“Surgery” is a short story by Chekhov, in which medicine and half-educated doctors who imagine themselves to be professional healers are ridiculed.
(240 words) The action takes place in the Zemstvo hospital. The doctor left to marry, and instead he was appointed medical assistant Kuryatin. His patient was the clerk Vonmiglasov, a pious man whose tooth ached so badly that he could neither drink tea nor sing in the liturgy. At first, he tried to be treated with folk methods: he applied vodka with horseradish, wore a charmed thread on his hand. But nothing helped. And the clerk went to the doctor.
At first, the patient praises the skills of the doctor, speaks of the high prescription of doctors to heal the poor patients. And Kuryatin himself, with false pretense, discusses the peculiarities of tooth extraction with different tools and talks about the operation he performed on the landowner of Egypt, who seems to be very pleased with the treatment.
But when the medical assistant begins to pull out the tooth, the mood of the clerk changes dramatically: Kuryatin pulls the tooth so painfully and for so long that the patient begins to cry and scream in pain. Suddenly, the forceps used by the doctor to slide off the tooth, and the patient, feeling the gums, realizes that all his torment was in vain - the diseased tooth still remained in place.
Angry and cursing, the patient agrees to a second attempt to remove the tooth. The paramedic still continues to discuss the complexity of surgery (“Surgery, brother, not a joke”), pulls a tooth with forceps and breaks it in the middle. Recollecting himself from a pain shock, the deacon "sticks his fingers in his mouth" and finds two fragments instead of one diseased tooth. Calling the doctor a “lousy devil” and cursing all the medicine, the patient leaves, and Kuryatin, continuing to recall his successful operation on Mr. Egyptian, quietly scolds the clerk who did not appreciate his “professionalism” on his merits: “Ignorant ... Little you were treated with a birch birch ... ".
