"Doctor's Voice 1" embodies a fragment of the country doctor's splintered psyche. Manifesting solely as vocal expression, it externalizes aspects of his consciousness during crises. This voice articulates thoughts the doctor consciously suppresses, distinct from his spoken words or deeper subconscious thoughts voiced elsewhere. Throughout the surreal journey and medical examination, it conveys suppressed anxieties and distractions, especially guilt over abandoning Rosa to the predatory groom. It reflects his deteriorating mental state as events escalate, including discovering the patient's fatal wound and enduring humiliation by the villagers. The voice persists through his ordeal, mirroring his powerlessness and existential turmoil until the final, doomed journey across the wintry landscape. It exists solely within this vocal role.