A Physician was chided for not giving timely advice when the man was alive.
Chambry (The Physician at The Funeral)
Note: The Chambry collection is published in Greek. AI was used to translate the Greek to this text:
The Doctor and the Sick Man
A doctor, following along as one of his household was being carried out (for burial), said to those escorting him that this man, if he had refrained from wine and had used enemas, would not have died. But someone standing nearby said: “Man, it was not now you ought to say these things, when there is no benefit, but rather to advise him then, when he could have acted.”
How do you think an AI might simplify this fable? Here is one answer, and the illustration above was made from this simplification:
The Doctor and the Dead Patient
A doctor walked behind the corpse of a man he had once tended, solemnly shaking his head. To the mourners he declared, “If only he had avoided drinking wine and taken my prescribed treatments, he would still be alive today.” One of the bystanders turned and replied, “Doctor, your advice is wise—but useless now. You should have spoken while he still breathed, not after he was gone.”
Moral
Timely counsel is worth more than the wisest words spoken too late.
Perry. #114