Записки юного врача = Zapiski yonogo vracha = A Country Doctor's Notebook = A Young Doctor's Notebook, Mikhail Bulgakov A Young Doctor's Notebook "A Young Doctor's Notes", also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook, is a short story collection by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The stories were written in the 1920s and inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor in 1916-18, practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk Governorate in revolutionary Russia. Storie...

‘As one year has passed, so will another, and it will be just as rich in surprises as the first one… And so I have to go on dutifully learning.’While we are all watching the world attempt to navigate public health, I decided to pick up this little book about a young doctor plunged into a rural district full of locals distrustful of medicine or doctors in general with a small staff battling against an overflow of patients. This might sound...uncomfortably familiar to *gestures wildly at everythin...

The title of A Country Doctor’s Notebook tells everything about the subject of the book…How does it feel when a young doctor – an absolute greenhorn – just after the university in the capital city finds himself in the sticks where everything depends on him?Where has the world disappeared to today, my birthday? Where, oh where are the electric lights of Moscow? Where are the people, where is the sky? I look out of my windows at nothing but darkness…We are cut off; the nearest kerosene lanterns ar...

If you watched A Young Doctor's Notebook with Daniel Radcliffe and decided to read the original stories (like me), and were expecting a rather comical representation of a Russian hospital tucked away deep in the countryside (like me), you're in for a surprise. That is, while the adaption was very enjoyable, Bulgakov's stories are even better (not that hard to believe, though). They are not particularly funny (which one would expect based on the mini-series), but there is a strong element of trag...

No one likes going to the doctor, even if the doctor is a hunk with the most fabulous cheekbones (like mine), or a hottie with the prettiest ass this side of the donkey sanctuary (like yours). When we look back at the history of medicine, we realise, although (in America) being sick costs money, at least we aren’t having leeches shoved down our pants, amputations sans anaesthesia, or teeth extractions done by nurses. Bulgakov’s short fictions are drawn from his time as a doctor in a provincial b...

Alma Classics edition, translated by Hugh Aplin(James Herriot - animals) + human patients + Russian lit = great stuff.Only days after I'd read about another young early twentieth-century Russian rural doctor, Lydia Kochetkova, in Mikhail Shishkin's essay and story collection Calligraphy Lesson, an online friend recommended this, among other Russian books. It's nice to follow up that sort of conicidence where possible. Young / Country Doctor's Notebook was also made into a TV series quite recentl...

English title: A Young Doctor's Notebook or A Country Doctor's NotebookWavered between 4 or 5 stars, because of course there were some slightly weaker stories in the collection and it could be argued that the stories start to get repetitive, but I think I'm going call it 4.5 stars. It's a solid collection, beautifully written, and touching on important themes in the medical profession.These nine short stories follow the early years in the career of a newly qualified doctor, who is sent to wo

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Written between 1924 and 1927, these short stories are a mile away his most famous novel 'The Master and Margarita', here instead adopting a raw, realistic account of his experiences as a 24 year-old doctor in remote north-west Russia, where he was put in charge of a small hospital and left to get on with it, sometimes in conditions that were dreadful. Isolation is a big thing running through the book, the distance from civilised society weighs heavily on the soul. Alone at night in his study, w...

As a medical student, I am naturally terrified of what I might have to face out in the real world.Well, this book -portraying a young Russian doctor's experience of practice in a small village hospital- confirms that my worst nightmares probably will come true and I'll be faced with every gory scene that I can imagine.Well...we'll just have to see how it goes then

"I am a doctor, thrown straight from the university bench into a far away village, in the beginning of the revolution."¹¹ EXTRA! EXTRA! Now to be translated to a small screen featuring Daniel Radcliffe. And it will be "a new black comedy". I kid you not. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it.Mikhail Bulgakov, the amazing Russian writer of The Master and Margarita fame, was a medical doctor by training. Just like the young protagonist of his semi-autobiographical collection of short stor...

This is an utterly inspiring book. There is something that is so splendid about Russian authors. I don't know whether it is the awful weather, perhaps even the politics and the oppressive society but the works on the whole are excellent.I'm presuming that this book of nine short stories is autobiographical as Mikhail Bulgakov was actually a doctor but gave up the practice after four years at the age of twenty-nine to embrace a life of literature.The nine short stories are dark, chilling weather

I absolutely loved it. Gosh, I could have more stories with the same characters! It was too short.

A Young Doctor's Notebook is a wonderful suite of short stories following a recently graduated doctor as he tackles various medical conditions afflicting the peasants of Russia. That is to say the peasants within his particular domain. Each story is wonderfully sharp and pointed look at the ways in which this particular doctor tackles the issues he is confronted with, each one told from his sardonic and often flabbergasted perspective. There is a hint of irony and humour in how our narrator disc...

3.5 starsFor anyone that have read The Master and Margarita the foreword makes it clear that this collection of stories are in a different genre, more realistic, more down to earth and a book that the author was never able to publish in his lifetime.The foreword also makes it clear that this book is much more autobiographical than what you would assume at first glance. The author was also a doctor, posted to some god forsaken outpost in Russia where it feels like perpetual winter, he was also co...

Part fiction, part memoir, this anthology of stories, gives the reader a peek into a young doctor's mind and initial years of life, who is skeptical about his capabilities in the profession.The horrors varied patients unleash upon his soul has him biting his nails at every other medical case that knocks upon his door, but how the same horrors also aid him in transforming into the most revered medical practitioner of the town, amidst people as ignorant as kids, here's why - “Doctor!’ she exclaime...

I cannot imagine, at age 24, being faced with a woman having a difficult labor and having to do something to prevent the death of the mother and the baby. (And can even less imagine being the mother, looking at this greenhorn and thinking, "This is the guy they send to save me?") Or having to amputate the leg of a 14-year-old girl maimed in a farming accident. And to face these difficulties in a remote, snowy village in the days before the internet or even telephones? Yikes.That said, there was

An excellent, albeit too short collection of both real and embellished tales of Bulgakov's (often utterly hilarious) trials and travails as a country doctor. As a nurse, it was particularly enjoyable to read about his neuroses about his inexperience as a doctor and fear of being confronted with a difficult case. His country experiences were certainly wild, with sleigh rides through blizzards chased by wolves and more. Near the end there were two stories of a particular more somber nature; one of...

Like many another I came to A Country Doctor's Notebook Paperback by Mikhail Bulgakov having read his classic The Master and Margarita and having watched the first season of the Television series loosely based on Notebook. To my surprise I read a much warmer and humane near diary of the life of a doctor in a remote Russian village. Given some of the reviews a few moment on the authors bio may be necessary. Summarized from Wiki: Mikhail Bulgakov was a medical doctor, a playwright and author in th...

I tried reading "The Master and Margarita" quite a while back and had to give up because of the strange style of the author. I'm glad to say that in his short stories about a country doctor Mikhail Bulgakov prevails, at least in my eyes, as a true talent. The gritty descriptions of a doctor's life in the middle of nowhere that span the first 80% of this books are just masterfully written and so eerily enjoyable. I did not find the chapter about Morphine as enticing though and the finishing story...