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It was only when a woman answered and told me that this was no longer Dr. Molins’s office, that in fact Dr. Molins no longer had an office because he had returned to his native Catalonia two months before—which made the pain in my liver go from bad to worse at the mere thought of being hospitalized—that I immediately called Muñecón to get Don Chente Alvarado’s phone number then dialed it to request an urgent appointment.  \nThat afternoon, I made my way to the building where Don Chente lived on San Lorenzo Street in Colonia Del Valle, full of every possible prejudice because I assumed that he was an allopath who would use any pretext to poison me with chemicals and then charge me an arm and a leg for the consultation—according to what Muñecón told me, Don Chente had been one of the doctors most coveted by wealthy Salvadorans before the civil war but had been forced into exile after recklessly treating a wounded man who turned out to be a guerrilla fighter.  \nI lamented Pico Molins’s sudden departure, convinced that I would never find a doctor like him again: a homeopath who had opened my eyes to the scam of conventional medicine and who always saw me as his last patient  \nof the day, when nobody else was there, not even his secretary, so that he could take all the time in the world to listen to my complaints and then change the subject to Mexican politics—about which he loved to speak with scathing disdain—taking advantage of the fact that I was a journalist to milk me for the latest newsroom gossip, all of which I enthusiastically shared with him, stoking his avid curiosity and satisfying his craving to analyze human stupidity. Pico Molins was delightful, and he never charged me for any of my visits, not even the first one, when I came recommended by a colleague who’d informed him of the extent of my penury, the consequence of my forced residence in a foreign country in order to prevent my compatriots from carving me up into little pieces, as they had so many others.  \nThe fact that Don Chente had money to spare was evident from the very first moment the elevator door opened onto a foyer, which was in fact Don Chente’s private apartment and meant that the entire floor—the penthouse, I should say—was his, quite impressive given the size of the building and the fact that he was the first Salvadoran refuge I had ever met in Mexico who could afford such a luxury, nor was this just any old luxury, as I saw when a uniformed maid greeted me in said foyer and led me to a small sitting room, where, she said, I should wait for Don Chente. I must have spent about three minutes in that room, scrutinizing the décor and listening to the murmurs of a group of women who were probably drinking tea and playing canasta in a room surely less monastic than the one I found myself in, when a short, swarthy, gray-haired old man appeared, dressed in a guayabera and black pants and wearing tortoiseshell glasses that magnified his eyes; he greeted me with a certain formality, gently and very politely telling me what a pleasure it ","cbCaitAkLNR3xJAN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitAkLNR3xJAN","pdf",1687463,108,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Appointment with Don Chente Alvarado\n## The departure of Dr. Molins\n## The narrator’s fears and medical history","[{\"question\":\"Why does the narrator seek a new doctor?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator has had constant pain in his liver for about a week and feels that it may signal a serious disorder. 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