On the run over a gambling debt in Marseilles, he scores a job as doctor on a passenger ship about to leave for distant ports. While the captain knows he’s not the real thing, he’s the only candidate. So he’s hired and does his best by employing his well-developed flair for improvisation. By the time the cruise is over, he’s decided to go to medical school.
When next we meet him, he’s taking over a practice in a small village in the Rhone-Alps where the population is so healthy that his predecessor has been chronically under-employed while the pharmacist is almost broke. But once again Knock’s resourcefulness comes into play and it’s not long before he has most of the village hooked on the joys of hypochondria.
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