A Singular Medical Examination!!

I was in the office of one of the new doctors in our town when a little girl of seven came into the clinic carrying her doll, and asked the doctor to examine her daughter for her at once.

The doctor winked at me and obligingly examined the doll, then prescribed for her plenty of sleep and less eating of sweets. The little mother nodded her head with sadness and gravity, then handed him a note of children's play money on which was written "five liras." When the doctor thanked her, she answered, saying: "I believe the instructions say that your examination here is only three liras."

He replied: "That is correct — my apologies." Then he put the note in his pocket, took two liras from another pocket, and gave them to her.

When the child had gone, the doctor turned to me and said: "That scene was worth the two liras, for I have found a splendid story I can tell my colleagues at the next doctors' meeting."

A few minutes later, while I was buying cigarettes from a vendor nearby, I saw there four or five children, among them that little mother, eating a loaf of bread; and how great was my astonishment when I heard her say to them with decision: "Tomorrow we'll try that new doctor in the street across the way!!"