|Keywords||Art of Medicine, History of Medicine,
Professionalism| A doctor sleeps in a sitting position,
ensconced in an enclave next to what appears to be a hearth. His
head rests against comfortable cushions and he is fully clothed.
A demonic figure replete with teeth, claws, and wings occupies
the upper right-hand corner of the frame and holds an accordion-
style fan behind the doctor’s ear. In the painting’s foreground,
a nude woman faces her body forward towards the viewer but turns
her head to look at the doctor. Her right arm extends her hand,
which points lazily to the hearth. A garment that covers her
genitalia is draped over her outstretched arm. At the base of
the image, a winged cherub plays on homemade stilts. He does not
appear to interact with the other figures in the print. The
Temptation of the Doctor, sometimes referred to as "The Dream of
the Doctor," is a representative depiction of idleness. The
languorous doctor who sleeps so comfortably against his soft
pillow does so fully dressed, impl