[Deadpan once more:] The problem is you still have an enormous hole in your side.

[Is it healing? Great. Is it still very open and obvious and doesn't look like it has been attended by anyone? LESS GREAT.]

...I know you have your pride, Viktor. But we need to be able to follow through on the advice we give to others, or all we do is damage what trust we are trying to build.

Would you at least be willing to let me help you look at it yourself, to get you through the night?