Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
The Surgeon Evgueni Vasilievich Pavlov in the Operating Theater, by Ilya Repin, 1888. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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