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Every doctor should work as a waiter. “I hear many complaints from my fellow residents at the retirement home where I now live about the poor service they get from their doctors. What I hear sounds inexcusable to me: Doctors don’t listen, doctors don’t spend time, doctors are always hurried, doctors don’t return phone calls, and on and on.

I believe I know how to solve the problem. I offer the suggestion that learning to wait on tables be included in the regular medical curriculum.”