The surgeon's secret.

""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

A proverb of great pith.

An academic debate.

Introduction and variations.

Rules of the game.

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

Another county heard from.

To see the night before.

""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""

""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)

""And let slip the dogs of war.""

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death. King Lear

You can get there from here.

The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.

Whistling in the dark.

Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence. John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case

The unmoved mover.

""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Self-diagnosis.

""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)