Cuba, a medic with blue hands
When my travel companion and I got ill, we comforted each other that the doctor will take our blood, analyze it, set a firm diagnoses and set a treatment followed by a speedy recovery. When we saw the doctor he had hygienic gloves that had turned blue and we began to wonder, if perhaps our fever made us see things, for a medic taking blood samples might only have had red gloves. As it turned out, the doctor only wore those gloves because his old pen was leaking ink and he couldn’t afford a new one. Cuba has problems with office supplies and pens are (even for our standards) very expensive. So among other things we have also rewarded the doctor with a large supply of ‘writing utensils’ so he would not have to frighten his patiens any more with his blue hands.
Uroš Ivančič
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