The writings of different authors can lead to a similar mode; a story of one can be the response or simply can be compared to the others. After reading “The Country Doctor” by Ivan Turgenev, and “A Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka, it can be seen that these two short stories share a similar bond of the portrayal of a Doctor. It can be assumed that Kafka wrote his own version of Turgenev story, “The …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…often mistaken. One thing that isn’t taken into consideration is that there may be an inevitable tension between professional goals and private life. The doctor under pressure, like the ones in both of these stories, loses hope and feels as if the world around him defies his best efforts to be effective, patient, and reasonable, though he understands the divine work is not done by him but by the one above us all, God.