Best of British luck
As an adult. I’ve never seen the same doctor twice. This speaks to infrequent attendance, but also lends a certain hesitancy to presenting symptoms, as it is always a “first date” and as an inveterate people-pleaser, the last thing I am going to do is tell a perfect stranger just how unwell I am.
“as an inveterate people-pleaser, the last thing I am going to do is tell a perfect stranger just how unwell I am.”
This bit is going to rotate in my head like a chunk of lamb on a spit for a long time,
I keep wanting to read it as “As an invertebrate people-eater…” I keep picturing some sort of monstrous mollusk or something.
well aye there’s yer problem, mate, you’ve got no bones
A one-eyed, one-horned, invertebrate people-eater…
Who wears short shorts?
Alas, Jack, a man of science is likely to know that time travel is well nigh impossible. You might as well try convincing him that there exist demons that suck up happiness, or selkies attending primary school.
Or sentient onions whose parents are aliens wearing superhero costumes.
I’ll be very disappointed if a character named Fengus Bartleby Beng-Bop doesn’t appear somewhere at some point.
Poor Jack. It looks like a serious problem.
Telling the truth doesn’t tend to work out well in time travel stories, does it?
In lot of other stories, either, tbh
The life of a GP in Tackleford must be challenging. What kind of differential diagnosis do you use to separate patients suffering from the delusion they’ve been bitten by goblins from patients who’ve genuinely been bitten by goblins from patients who’ve been bitten by boggarts? And what’s the recommended regime of treatment for any of them?
I don’t think they’re in Tackleford.
I still have my commemorative William and Fengus tea towel somewhere.
I feel like this is at least progress from back when he was failing to tell Shelley this in actual language, though whether thats because he’s actually having a breakthrough or is instead just that much less likely to make any paradoxes occur due to not really knowing about this doctor’s future is unclear for now.