“A doctor is the conjunction of a white coat, a stethoscope, and a jargon.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

"Un médico es la conjunción de un guardapolvo, un estetoscópio y una jerga."
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

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Argentine novelist 1914–1999

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