Diario de Un Joven Medico (Paperback)

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Before Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) became a full-time writer and author of the classic The Master and Margarita, he was a young doctor treating impoverished rural Russian peasants. His experiences as a country doctor - no electricity, overworked and under supplied - formed the basis of a series ...

from greeniezona

I've had an eye out for a copy of this book for a while, and was quite happy to have discovered this lovely UK copy in a used bookstore. This collection of stories, informed by Bulgakov's own experiences as a young general practitioner in rural Russia in the late 1910s are a long distance from hi...

from starbox

Autobiographical fiction in which Bulgakov recalls his first posting after qualifying as a doctor...to a god-forsaken village, where he is forced to attempt surgical interventions he has never done before, assisted only by a couple of nurses and an orderly. The local people are superstitious and ...

from HadriantheBlind

A set of two short stories, about medical life in the early days of the Soviet Union.The first - actually a collection of even shorter stories, collected together - details the collision of a young doctor, fresh out of medical school, and the crushing responsibilities of being a physician - as we...

from Clara53

I was deeply moved by this story of a young doctor fresh out of medical school who is tossed into the remotest Russian countryside to practice medicine. No surprise that it reads more like real life than fiction, as Bulgakov himself was a young doctor in similar circumstances once. The year is 19...