If you want to know how well the medicine works, ask the patient

It was an invitation that made no sense. I was asked to be a special guest of the South Korean Ministry of Tourism and KMI International, a company that markets medical tourism. Why me, I wondered? As I re-read the invitation, I remembered another strange offer I received in the 1970’s during a tense period in Israeli-Arab relations.

“Hello Dr. Goldberg,” an official from the Jordan Ministry of Education had said. …

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