This post has been a long time coming…  It has been in my drafts for a few months, and I saw it earlier this week and said I must get around to writing it asap.  I also find it particularly relevant to something I’ve been going through.

So, I hope you will agree with me that doctors get sick as well as everybody else.  Maybe less, but given that they are exposed to more risk by virtue of their place of work, probably not.  Would it be right to judge your doctor’s ability to assess, diagnose or even treat your ailment because he or she has or had it too?

Well, the reason I saved this title in my post to write about was because someone in my Whatsapp group posted something earlier in the year about a woman who gives marriage advice, and that it was recently discovered that she had serious issues in her marriage – notably, her husband was unfaithful and even promiscuous.  I had an issue with that, and the way they dismissed her counsel and ability to give advice, because her life wasn’t perfect.  I asked the question in the group then about what qualifies someone…

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