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I went to see my primary care doctor a couple of weeks ago for a routine exam.I mentioned to him that I was traveling to East Africa next month to visit some game parks.My doctor is a senior staff member of one of Harvard Medical School's major teaching hospitals...IOW,he's no "local yokel".When I told him his reply was "you're going *where*?!" And then he went on to say that he "wouldn't even fly over" Africa,let alone set foot there.When leaving he said to me,in all seriousness,"if you get sick don't come here".

And given what I've read I don't blame him...or the staff at Bellevue.

“When leaving he said to me,in all seriousness,”if you get sick don’t come here”.

Excellent medical advice from a good doctor.

Reminds me of the only complaints I ever heard about my FP for over 35 years.

As some people/some of his patients aged, their jock injuries started to really impact their life styles. Yet they continued to do the same Jock things that hurt them when they did the Jock things.

So they would come to him with severe pain with complaints like, “I can’t run 5 miles anymore without my knees or hips or both hurting me!”

“I can’t use my overhead tennis Power Serve with my barn door size tennis racket without my tennis shoulders and elbow really hurting.”

“I can’t double haul my really heavy fly rod with a heavy rope like fly line and a heavy fly the size of a keeper fish, without my torn rotator cuff elbow really hurting!”

“I can’t throw a ball or pitch hard like I could in my 20’s without hurting!”

His response to these patients, who kept hurting themselves was simple, “Don’t Do that anymore!”. “Be sure to pay your bill on your way out!”

If they asked what he recommended, he would say, “I just recommended that you not do that anymore, have a good day, don’t do that any more, and pay your bill on the way out!”