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“What can I do for you?”
“That”, he said, “is what I came to find out”.
“Yes, but how do you think I can help?”
“But, doctor, how should I know? That is what I came to you to find out.”
“Yes, but what is troubling you? Presumably you wanted to see me for something of which you are complaining.”
“No, not at all. I have nothing to complain of. We are very lucky.”
“You must have wanted to come for some …”
“Oh, I see – my wife sent me.”
“Ah, I see.”
(But do I? So far the only thing that is clear is that I am no wiser than I was when a brief note from his doctor asked me to see this patient – the husband of a woman whom he had originally treated for pneumonia. “More your line than mine”, he said.)