“So you’re like a hospital without an ambulance?” “I’m like a grocer who doesn’t make you dinner.” “You just sell the ingredients.” “Yup.” “Well, I have some advice if you’d like to improve your business.” “Oh? Does it need an X-ray for a hangnail?” The doctor would suck his teeth and narrow his eyes at Hassan. To say the doctor pushed for expensive tests was like calling him a thief. Worse than a thief, a liar. He turned and walked away. And from that moment,
