a persian doctor who told me frightening things and invited to participate in insurance fraud questionable grayzone billing practices, but there was a Slovak technician there who looked uncannily like Good Soldier Švejk and with whom I had a surprisingly nice conversation about politics and sociology. He was older and more pessimistic about the future of liberal democracy than I, but at this point so is almost everyone.

The question is, do I want to get a free MRI from some shady practice, or pay hundreds of dollars for it, or not get it at all…

It’s too bad that hardly anyone I can tell about Good Soldier Švejk will have any idea what I’m talking about.