BEST PRACTICE
AN AUTOMOTIVE engineer from a local car manufacturer was made redundant and was having trouble finding a job, so he decided to open a clinic, with a sign outside that said: ‘GET TREATMENT FOR $50; IF NOT CURED, GET $100 BACK’.
A local doctor saw this and thought he’d earn a quick 100 bucks. So he visited the clinic and told the engineer: “I’ve lost my sense of taste.”
The engineer turned to his nurse and said: “Nurse, please bring the medicine from box #22 and place three drops onto the patient’s tongue.”
The nurse did as asked, but the doctor immediately spat out the medicine and cried: “This is not medicine, it’s petrol!”
“Congratulations,” the engineer replied. “You have your taste back. That will be $50, thanks.”
The doctor was furious, and after several days he returned to try and get his money back. He told the engineer: “I have lost my memory; I can’t remember a thing.”
“Nurse, please bring the medicine from box #22 and place three drops onto the patient’s tongue,” the engineer instructed the nurse.
“Hold on a minute,” the doctor interjected. “That medicine is for taste.”
“Congrats mate,” the engineer replied. “Your memory is back. That will be $50.”
The doctor was now apoplectic, and after several days he returned for one last try.
“My eyesight has become weak,” he informed the engineer.
“Sorry, I don’t have any medicine for that,” the engineer replied. “Take this $100.”
“This is a $10 note!” the furious doctor yelled.
“Well, looks like your eyesight is all better – that will be $50!”