Tale of a Scientist

Once upon a time a young boy attended an interview at a private hospital for a vacancy of a medical doctor post.

Interviewer: "Can I see your medical degree certificate."

Boy: "I don't have one."

Interviewer: "Then how is it that you are applying for the post of medical doctor?"

Boy: "I read a lot medical books, maybe more than many doctors, and I had worked in a clinic helping out to dispense drugs and taking temperatures and assisting the doctor in his works. In fact I have given good medical advices to many people who came to me for help and they later came back to thank me for curing them."

Interviewer: "But that doesn't make you a qualified medical doctor..."

Boy: "Since my grandfather was a medical doctor, my father is a medical doctor and my mother is also a medical doctor, and by virtue of me that has been born in a family of doctors, therefore I am inherently a born doctor by birth."

Interviewer: "Son, that wouldn't make you a doctor too."

Boy: "But Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus, the former science advisor to Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Dr Sheikh Muszaphar is called an astronaut because he has traveled into outer space but we must not forget that he is also a scientist because he is trained to conduct scientific research in space. Therefore, based on this qualified policy statement I should be a medical doctor by virtue of me having being train to conduct medical examinations on my patients at my family's medical clinic."

Interviewer: "Oh, I see! I think you may be right. Ok, please go put on the dress as you will be required to perform a surgery on an important patient who need a heart-bypass."

Boy: "Is that important person Dr Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus or Abdullah ?"

Interviewer: "I hope it is, but sadly, he isn't..."

References:

Bernama News: Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Entitled To Be Called A Scientist

October 16, 2007 18:16 PM