Chief complaint: "He predicts earthquakes".

So we did what we usually do, approach understanding clumsily, not knowing if such a complaint could ever be resolved, or how, or to whose satisfaction, or the child’s wishes, with so little help to offer, recording an uncertain prognosis, so awkward to translate, entering the clinical elements anyway, using terms that burnish our bronzed mode of medical thinking, closing our eyes, trying to comprehend his vision, or the way his world might move.