The doctor waits for the patient. The patient waits for the doctor. There is an issue here, as neither is willing to not-wait for the other. It’s a standoff: the doctor pratices no medicine, and the patient is not cured. “See,” my friend said to me one day, “that’s how she treats me, like the doctor who waits, waits, while I do the same.”
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