His distinguished features? Well, he was
short and wiry, olive skin, dark hair. Oh,
his distinguishing features! Well, a broad smile
and a stethoscope and a genuine concern made
manifest by his gentle demeanor and prodding
questions enabling him to accurately diagnose
whatever went wrong on occasion with a
growing young family and you miss him very
much since his retirement. His successor wears
a rictus smile and no stethoscope, rumoured to
be a very good physician, so good that your old
family doctor is one of his patients. Your young
new doctor asks direct pinpoint question his eyes
never wavering from the computer screen before
him. Where your original physician routinely
checked eyes, ears, throat, heartbeat, reflex, his
replacement does none of this. But he is adept at
diagnosis enabling him to refer patients onward to
emergency clinics where other doctors practise
emergency medicine that your old doctor once
incorporated into his practise, or to specialists, or
writes prescriptions for medications whose effects
are disagreeable, or tests ad infinitum at a dizzying
pace, reminding you how much you miss the
sterling professionalism and dedication of his
predecessor in a changed world of medical practise.
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