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Sergei Kuzmich Kuryatin
Kuryatin
also: Курятин, Сергей Кузьмич
A fat, blustering feldsher who stands in for the absent doctor at a zemstvo hospital and bungles the extraction of a sexton's tooth twice over, all the while insisting surgery is 'nothing to it.'
Reading notes
- Surgery §2 the feldsher Kuryatin
The self-satisfied, blustering feldsher who runs the district hospital in the doctor's absence -- his bungled tooth extraction is the whole comedy of the story.