A writer well-versed in patient care.

摘要

Dr Anton Chekhov graduated from the University of Moscow Medical School in June 1884. Despite rather mediocre grades, young Chekhov received warm evaluations from his preceptors. For example, Dr Pavel Archangelsky, a general practitioner with whom he spent a summer externship, wrote that Chekhov "did everything with attention and man- -ifest love of what he was doing, especially toward the patients who passed through his hands. He listened quietly to them, never raising his voice, however tired he was and even if the patient was talking about things quite irrelevant to his illness."1 And one of his classmates, Grigory Ros-silimo, later wrote, "[Chekhov] collected the elements of the case history with surprising ease and accuracy... He seemed to bowl along effortlessly without forcing himself, in contrast to many students, and even doctors, who find it difficult to relate to ... the unique circumstances of patients' lives.