Then Willem has to take off his shoes in the examining room and Verbeuk gets up. He disappears through the door. I remain seated by his desk. Suddenly the doctor sits across from me and looks at me through the pink-framed glasses. The human locomotor apparatus is extremely well designed.
Orthopaedic surgeons are enthusiastic constructors.
They are surgeons and they operate. That is their profession. And mine, too. A violinist has to play the violin. A horticulturist has to prune.