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My discourse on acne was interrupted by the Lone Ranger.
Well, not exactly. But it was Rossini's "William Tell" Overture, playing on the patient's cell phone. Hi-Yo, Silver!
My clientele prefers the classics, at least in their choice of cell phone ringers. Discussions of eczema or freezings of warts are sometimes punctuated by Bizet's "March of the Toreadors," Dvorak's "Humoresque," or Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries."
Not to mention, of course, an assortment of pop, rock, and jazz, and a panoply of rings, bells, whistles, squeaks, squeals, and so forth. The patient looks embarrassed, fumbles for the phone, checks caller ID, and shuts...
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