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I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. if your nose hurts, they send you to paris: there's a european specialist there, he treats noses. you go to paris, he examines your nose: i can treat only your right nostril, he says, i don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I Tell You, The Old-fashioned Doctor Who

Fyodor Dostoevsky
I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. if your nose hurts, they send you to paris: there's a european specialist there, he treats noses. you go to paris, he examines your nose: i can treat only your right nostril, he says, i don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.
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