"A Doctor's Visit" (Russian: Случай из практики, romanized: Sluchai iz praktiki) is an 1898 short story by Anton Chekhov, also translated as "A Case History".

[1] Korolyov, a young doctor, visits the house of Lyalikov, a recently deceased factory owner, to attend to the heiress, twenty-year old Liza, who has heart problems.

Korolyov finds nothing serious with Liza, her tachyarrhythmia caused, apparently, by anxiety, related to the feelings similar to those he himself has been overpowered with.

" The story was lauded by Ivan Gorbunov-Posadov (in a private, 24 January 1899 letter), Alexander Skabichevsky in Syn Otechestva[2] and Angel Bogdanovich in Mir Bozhy,[3] the latter two praising the narrative for being highly 'informative'.

Ivanov) saw the story as marking the process of Chekhov's swift transformation from "the recent cool observer into a man with an aching, suffering heart.