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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I make a surgeon give me my book back?

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

Q. Towards the end of last year, I began three months of treatment for a knee replacement. During one consultation the surgeon and I chatted about a mutual interest, the pleasure of cigar smoking. In fact I ceased smoking some time ago, but still had a quantity in my humidor and was pleased to make a gift to someone still enjoying a smoke.

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