Tour

If you have a two-week holiday for a trip to Europe, where would you go ?

Some lovely creatures in Pluto suggest joining a crash tour and visit 10 different countries - to get a glimpse of the whole continent. I find it an innovative idea, not only because I cannot imagine where else they could see besides those airports and bus stations, but, more importantly, these guys actually had the same 10-country tour a year ago. Gently I point this out, and their reply is: they have forgotten everything from the previous trip because the stay was so short.

You find this story unbelievable ? Quite right, it is my invention. Our friends from Pluto are actually not planning a trip to Europe, but a 2-week course of internal medicine - on 10 specialties - for our medical students before they are advanced to the final year. It seems that our students are televisions - the channel could be changed by a click of finger, and you can do administration by the remote control in a non-touch technique. (Ah, that's why whenever problems arise, they can claim that their hands are clean. Lesson learned.)

As Sherlock Holmes rightly pointed out, reality is always more difficult to believe than any invented tale.