NewMexiKen has really liked my current physician. He’s exceptionally pleasant, very thorough, patient, responsive to questions, has a wonderful sense of humor and is seven months older than me — which is good, because he tends to not fall back on the “you are just getting older” diagnosis so much.
But I have been reading Daniel Yergin’s great history of the oil industy, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. Yergin writes about an Armenian, Calouste Gulbenkian who — to a large extent — brokered the deal in 1928 that led to the allocation of middle eastern oil among Royal Dutch/Shell, Anglo-Persian (now BP), the French and New Jersey Standard (eventually Exxon). For his efforts, Gulbenkian took 5 percent.
Nearing 60, according to Yergin, Gulbenkian lived at the Ritz in Paris or the Ritz or Carlton in London “attended by a succession of mistresses, at least one of whom at all times, on the basis of ‘medical advice,’ had to be eighteen years or younger in order to rejuvenate his sexual vigor.”
Where does one find a doctor who will dispense that sort of “medical advice”?
In Florida- happily dispensing truckloads of Viagra.
In states where civilization still exists, practicing in a Baddoc-In-The-Box.