It is while I was working in Salahdin hospital, Tripoli, Libya.Our department used to run o.p.d. of Khadra hospital too, also in Tripoli about 3km. away. I had just finished my o.p.d. in khadra hospital & was about to exit when a middleaged man walked in with his adolescent son.I sat back in my chair.I could have sent him to casuality as the o.p.d.
time was over & all the registered patients had been seen.but somehow I decided to see the patient.the child was about 14yrs. Old & had pain in shin bone where he had been hit during a football game. There was no obvious swelling, I put my hand on the bone ,there was normal outline of bone.i wrote a prescription for brufen tablet in common use there at that time. The father took the prescription,looked at it & asked me, can you get a soora(Arabic word for picture also used for xray.).i said ok filled a x-ray request form & gave it to him.He…
