If you read The Blanket it certainly could have also been titled The Murder.
I know it's only a story, not an autobiographical article, but the story takes place in the Mariposa Apartment (where he lived on the third floor), and he describes downing a full glass of vodka after "testing" the doctor who told him that drinking would kill him with one or two "thimbles" of liquor.
But he moved in to Mariposa five years after his bleeding ulcer. So what he's saying is that for at least five years he had only tiny amounts of liquor. Which would contradict his usual story about picking up his old drinking habits within days or weeks of leaving the hospital.
Yeah, it's only a story (about a homicidal blanket, no less), but it's an interesting tidbit all the same. Seems that any other time he wrote or talked about "testing the doctor" was in stories where he resumed drinking almost immediately after the hospital.
