Fyodor Dostoevsky
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—Plague doctors had a mixed reputation, with some citizens seeing their presence as a warning to leave the area or that death was near. Especially since in many cases, they were not experienced physicians or surgeons. They even rarely cured patients, instead serving to record death tolls and the number of infected people for demographic purposes—
Today, you saw one of the doctors. He was silently walking through your village while everyone tried to be as far as possible from him