I had to take my son to the doctor this afternoon regarding a torn ligament.
This doctor, wearing a כיפה שקופה as they say - a transparent kippa (meaning, no kippa), started to put the information in and look at the situation. He stopped and asked my son a question on the parsha. A good question, not just what was so and so's name or who did this or that.
Then, when hearing that the injury had happened right before shabbos, he asked if it was already Shabbos when it happened or if it was before Shabbos. When he heard it was before Shabbos, he breathed a sigh of relief and said that is good because Shabbos protects us, so that would be a problem if it happened on Shabbos.
When he splinted it and explained how that will help it heal, my son asked if it will heal on its own, and the doctor said of course not - Hakadosh Baruch Hu will heal it.
Then, he asked about the Hebrew names of the fingers and explained why the middle one is called the "ama" and how it would have affected Noah building the Ark had he not had his middle finger and not been able to measure an ama, after also explaining that Noah would have worn his tefillin on this finger and because he was a tazaddik he must have kept the Torah's mitzvos, as the Torah preceded Noah because Hashem created the world after looking in the Torah so he already knew about tefillin.
Go to the doctor, a seemingly secular doctor, and get all that Torah and mussar! You can never tell by appearances...
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