The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: Recommendation, G

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Canon story: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

Title: Recommendation

Author: tweedisgood

Rating: G

“I not infrequently gain patients by way of recommendation from fellow-sufferers, sometimes anonymously, and one never knows quite what to expect. One chap yesterday – frankly, Holmes, I doubted there was anything physically wrong with him. His chief ‘ill’ was that he is utterly friendless. I’m no alienist.”

“Ah, Watson. It was not your professional expertise which prompted the...my recommendation.”

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Heh. One reason why people see doctors. Nice!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Well, in the NHS you only get 10 minutes per consultation, so the doctor had better be reasonably personable ;-)

Thanks.

[hardboiledbaby]

That's quite lovely. Our good doctor is first and foremost a good man. :)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes indeed, as Jeremy Brett once said, Watson is both a gentleman and a gentle man.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a beautiful statement (Jeremy Brett... *love*) and it perfectly fits this warm, sweet little 60. So nice.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

And he explicitly said it applied to Edward Hardwicke as well. Joins the Brett-love.