Tango anecdote: Alberto Castillo

Inspired by a story Lucio told me last weekend: the story of Alberto Castillo, famous tango singer, actor but also a practicing gynaecologist, until eventually he had to stop:

(…) So in the afternoons, doctor Alberto Salvador De Lucca left his “consulting room for ladies” and ran to the radio to turn into the singer Alberto Castillo. There were complications when in the waiting room of his consulting room there was no more space for so many women, mostly, young. There was an explanation: the singer had an incredible appeal on the weaker sex and as news had spread that he was a gynecologist, those who found out where his consulting room was, run to be treated by him. Castillo remembered the story which revealed the never ending flow of ladies into his consulting room: «Are you ready, madam?», he asked to a patient that was undressing behind a folding screen, and she answered not at all embarrassed: «I am, doctor. And you?»
«Those insinuations did not please much», he confessed, and finally he gave up the medical profession to fully devote himself to singing.
(via todotango.com)