By Soroush Ebrahimi
1999

First Time Around
I remember many years ago as a child listening to a conversation among some adults about healthcare. One started to talk about the old practitioners and ‘healers’, some of whom he regarded as behaving as charlatans – “These charlatans would listen to the patient for a few minutes, then go into their back room and bring out a white pill and give it to the patient and send them away. These crooks would give the same white pill to every patient!”
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