person
Popov
also: Попов
An invented doctor who, at a sick man's bedside, debates "conservative method" and "regimen" with his colleague Miller in language that doubles as coded political talk.
Reading notes
- At the Bedside of the Sick Man §16 a man in service
"Служащий" -- a salaried official or civil servant; the sick man's terror is not medical but professional and political, the fear of a state employee that loose talk overheard by servants or passersby could cost him his post.