Complaints aside, in the prison vein a tale to tell. Towit:...

Complaints aside, in the prison vein a tale to tell. Towit: Close friend (now deceased) was the personal physician to one of Pakistan's previous presidents. When said president was overthrown he was given the job of chief medical officer of Pakistan's prison system. He was a kindly bloke with a twig dry humour and was in the habit of allowing hospitalized patients to return to their village for conjugal visitations. Assassins mostly, given that is a respected profession in the land of the Puktunwar (phenetic spelling) and he knew they would return in the time allotted for reasons too complicated to explain herein. The story goes that the prisoners loved him for his kindness, but after some years word reached higher prison officials and he was politely asked to resign his position. For the rest of his short life he was the Chief medical officer of the UN for the wild tribal region of the North West Frontier and could travel unmolested by the wilder tribes due to the protection of the Assassins Guild. And no one ever guessed that the tall Australian friend who often traveled with him was anything more than his disguise as a Chitraly war lord .

May he rest in peace.