Well, torches are passed, and the knowledge transmitted- and here the word ‘torch’ was used for ‘knowledge’. In olden days they would have taught him that bit of info in medical school, and nowadays they do not. BTW, everyone else present there laughed uncontrollably, for all of us imagined the same situation with future doctor dispensing this very bit of an advice. I even had to give him a xerox copy of Aristotle’s page, with the paragraph of interest highlighted.
The kids in the classroom may be dazzled by your boundless ego and your ceaseless pretentiousness, but the rest of us already BS'ed our way through your class, got the grade we needed, and moved on to real life.
I don't care about your classroom antidotes, your reading list, your godless enlightenment or your twisted rationalization of the practicalities of barbarism. You're a ghoul. A ghoul with a few degrees and tenure, perhaps. But a ghoul, all the same.