Which lines in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Ilyich reflects the authors opinion that the members of the medical profession don't really care about their patients?

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PART OF THE QUESTION! Peter went to the door, but Ivan Ilyich dreaded being left alone. "How can I keep him here? *Oh yes, my medicine." "Peter, give me my medicine." "Why not? Perhaps it may still do some good." He took a spoonful and swallowed it.* "No, it won't help. *It's all tomfoolery, all deception," he decided as soon as he became aware of the familiar, sickly, hopeless taste.* "No, I can't believe in it any longer. But the pain, why this pain? If it would only cease just for a moment!" And he moaned. Peter turned towards him. "It's all right. Go and fetch me some tea."

*…Her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same.* Just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him-that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this-and she could not now change that attitude.

*"You see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. And above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him-with his legs up."*

She described how he made Gerasim hold his legs up.

*The doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "What's to be done? These sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them."*

Choose one of the lines that are in between two *. Thanks. :)

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