The Medical Internship: An Impossible Resuscitation
Mihail MihailideBook review, no. 4, 2020
Article DOI: 10.21614/chirurgia.115.4.537
A colleague of mine who, like me, used to vig orously browse through the volumes borrowed from the "Bibliotheque de l'Hotel de Ville" (of Rue de Lobau), pressed for time by the schol arship, saw me heading for the clerk to return mine, got up, rushed towards me, greeted me and said:
"I have an extra ticket for tonight at the Salle Pleyel, the famous Katia Buniatshvili is playing Liszt; more of us are already going, some are doctors, maybe you would like to meet them...You must have heard of the legend of Franz Liszt being the father of our great Carol Davila and the count ess d'Agout, a story that their son neither con firmed nor denied."
I immediately accepted, the hall was on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, a mere block away from the attic where I had rented a room. A smoking being out of the question for me at the time, I just put a bow tie over my white shirt and at the time we agreed upon I entered. The hall was full to the brim. The seats were indeed grouped, mine next to my library buddy.
Katia - in a low cut, bare-shouldered dress, and Andrey Boreyko - an ascending orchestra conductor schooled in Sankt Petersburg both walked on stage. [read more]
"I have an extra ticket for tonight at the Salle Pleyel, the famous Katia Buniatshvili is playing Liszt; more of us are already going, some are doctors, maybe you would like to meet them...You must have heard of the legend of Franz Liszt being the father of our great Carol Davila and the count ess d'Agout, a story that their son neither con firmed nor denied."
I immediately accepted, the hall was on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, a mere block away from the attic where I had rented a room. A smoking being out of the question for me at the time, I just put a bow tie over my white shirt and at the time we agreed upon I entered. The hall was full to the brim. The seats were indeed grouped, mine next to my library buddy.
Katia - in a low cut, bare-shouldered dress, and Andrey Boreyko - an ascending orchestra conductor schooled in Sankt Petersburg both walked on stage. [read more]
