In this chapter, the doctor and the waiter reminisce about their first meeting, when the doctor said he preferred people like the waiter. The waiter reminds the doctor that he still prefers people like him, and the doctor says he'll keep this in mind. The doctor asks the waiter why he's so drunk and why he wants to come back to work at the bar. The bartender replies that the doctor is a "f*cking idiot" , and that he used to be a waiter on the weekends to make extra money for school. He asks the bartender why the doctor even drinks so much, and then asks why he is crawling back into the bar after being a doctor. He says that the only place he knows is in the bar, and he appreciates the hospitality of the bartender. He wonders why the bartender would want to return to the bar when he could have gone to a different school to get his medical degree. He also asks why the medical school isn't a "school of medicine" like a "medical college," and why the surgeon would want a degree like the doctor's. He then asks if the doctor would have wanted to become a doctor for "plaster surgery," which makes more money than surgery, and says that's a profession that doesn't require much experience. He's not a surgeon, he says, but he'd be able to fix the faces of the girls who come in there for him. He wants to fix up their faces for them. He tells the bartender that it's hard to get a degree in medicine, because it takes a "split second" to get to the bottom of the profession. He suggests that the