“This brings to mind the story of the Doctor speaking tactfully, "I do not like to bring it up but the cheque you gave me has come back." Replied the patient, "I do not like to mention it either, but so did the complaint."”

—  Peter de Noronha

The Pageant of Life (1964), On Doctors

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