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The world is a big hospital where we always treat by groping
“To tell you everything about medicine experienced on a daily basis, where nightmare is more frequent than victory, a century ago like this morning”: this is the words of Vikenti Veressayev in his Notes of a Doctor, popular with the Russian public ( and Tolstoy and Chekhov in unison) but arousing the fury of some of his colleagues. Sometimes implacable accuser, and sometimes defender of the inevitable risky practices of medicine, constantly torn by doubt and the limits of his own competence, horrified by the charlatanism and the haughtiness of some, as well as by the omertà of the environment, the The author leaves, as a sensitive writer, a testimony of exceptional honesty, which rhymes with humanity…
Jean-Louis Kuffer
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