Notes of a young doctor short description. Baptism by turning. Episode "Steel Throat"

"Notes of a young doctor" - a cycle of stories by M.A. Bulgakov. The title is given by analogy with the “Doctor's Notes” (1901) by V. V. Veresaev; preliminary versions of the title: "Sketches of a Zemstvo Doctor", "Notes of a Zemstvo Doctor". The idea (and possibly the beginning of the work) dates back to 1916-1917, when the future writer served as a doctor in the Smolensk province (the village of Nikolskoye, Sychevsky district, then Vyazma). The stories of the cycle were published separately for the first time. All together (with the exception of "Star Rash") first published as a separate edition in 1963; Completely in 1989

Bulgakov's plans regarding the composition of the cycle are unknown, therefore, when preparing the 1963 edition, the author's intention had to be reconstructed; one of the main problems here is the order of the stories: they were arranged according to the internal chronology of events. At the same time, the question of the place of the story “Star Rush” remains debatable: “The time of action places this story approximately after the“ Egyptian Darkness ”, however, the time of the narrator<...>provides a basis for concluding a cycle with them ”(M. Chudakova). Despite the fact that the compilers of the first volume of the Collected Works of M.A. Bulgakov (1989) preferred the second option, the first one seems to be more correct: the internal logic of the Notes of a Young Doctor is based on the image of an annual circle (by the way, Bulgakov’s service in the Nikolskaya hospital lasted almost exactly a year), so it is logical that at the end of the book there should be the story "The Missing Eye", in which the motif of "anniversary", "anniversary" sounds - in this sense it echoes the opening story "Towel with a rooster". As for "Starburst", here the narrator says that he graduated from the university "six months ago": this evokes more associations with the middle of the annual cycle, so a more natural place for this story is in the middle of the book.

The beginning of the action of "Notes ...", in comparison with the real facts, is shifted by a year - the moment the young doctor arrived at the hospital was not assigned to September 1916, but to September "1917 an unforgettable year»; at the same time, there are no echoes of revolutionary events in the Notes, although there is a bifurcation of the narrator due to the time distance: looking at 1917 “from the future”, he focuses exclusively on the medical aspects of events. This does not mean that Bulgakov's book is devoid of socio-psychological problems; on the contrary, due to the demonstrative “ignorance” by the author of social cataclysms, the impression of the immobility of the dark peasant mass is intensified.

If V.V. Veresaev in his Notes of a Doctor, denying the individual efforts of the intellectuals-“enlighteners”, called on them to unite (in fact, to participate in the preparation of the revolution), then in Bulgakov’s book the position of the hero-intellectual looks completely unpromising. Growing up, gaining professional experience and making extreme situations almost miracles, the young doctor nevertheless cannot get rid of the feeling that he is in a mysterious, incomprehensible world, which only at first glance seems ordinary and familiar. It is no coincidence that in "Notes ..." (as, indeed, in many other works of the writer), the motive of sleep plays such an important role, which ends most of the stories in the cycle: on the one hand, the image of a dream enhances the sense of narrative distance, on the other hand, it gives real events of the past the nature of visions, fantasies.

Bulgakov's story "Morphine" adjoins the cycle "Notes of a Young Doctor". The image of the young doctor here receives a double incarnation (Bomgard - Polyakov), denoting for Bulgakov two options for his own fate; it is not surprising that the story of Polyakov's death, set out in the diary, is experienced by Bomgard as his personal biography and, ten years later, still does not lose interest in the notes. Characteristically, the hero's fruitless attempt to get rid of drug addiction chronologically coincided with the October Revolution. The exact indication of the time of the story's creation - "1927 Autumn" - introduces a jubilee motif and, thus, contains a hint of the reason that forced Bomgard to re-read and publish the notes of Polyakov's suicide.

Frame from the film "Morphine" (2008)

Very briefly

The doctor was injected with morphine to relieve acute pain in the abdomen. With her, the pain from the fact that his girlfriend had recently left him also left. He began to inject himself to forget, but got involved, could not get off and committed suicide.

The story is told from the perspective of a young doctor, Vladimir Bomgard.

In the winter of 1917, a young doctor Vladimir Bomgard was transferred from the deaf Gorelovsky district to the hospital of the county town and was appointed head of the children's department.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bomgard - a young doctor who worked as a zemstvo doctor for a year and a half, experienced, sympathetic

For a year and a half, Dr. Bomgard treated a variety of diseases, did complex operations in Spartan conditions, took a difficult birth. Now he was resting, having thrown off the burden of responsibility from his shoulders, he slept peacefully at night, not being afraid that he would be picked up and taken away "into the darkness for danger and inevitability."

Happiness is like health: when it is there, you do not notice it. But when the years pass, how do you remember happiness, oh, how you remember!

Several months have passed. By February 1918, Bomgard had begun to forget "his outlying area", kerosene lamp, snowdrifts and loneliness. Only occasionally, before going to sleep, did he think about the young doctor who now sits in this wilderness instead of him.

By May, Bomgard expected to work out his seniority, return to Moscow and say goodbye to the provinces forever. However, he did not regret that he had to go through such a hard practice in Gorelovo, believing that it made him a "brave man."

One day, Baumgard received a letter written on the letterhead of his old hospital. The place in Gorelovo went to his university friend Sergei Polyakov. He "fell seriously and not well" and asked a friend for help.

Sergey Polyakov - university friend of Dr. Baumgard, gloomy person, prone to migraines and depressions

Bomgard asked the chief doctor for leave, but did not have time to leave - at night Polyakov, who had shot himself from a Browning gun, was brought to the county hospital. He died before handing over his diary to Bomgard. Returning to his room, Bomgard began to read.

Entries in the diary began on January 20, 1917. After being distributed at the institute, the young doctor Polyakov ended up in a remote zemstvo district. This did not upset him - he was glad to escape into the wilderness due to personal drama. Polyakov was in love with an opera singer, lived with her for a whole year, but recently she left him, and he could not survive it.

Together with Polyakov, a married paramedic, who lived with his family in an outbuilding, and midwife Anna, a young woman whose husband was in German captivity, worked at the site.

Anna Kirillovna - midwife, Polyakova's "secret wife", a sweet and intelligent middle-aged woman

On February 15, 1917, Polyakov suddenly developed sharp pains in the stomach area, and Anna was forced to inject him with a portion of a one-percent solution of morphine. After the injection, for the first time in several months, Polyakov slept soundly and deeply, without thinking about the woman who had deceived him.

From that day on, Polyakov began to inject himself with morphine in order to alleviate mental suffering. Anna became his "secret wife". She was very sorry that she had injected him with that very first dose of morphine and begged him to leave this occupation. At moments when Polyakov felt bad without a new dose, he realized that he was playing with fire, and promised himself to stop all this, but after the injection he felt euphoria and forgot about his promise.

Somewhere in the capital, a revolution was raging, the people overthrew Nicholas II, but Polyakov was little worried about these events. On March 10, he began to hallucinate, which he called "double dreams." After these dreams, Polyakov felt "strong and cheerful", he had an interest in work, he did not think about his former mistress and was absolutely calm.

Considering that morphine had a beneficial effect on him, Polyakov was not going to refuse him and quarreled with Anna, who did not want to prepare new portions of morphine solution for him, and he himself did not know how to cook it, since this was part of the duties of a paramedic.

Indeed, morphium hidrochloricum is a formidable thing. The habit is formed very quickly. But a little habit is not morphinism...

In April, the morphine supply at the site began to run low. Polyakov tried to replace it with cocaine and felt very ill. On April thirteenth, he finally admitted that he had become a morphine addict.

By May 6, Polyakov was already injecting himself with two syringes of a three percent solution of morphine twice a day. After the injection, it still seemed to him that nothing terrible was happening, and his dependence did not affect his performance, but, on the contrary, increased it. Polyakov had to go to the county town and get more morphine there. Soon he began to embrace the anxious and dreary state characteristic of morphine addicts.

Death from thirst is heavenly, a blissful death compared to the thirst for morphine.

Polyakov's dose increased to three syringes.

After the entry, dated May 18, two dozen pages were cut out of the notebook. Polyakov made the next entry on November 14, 1917. During this period, he tried to be treated and spent some time in a Moscow psychiatric clinic.

Taking advantage of the shooting that began in Moscow, Polyakov stole morphine from the clinic and fled. The next day, having revived from the injection, he returned to give the hospital gown. The psychiatrist professor did not forcibly keep Polyakov, confident that sooner or later he would end up in the clinic again, but in a much worse condition. The professor even agreed not to report anything to his place of service.

On the eighteenth of November, Polyakov was already "back in the wilderness." He was weak and emaciated, walked, leaning on a cane, he was haunted by hallucinations. The percentage of morphine in the solution increased, vomiting began. The paramedic guessed everything, and Anna, who was caring for Polyakov, begged him to leave.

On December 27, Polyakov was transferred to the Gorelovsky district. He firmly decided to take a vacation from the first of January and return to the Moscow clinic, but then he realized that he would not survive the treatment and did not want to part with his "crystalline soluble god."

Now, twice a day, he injected himself with three syringes of a four percent solution of morphine. From time to time Polyakov tried to abstain, but he did not succeed well. Morphine was brought by Anna. Because of the injections, non-healing abscesses appeared on Polyakov's forearms and thighs, and visions drove him crazy.

On February 11, Polyakov decided to turn to Bomgard for help and sent him a letter. Entries in the diary became jerky, confused, with numerous abbreviations. On February 13, 1918, after a fourteen-hour abstinence, Polyakov left the last entry in his diary and shot himself.

In 1922, Anna died of typhus. In 1927, Baumgard decided to publish Polyakov's diary, believing that his notes would be useful and instructive.

"NOTES OF A YOUNG DOCTOR"

A cycle consisting of the stories "Towel with a Rooster", "Baptism by a Turn", "Steel Throat", "Blizzard", "Egyptian Darkness", "Missing Eye" and "Star Rash". All these stories in 1925-1926. were published in the Moscow magazine "Medical Worker", as well as ("Steel Throat") in the Leningrad magazine "Red Panorama". When published, all but two of them were subtitled "Notes of a Young Doctor", or the same footnote. There is a footnote to the story “Egyptian Darkness”: “From the book “Notes of a Young Doctor”, which is being prepared for publication”, however, the book was never published during Bulgakov’s lifetime. In the story "Steel Throat" the subtitle was different: "The Young Doctor's Tale", and the story "Star Rash" had no subtitles and notes at all, relating it to any cycle or book. For the first time 3. Yu. V. in the form of a cycle came out in 1963 in the Ogonyok Library (No. 23) without the story Star Rash (obviously, as it does not have direct indications of belonging to the 3rd century), with the title “Steel Throat” changed to "Silver Throat" and dating events from 1917 to 1916, possibly for censorship reasons, as well as to artificially approximate the time of action with the time of Bulgakov's arrival in the village of Nikolskoye, Sychevsky district, Smolensk province as a zemstvo doctor. By 3. ju. V. adjoins the story (or story) "Morphine", published in the "Medical worker" in 1927, but most researchers do not include this story in the cycle, since not only did it not have any indication of belonging to 3. y. V. when published, but also quite different from the stories of the cycle in form and content. Here, the main part is not a direct narration on behalf of a young doctor, but the diary of such a doctor, Dr. Polyakov, which, after his suicide, is read by Polyakov's friend from the university, Dr. Bomgard. Unlike the hero-author in 3. Yu. V. main character"Morphine" Polyakov is defeated in the fight against his illness - morphinism and dies. Obviously, "Morphine" was conceived by Bulgakov as a separate work, outside the cycle of 3. y. century, although on common autobiographical material with him.

In the preface to the failed second edition of 3. Yu. V. the sister of the writer N. A. Bulgakov (Zemskaya) noted:

“A native of a large cultural city, who loves and knows art, a great connoisseur and connoisseur of music and literature, and as a doctor prone to research laboratory and office work, Mikhail Bulgakov, once in a remote village, in a completely unusual environment for him, began to do his difficult work as dictated to him by his inner feeling, his medical conscience. Medical duty - that's what primarily determines his attitude towards patients. He treats them with a truly human feeling. He deeply pities the suffering person and ardently wants to help him, no matter what it costs him personally. He pities the little choking Lidka (“Steel Throat”), and the girl who got into the pulp (“Towel with a Rooster”), and the woman in labor who did not reach the hospital and gives birth in the bushes by the river, and stupid women who speak about their illnesses in completely incomprehensible words (“Missing Eye”: “...learned to understand such woman’s speeches that no one will understand”), and all, all of his patients.

He writes about this without excessive recitation, without pompous phrases about the doctor's duty, without unnecessary lectures.

He is not afraid to talk about how difficult it is for him.

In the life of Mich. Bulgakov was sharply observant, impetuous, resourceful and courageous, he had an outstanding memory. These qualities also define him as a doctor, they helped him in his medical activities. He made diagnoses quickly, he knew how to immediately grasp character traits diseases; rarely misdiagnosed. Courage helped him decide on difficult operations.

In 3. y. V. many genuine cases of Bulgakov’s medical activity are displayed during his work in the zemstvo hospital in the village of Nikolskoye, Sychevsky district, Smolensk province in the period from September 1916 to September 1917. He was sent there for mobilization as unfit for military service militia warrior of the 2nd category to fill the vacancy of a zemstvo doctor. From September 20, 1917 until February 1918, Bulgakov continued to serve in the zemstvo city hospital of Vyazma in the same Smolensk province, but this period was reflected only in the framing story of Dr. Bomgard in Morphia, where the main part - the diary of Dr. Polyakov - is also connected with the experience of working in Nikolskoye, named here by Gorelov. On September 18, 1917, the Sychevsk Zemstvo Administration, in connection with the transfer to Vyazma, issued Bulgakov a certificate with a detailed description of his work in Nikolsky: The doctor who was in charge of the Nikolskaya Zemstvo Hospital, for which time he has established himself as an energetic and tireless worker in the Zemstvo field. At the same time, according to the information available in the Administration, in the Nikolsky district, 211 people used inpatient treatment during the specified time, and there were 15361 outpatient visits.

The operational activities of the doctor M. A. Bulgakov during his stay at the Nikolskaya Zemstvo Hospital were as follows: operations were performed - amputation of the thigh 1, removal of toes 3, curettage of the uterus 18, circumcision foreskin 4, obstetrical forceps 2, pedicle rotation 3, manual removal of the afterbirth 1, removal of atheroma and lipoma 2 and tracheotomy 1; in addition, the following were performed: stitching of wounds, opening of abscesses and festering atheromas, punctures of the abdomen (2), reduction of dislocations; once, fragments of crushed ribs were removed under chloroform anesthesia after a gunshot wound.

Many of the mentioned operations were reflected in 3. Yu. in .: amputation of the thigh (“Towel with a rooster”), turning the fetus on the leg (“Baptism by turning”), tracheotomy (“Steel throat”), etc. In 3. y. V. the protagonist is younger than Bulgakov, although the action is shifted by a year compared to Bulgakov's biography: the young doctor arrives in the village in September 1917, and not in September 1916, as was the case with Bulgakov. In "Steel Throat" the main character is 24 years old, while by the time of arrival in Nikolskoye the author is 3. Yu. V. was already 25 years old. However, young age does not prevent the hero of the cycle from successfully overcoming all obstacles and successfully fulfilling his mission. The fact that Bulgakov himself was a really good doctor is also confirmed by the first wife of the writer T. N. Lappa, who was next to him both in Nikolskoye and in Vyazma: “He made wonderful diagnoses. Well orientated." So there is no idealization of reality here, despite the fact that the harsh rural reality is given in 3. Yu. V. without any embellishment. 3. Yu. V. were focused on Notes of a Doctor (1901) by Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (Smidovich) (1867-1945), with whom Bulgakov later had a chance to get close, make friends and even co-author the play Alexander Pushkin. Bulgakov's young doctor is different from that of Veresa. He, unlike the hero of the "Doctor's Notes", practically does not know failures. Veresaev wrote his book at a time when he was close to the Marxists. It seemed to him that "new people came, cheerful, believing, who found happiness not in sacrifice, but in struggle." Bulgakov 3. Yu. V. wrote when just had to reap the fruits of this struggle. For the author of The Doctor's Notes, "the only way out is in the consciousness that we are only a small part of one huge, inseparable whole, that only in the fate and success of this whole can we see our personal destiny and success." For the author and the protagonist 3. Yu. V. first of all, his own professional success is important, and he thinks of the struggle not alone, but in unity with fellow doctors, and not with some amorphous and grandiose whole. The young doctor, as he sees it in Egyptian Darkness, is always with his "army" - paramedics and nurses, and, perhaps more broadly, with the "squad of doctors." Author 3. Yu. V. asserted the strength of the personal feat of an intellectual, bringing help to the suffering and enlightening the people, while Veresaev in his “Doctor's Notes” sought to demonstrate the impotence of a loner, without merging with the mass.

First edition 3. Yu. V. created in the wake of events. According to a friend of Bulgakov’s youth Alexander Petrovich Gdeshinsky (1893-1951) in a letter to N.A. Zemskaya on November 1-13, 1940, Bulgakov read the first edition of the future story “Star Rash” to relatives and friends in Kiev in 1918. It is possible that that early version 3. yu. century, called "Notes of a Zemstvo Doctor", was created during Bulgakov's stay in the Smolensk province. In a letter to cousin Konstantin Petrovich Bulgakov from Vladikavkaz to Moscow on February 16, 1921. Bulgakov mentioned among the manuscripts that remained in Kyiv "Sketches of the Zemsky Doctor" and "Illness" (probably the first edition of "Morphine"). And in a letter to his mother, V. M. Bulgakova, November 17, 1921, the author 3. Yu. V. already from Moscow he reported: “At night I write“ Notes of a Zemstvo doctor. It might turn out to be a solid thing. Processing "Illness". Obviously, after the publication of stories from 3. Yu. V. and "Morphia" Bulgakov destroyed the texts of early editions.

Curious memories of the first readings of 3. Yu. V. in Kiev in 1918, Bulgakov's son-in-law (husband of his sister Varia) L. S. Karum (1888-1968), who served as the prototype of Talberg in The White Guard and Days of the Turbins, left. In the unpublished essay “Woe from Talent: M. A. Bulgakov as a Man and a Writer,” he says: “Having a heritage of fiction, it turns out that he did not come to Kiev empty handed, but brought several stories about his activities as a zemstvo doctor ... After all, the people of his generation and his environment (it is noteworthy that Karum himself, a man of the same generation and environment with Bulgakov, in his declining years preferred to distance himself from this generation. - B.S.) started living twice. For the first time - in the conditions of the old Russian life, they graduated from the gymnasium, the university, started families, served. They remembered about this life, in which there was not only bad, but also good. The second time they began to live from the very beginning, after the revolution. Sometimes they changed their profession, place of residence, specialty, even family. And the first period brought back memories. He has gone into the past.

The stories are original and fresh, revealing the psychology of the doctor. Until that time, the general public knew about the experiences of the doctor only from the works of V. Veresaev “Notes of a Doctor”, but these were notes of a general practitioner. Bulgakov, on the other hand, describes the psyche of a surgeon, and a young one at that. It was new, written with talent."

In the memoir unpublished manuscript “My life. A story without lies ”L. S. Karum left a unique testimony of how they reacted to 3. Yu. V. Kyiv friends of Bulgakov: “In 1918, the Notes made a splash among his friends. In the evenings, Bulgakov retired to the room that served as his office during the reception of patients, and there he read excerpts from the Notes to his enthusiastic listeners. Kolya Sudzilovsky (nephew of L. S. Karum, prototype of Lariosik in The White Guard and Days of the Turbins. - B. S.) once said after reading: “This is amazing, wonderful.” He said that Bulgakov described the case when he had to do a tracheotomy for diphtheria for the first time. Bulgakov was very worried, but, as he says, he performed the operation brilliantly, and the child immediately began to breathe calmly. This clearly refers to an early version of the story "Steel Throat".

In a letter to N. A. Zemskaya dated November 1-13, 1940, A. P. Gdeshinsky noted that in letters from Nikolsky “Misha complained very much about the kulak, callous nature of the natives, who, using his invaluable help as a doctor, refused to selling half a pound of butter when the wife got sick... or something like that." Bulgakov's anti-kulak sentiments are confirmed in his own handwritten testimony during interrogation at the OGPU on September 22, 1926: “I cannot write on peasant topics because I do not like the village. It seems to me much more kulak than it is customary to think. However, in 3. Yu. V. anti-kulak motives are practically absent, and the emphasis is on the need to educate the people. Probably, Bulgakov did not want to have anything to do with the official propaganda that stigmatized the kulaks (although their existence was admitted for the time being). In addition, the writer, as an unknown OGPU informant reported in a report dated February 22, 1928, in a conversation with the Pushkin researcher N. O. Lerner (1877-1934) stated: “War communism or complete freedom is either necessary or again. The coup... should be made by a peasant who finally spoke his real native language. In the end, there are not so many communists ... but tens of millions of offended and indignant peasants. It is possible that these, which later turned out to be untenable, calculations on the peasantry, led to the muting of the kulak features of the villagers in the 3rd Yu. V.

“Notes of a young doctor” refers to the early works of M. A. Bulgakov. The writer has an extraordinary warmth, immediacy and sincerity to the readers. His hero is a self-confident young doctor at first, who gains experience over time and becomes unusually responsible and attentive to patients. Dr. Bomgard hurries to help the sick at any time of the year and weather. He runs to the patients in the slush, and the wind, and the cold, day and night, shows care and love for them, tries to put into practice all his knowledge and skills. It does not matter to him who is sick, the main thing is that a person needs help. He does not consider such an attitude towards people as civil service to the Motherland. The young man understands all the responsibility and importance of his profession, experiences failures and losses. Despite his efforts, the young doctor was unable to help his colleague Polyakov, and the clerk's fiancee was dying before his eyes. The doctor never remains indifferent to the death of his patients.

The young doctor does not try to avoid problems. For him, the worst thing is to become powerless in front of the patient's illness. For this reason, the young man often leafs through textbooks in his office in order to correctly diagnose. He does not strive for career growth, is not proud of his successes, but only feels great joy when saving another patient. The young doctor always listens to the advice of his colleagues. The young man considers himself inoffensive and is very grateful to paramedic Lukich Demyan, as well as to midwives Pelageya Ivanovna and Anna Nikolaevna. It was they who were often side by side, ready to help at any moment, passing on their experience to him. Bomgard sees his associates in his colleagues. Together they alleviate the suffering of patients, help them get rid of the disease. Their calling is to help sick people.

Colleagues feel the benevolence and gratitude of the young doctor and always rush to help him not only with advice, but also with deed. There are times when they are helpless, they cannot cope with the trouble, then all together they try to support one another, they have no accusations, but only goodwill.

The story brought Bulgakov fame, showed him as the most interesting and talented author, who knows the traditions of the classics, who has his own opinion.

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5. The new sufferings of young V. The story begins with several obituary notices about the death from an electric discharge of seventeen-year-old Edgar Vibo. This is followed by a dialogue between the mother and father of the deceased young man. The two separated when their son was only five years old. Since then, the father has not Read More ......
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We present the stories of Mikhail Bulgakov from the cycle "Notes of a Young Doctor" in a brilliant performance by People's Artist of Russia Viktor Rakov. "The Egyptian darkness stretched in a veil ... and it was as if I were in it ... either with a sword, or with a stethoscope. I go ... I fight ... In the wilderness. But not alone. And my army is coming: Demyan Lukich, Anna Nikolaevna, Pelageya Ivanna. All in white coats, and all forward, forward ... " Such a significant dream was a dream of a young doctor - a "knight in a white coat", leading an unequal, but noble battle with diseases and ignorance in the village wilderness. Mikhail Bulgakov's early stories were based on real life circumstances - his service as a zemstvo doctor in the Smolensk province from 1916 to 1920. Towel with a rooster Blizzard Steel throat Egyptian darkness Baptism by turning The missing eye Star rash Directed by Alexey Rymov. Musical arrangement - Pavel Usanov. Sound engineers - Nadezhda Degtyareva and Elena Ryzhikova. Producer - Sergey Grigoryan.

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"Notes of a young doctor" - plot

Rooster Towel. A young inexperienced doctor arrives at his site in the village. After getting to know the hospital staff, he will face the first serious test - the amputation of the leg of a village girl. Despite the uncertainty and lack of experience of the young doctor, the amputation succeeds brilliantly, the girl remains alive and subsequently gives the doctor a towel with a rooster embroidered on it (hence the title of the story).

"Baptism by Turn". The hero will have to undergo an operation to turn the fetus on the leg during difficult childbirth with a village woman. Thanks to the advice of an experienced midwife, the doctor succeeds in this operation as well.

"Steel Throat". A doctor performs a tracheotomy on a little girl with diphtheria. The story reflects the illiteracy and superstition of the village people of that time, who for a long time did not allow the girl to have an operation. After the successful operation and recovery of the girl Lida, rumors spread throughout the villages that the young doctor had inserted a steel one instead of a real throat.

"Snowstorm". It describes a doctor's trip at night in a snowstorm to another village to help the same young doctor, who does not know what to do with a woman who broke her head when she fell from a horse. Due to the late arrival, it is not possible to save the woman - this is the first patient who died with the protagonist.

"Egyptian Darkness" The life and customs of the villagers of that time are described - their illiteracy, superstition, a tendency to trust more local grandmothers-healers than doctors. The main storyline is a story about the miller Khudov, who is ill with malaria and decides to take all the medicines prescribed by the doctor at once, so as not to “roll in one powder a day. Accepted immediately - and the matter is over.

"Missing Eye" The Doctor sums up his year-long stay in the village. The title of the story comes from the story of a child with a huge tumor covering his eye. As it turns out, the unknown tumor is just a huge abscess that developed from the lower eyelid and burst on its own.

"Starburst". The hero begins the fight against syphilis, which has spread throughout the population. The story ends with an appeal to the doctor, who, probably, is now sitting in the place of the protagonist in the village area: “Hello, my friend!”.

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Mariashka_true

"How can a half-corpse live?"

The book is a doubt, the book is a search. Search for new solutions, search for yourself as a talented and skillful doctor. A push for those who do not believe in themselves and constantly doubt. In fact, there is no time to doubt, you need to do your job.

Particularly striking is the part called "Morphine". So accurately describe the agony of attachment to this medicine is worth a lot. It was even creepy to read.

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Vivid life stories that leave after reading a sea of ​​emotions and impressions for a long time.

What are the stories about? About medicine… At first glance, what could be interesting and exciting here? But Bulgakov exceeded all my expectations and really surprised me.

The protagonist of this work is still a very young doctor who came to work in the outback. Behind him there is no experience, but he has a real talent. Now, at a new place of work, he will have to experience all the “charms” of this work. And with it, readers will also have a look at work in medicine. For the first time we have to do a real operation on a living person and feel all the emotions and fear that the main character experiences.

In addition, Bulgakov touches on serious topics in his work that worried people at the beginning of the 20th century, such as illiteracy and distrust of doctors. It is at that difficult time for medicine that our young doctor will have to work and fight for the life of each patient.

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Xenia Black

Confession in the novel

It's always nice to discover new features in your favorite writer that you never bothered to read before. Last year, I pleased myself with a wonderful cycle of Bulgakov's stories (and I am only writing about it now, yes). So, "Notes of a Young Doctor" is a cycle of stories, although if you like it better, you can perceive it as one work, since the characters and the place of events do not change from story to story. There are seven stories in total in the cycle, sometimes the story "Morphine" and the story "I killed" are included in the same cycle, but I will not drag them into my story :) The "Notes" are largely autobiographical, their main character is a young doctor who Moscow University goes straight to the outback, where he is the only doctor in the entire district, where patients are brought to him from all the surrounding villages along broken roads, injuring them even more along the way. When you read these stories, you empathize with the main character so much that you start to hope together with him - if only in this story... on this page... a seriously ill patient is not delivered! and if already delivered - if only he survived! And you share with the young doctor the burden of terrible responsibility for the lives entrusted to him, and just like him, you realize with horror that you simply can’t save a girl crushed by a flax crusher, or an unfortunate woman in labor - only unlike the reader, the hero of the book still gathers his strength, and by touch, almost at random drives away death from his patients. When I started reading this book, after each story, my facial expression became a match for the popular emoticon - o_O. And then O_O. Depending on how the amputation of the leg was described in detail in this story, or the turning of the fetus in the mother's womb, or syphilitic ulcers ... If you are not very fond of such details in literature, it is better not to read the Notes. Here, no Chuck Palahniuk can be compared with Bulgakov :) Well, if your nerves are stronger, read on, because Bulgakov is wonderful in all his guises, and you are guaranteed to enjoy masterfully written stories. For example, I am generally in love with small forms, in them the talent of the writer is seen much more clearly than in epic novels, and the feeling of perfect completeness of thought, combined with the perfection of form - mmm ... It's worth the time spent reading time. P.S. It evokes ambivalent feelings when Bulgakov writes about methods of treatment that are no longer used. Mercury ointment, birth forceps... brrr. Thanks to medicine for moving forward!