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Dr. Rob: Good humor

Posted on April 24, 2008

The following is a reader take by Dr. Rob.I don't remember why he came to see me on that day. He was anxious on most of his office visits, so I had to spend most of my time dealing with his surplus of symptoms. As I walked in to see him on this day, he started rapidly hitting two fingers of against the top of his opposite wrist. As he continued to smack his wrist he said to me in his thickly accented and very anxious voice, Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this. It was familiar; it is an old Groucho Marx joke. So was he kidding me? It didn't seem so. I paused, looked around for the hi...

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