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Q J Med 2003; 96: 693-694
© 2003 Association of Physicians

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The wrong trousers

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Admittedly, I did not look like a doctor. For one thing, I had just spent ten days on the Nile in a felucca with eight fellow travellers. (Feluccas are primitive sailing boats that look highly romantic in travel brochures but lose much of their allure on closer acquaintance). For another, when we reached Luxor, I had been struck by one of those acute delusional shopping disorders that so often afflict tourists, and purchased a pair of baggy cotton trousers with broad black and yellow stripes. I wore these for the rest of the journey south, so that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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