Nearly finished?

差不多了吗
Yes... I just have to...

对只要再...
Cigarettes?

抽支烟吗
Yes.

没错
I kept the poor man's tooth and jaw bone as a reminder

我把那人连着牙床骨的牙齿保存了下来
of the day a naive but promising young medical student

作为自己从一个天真前途无量的医科生
became a doctor.

成为一位年轻医生的标志
Too boring. Too sentimental

太无趣太感性了
Just stick to the facts.

还是照说事实吧
I had not long graduated from the

我刚以班上最优成绩
Imperial Moscow University of Medicine and Dentistry, top of the class,

从莫斯科帝国医学及牙科大学毕业
when I was sent to the remote village of Muryovo to run a hospital.

就被派到偏远的莫里耶瓦管理一家医院