Health

Doctors of the Second Freshness

“The fish was of the second freshness,” lamely explained the barkeeper. “My dearest friend,” responded Maestro Voland in his brassy voice, “you were grievously misinformed by someone. I can assure you, there is no such thing as a fish of the second freshness. Fish freshness as it is could exist in one state and one state only— that is in the first, which is the same as the last and the only one.”  —Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita Why do we have not enough doctors? Good work, good pay, good status, but still—there are not enough of them to go…

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