Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Doctor had "Reservation"

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This is an anecdote recounted by a colleague from his experience in the seventies. He used to call on a top ophthalmologist/GP in a small town near his headquarters to seek prescriptions for Multivite-FM, as the doctor was a good prescriber of multivitamin brands. When the doctor did not respond even after a few visits, he asked him, ‘Dr. Do you have any reservations about my product?’ The small town doctor who was poor in English unfortunately understood that our friend posed the politically 'inappropriate' question and replied, ‘Yes, reservation, get the hell out of my clinic!

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