El médico certificador [English translation]

M.D. so and so

was a worthy professional.

An example of integration

between work and vocation.

His task wasn't to treat

but only to check

the illnesses of the staff

of a big industrial company.

The doctor was very skilled.

He has detected many more

than a hundred cases of falseness

in sickness notices.

Facing that his procedure

consisted in not giving in.

"No sir, don't lie to me.

I'll make you get fired."

"Everybody wants to miss.

Everybody wants to laze around.

Why don't you leave the place

for those who want to work?"

If the ill was very tough

the doctor was harsher.

"Don't make a scene, you're not that sick,

go take a mejoral."

According to his role

the doctor was earning a big income.

Knowledge doesn't take a place

but it must be valued.

M.D. so and so

never saw an hospital again

since he went to the college

many years ago.

Since he graduated,

the doctor never again

felt interested in finding out

the cause of a lumbar ache.

He never saw a kidney again.

Nor he treated someone with measles.

And theres nobody who can say

of seeing him prescribing.

Not even for fun

he was seen any time

helping in an operation

or signing a defunction.

Nor listening with attention

to the beats of a heart.

Nor ever taking the pressure.

Let alone giving an injection.

But nobody ever doubted,

nobody ever wondered

if it wasn't a mistake

the cross in the Ford's plate.

And if you one day go

to his house, in a wall,

you'll see it in all its splendour.

You'll see the doctor diploma.