TWO PORTRAITS
TWO PORTRAITS

Summary/Abstract: Physicians, beyond being the intellectual elite of the country, have also been a lancet in the literary field. In the case of Romanian practitioners of medicine, more than in other cultures, the explanation of this rare ability that the Hippocrate’s servants resides in the fact they had to withstand through the written page to the vicissitudes of history: "Doctors are traditionally lovers and connoisseurs of literature (which does not mean that everyone is respecting the tradition!). The great cardiologist Leonida Gherasim, and formerly the famous surgeon Dan Setlacec (who, unfortunately, is no longer alive now) spoke to me on various occasions, in full knowledge of the writers of today. They seemed to me even more competent (and demanding) than some literary critics."1Culture people, first of all, the Romanian practitioners of medicine had the rare ability that only a polymath could have, to open up to others areas of human knowledge. The present article is aimed at revealing two strong personalities of both physician and literary men: Eraclie Stetrian and Valeriu Anania.

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