（一）

我这条命掌握在梁智鸿手里已经好多年了。医者父母心，梁医生却从来没有让我感受到春晖的温暖，不是骂我穷紧张就是哄我吃那些松弛神经的药。到他诊所去看病常常要乾等好久好久才等到他从立法局开会回来；披上白袍还未必肯马上给我检查，总是先聊天，彷彿早就看扁我不会那么快翘辫子似的。好多年前第一次让他看病，他对症下药，我的病很快就好了。后来他好像觉得我喜欢装病，在我孩子面前也揭穿我的“阴谋”。奇怪，他一说没事，我一走出他的诊所，病马上好了。我不禁觉得梁智鸿是神医：他医术好，经验富，一言可以回春。他说死，大概是非死不可了。

（二）

梁医生比行医的大文豪契诃夫还要本事。契诃夫以医学为原配，以文学为情妇，左右解闷，虽然漫乱，却不单调，不忠而不伤害到两个女人（“Medicine is my lawful wife, literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. It is disorderly but it isn't dull and neither of them loses anything from my infidelity”）。梁智鸿医学、文学之外还要政治。他的政龄尚浅，又逢历史分道之际，进退都考分寸，肯定不能像他在手术台上那么自如。他说他几十年教学行医，到过去这八年才参政，真是梦醒象牙塔。他最近出了一本书，叫Hong Kong in Transition - Medical Myth or Surgical Triumph?，原文是英文，中文是他的助理黄惠芬译的，叫《医者心，看过渡》，明窗出版。梁医生跟我说过他几十年只攻英文，中文不行。这是真话。听说他一天只睡几个钟头，工作量大得很，精神竟那么好，不知道吞的是什么药丸。他的书里有一段话写得非常好笑，说他世代悬壶，乡下的叔公还是跌打名医，高明得可以把鸭脚接驳到鸡的断脚上去；叔公还在就好，香港这只跛脚鸭或许还有一线生机：

My father is a general practitioner. My grand uncle of my village is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner or a“bone setter”or perhaps both. A fairly famous one indeed, I was told. He claimed to have successfully attached a duck foot onto a severed chicken foot. It seems, therefore, natural that I should take up medicine as my career.

书分六章，每一章的文首都引一句隽语，第一章替香港医疗制度把脉，引的是G K Chesterton那句“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem”。第六章则引了狄更斯《双城记》有名的开场白。

（三）

Samuel Johnson说，成功的医生靠三件事：戴高顶黑帽以示权威；大肚皮以示尊严；长痔疮以便流露一脸愁相（“ A successful doctor needs three things. A top hat to give him authority; a paunch to give him dignity, and piles to give him an anxious expression”）。第一、二项梁智鸿没有，第三项我不知道他有没有。可是他的确是一位成功的名医。