“See that crowd there?” I did. There was a crowd of people in the waiting room, a mélange looking like a bar mitzvah at the United Nations. “My outpatients. I do nothing medical for them, and they love me. You know how much booze, hot merchandise, and food there’s gonna be in that crowd as Hanukkah and Christmas presents for me? And all because I don’t do a goddamn medical thing.” “You’re telling me again that the cure is worse than the disease?” “Nope. I’m telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of illness in this
