Colorado Springs, Co.-Recent reports indicate that Dr. Michaela Quinn’s mastery of baseball after reading the rule book once have her looking forward to the next subject she will master after reading about it briefly.
“I always knew I could do complicated medical procedures after just reading a chapter or an article or so,” Dr. Mike comments. “To know that I can do the same thing with a non-medical subject is exciting. People can no longer tell me some variation of things like ‘you know medicine, well I know this,” or ‘stick to doctoring,’ because I know I can be superior at just about anything if I’m given just a pamphlet and a few minutes.”
Dr. Mike has a long history of performing complex medical procedures after consulting a book on the subject shortly beforehand. Two striking examples include when she performed brain surgery on her son Brian and when she performed plastic surgery on John the train engineer–both successfully performed after consulting a book for a short period of time.
“It sure is a good thing Ma can read,” Brian comments. “I haven’t had as much luck reading about flying machines and making that work, but no one can do anything as good as Ma.”
The town, however, harbors some doubts.
“Aw, if her reading skills were so good, how come she didn’t see the fine print neither?” Loren Bray, proprietor of Bray’s Mercantile, queries as he references the town’s latest debacle of losing their money to the All-Stars baseball team. “Next thing you know, she’s going to be telling me she knows how to run the store better than I do because she saw some passing reference to business in a book she was reading.”
Saloon proprietor Hank Lawson ambles up and ignores questions about his notable absence of the last week or so as he comments that “that woman always has her nose in books and she’s always causing trouble. The two go hand in hand.”
Dr. Mike counters that while she knows that she has some critics, everything always works out well for her in the end.
“Yes, I missed the fine print as well, that is true,” Dr. Mike says, “but it certainly gave me the chance to pull that forced play at every base trick, which is something that even Sully had to admit I was right about. That just goes to show you how good I am at reading–Sully who had played baseball in the mining camps couldn’t come up with that play, but I read the rule book once and I could. Of course, that set us up for a smashing win and recouping the town’s money.”
At press time, Dr. Mike was basking in the glow of once again being the town’s hero while also hoping that someone she knows well would take up reading about the law because that’s where she draws the line.
