Your correspondent thinks it may be time to call in the doctors to eliminate an alarming condition sweeping Hong Kong.
It's not a renewed case of bird flu, or the Taiwanese enterovirus that has now hit Hong Kong - but it is hitting epidemic proportions.
We call it Inquiry-itis.
This disease involves a chronic predisposition to launching investigations, and strangely its onset seems to have coincided with the opening of the new airport at Chek Lap Kok.
There's the heavyweight investigation launched by Chief Secretary for Administration, Anson Chan Fang On-sang, a separate probe by legislators and, finally, an Ombudsman's inquiry.
No known cure is thought to be available for Inquiry-itis - but reliable sources tell us the best antidote is simple: get it right the first time.
