[sumo] A doctor comes after all..

[Jeanne Hedge]

Joe Kuroda <joe_kuroda at yahoo.com> wrote:  
>--- Moti <sumo1 at dichne.com> wrote:
>
>> A new psychiatrist ( Dr.¹âÌÚ) went to see Asa at his
>> home today at the
>> behest of the Kyokai clinic, after the doctor on
>> holiday came back but
>> refused to re-examine Asa. His diagnosis was exactly
>> the same as the
>> first doctor's 
>
>Apparently there was a difference of understanding
>with Dr. Imasaka, the previous doctor who examined
>Asashoryu for the Kyokai. He thought he was asked only
>for a second opinion and he has not accepted Asashoryu
>as his patient on behalf of the Kyokai.
>
>The new doctor Shuichiro Takagi, medical director of
>his own clinic located in a fashionable Jiyugaoka
>district in Tokyo, is a specialist in treating
>anorexia patients. He was asked by the Kyokai to
>examine Asashoryu and he came to the same conclusion
>as Dr. Imasaka.

On the face of it, does anyone else find it amusing that the Kyokai sent a doctor who specializes in anorexia to examine a sumo rikishi?


(and yes I know that anorexia is a psychological problem)


Regards,
Jeanne Hedge