Respuesta :
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.
Answer: 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."
Explanation: The lines from this excerpt from "The Death Of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy that best reflect the author's opinion that the members of the medical profession don't really care about their patients are stated above. The author does not believe that doctors care about their patients. The smile of contemptuous affability of the doctor shows his attitude toward his patients' sufferings. It is a contemptuous affability showing no respect.