| Abstract | | The article presents author's views on how the profession of a writer (e.g. priest, lawyer, physician) affects his or her literary confession. With regard to their perception and portraying of the world, he groups medical writers into three categories: vitalists, who respond to pain and suffering with potentiated cheerfulness and erotics, pessimists, who paint their literary world with the skepticism, cynism and fatalism, and the group of authors who introduce humanistic ideas and moral obligations in their literary works.
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