Dec 26, 2009
The narrator introduces Dr. Montarco as a competent physician who is admired and trusted by his patients. The trust begins to waver when it is observed that the doctor is a writer who eschews the composition of medical treatises in favor of writing strange and fanciful fiction. He ignores the objections of his clientele and rejects dissuasion by the narrator. His patients begin to desert him. This happened once before; the doctor, with his wife and two pre-teenage daughters, had to leave his native town when his practice dwindled because of his professional...
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