Bioethics Discussion Blog: A Doctor's Visit

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Thursday, July 08, 2004

A Doctor's Visit

An excellent example of a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship but in this case not an office visit but a housecall is found in the Anton Checkhov story
A Doctor's Visit.

"The Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs' factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently the owner of the factory, was ill, and that was all that one could make out of the long, incoherent telegram. And the Professor did not go himself, but sent instead his assistant, Korolyov. ..."

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