numerous classes, his first class, a critical examination of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', only had two students. | Although he became popular with Kenyon students and ended up teaching numerous classes, his first class, a critical examination of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', only had two students. | ||
==Naval | ==Naval service== | ||
On 18 April 1943, Santee was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. He served as a doctor in the Pacific theater until his discharge in 1945. | On 18 April 1943, Santee was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. He served as a doctor in the Pacific theater until his discharge in 1945. | ||
==Medical career== | |||
Santee worked as a doctor in Baltimore and several other cities in the United States from 1945 until 1963, when his father died. Upon his father's passing, Santee relocated to Wapwallopen and took over the family medical practice. His office was in the family mansion on River Street. | |||
As a small town doctor, he was known for charging very low fees and sometimes even accepted barter from poor rural farmers who could not afford to pay. | |||
He maintained a staff of nurses and young girls who interned in his office. | |||
It has been speculated that he sometimes dispensed medications without much discretion and would give prescriptions for highly addictive drugs to any patient who asked for them. His annual order for morphine was so high that it once triggered an investigation from the Food and Drug Administration. | |||
==Involvement with the occult== | ==Involvement with the occult== | ||