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If you weren't on love with John Singer Sergent already, you will be now.

Couldn't help but laugh in horror reading about the French medical geniuses and their distinct lack of bedside-manner. If they found a patient with an ailment requiring surgery that could bring them waves of glory and "one-up" another, they would perform the procedure. Right there. As in, "whip a scalpel out of the pocket and cut away without consent." Punching the frightened patient to keep them still was common.