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Even doctors get sick ..."


When one opens the newspaper of the day and then is met by the information that a young boy with back ache was sent home from hospital with the implied message that he was a hypochondriach one isn't even surprised. Why should one? First of all it happens all the time that someone is not as sick as he or she thinks, also the boy may have regained his strenght by experiencing the atmosphere at the hospital. Brave patients feel the need to go elsewhere, preferably their private homes, when they are met with the bureaucracy of a hospital. Besides many good people have been brought to heel by still worsening conditions for patients and do not expect much. Sadly enough many may be more surprised when they are being treated right than when they are not.

A hospital is not supposed to be mistaken as to a complaint of back ache as the x-ray is not an unknown device. No, on the contrary, and the doctor who dismissed the boy certainly knew the technique. Actually he claimed not only that he knew it, but that he himself had x-ray vision. Everybody know that Superman can see through steel and even more, so maybe this doctor thought he was an unknown brother of the hero from outer space. All we know is that this doctor did not find it beneath him to tell the boy, that he - the doctor - had been blessed with this extraordinary x-ray vision and that this talent, gift or whatever