A Young Doctor's Notebook
This comedy drama follows a young medical graduate's turbulent and brutal introduction to his practice - narrated by his older, more experienced self - as he begins his new life in a small, backwards Russian village.
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Episode 1
Russia, 1917. Straight out of medical school, a young doctor is sent to a remote village in the middle of nowhere to run a small hospital.
EPISODE 1 • 24m
Episode 2
Slowly but surely, the young doctor abandons his dreams. His ambition to make medical discoveries is thwarted as his effort to fight a syphilis epidemic falters in the face of uneducated, hostile peasants.
EPISODE 2 • 22m
Episode 3
In spite of his success in the operating room, life in the snow-bound hospital begins to take its toll on the young doctor. Nursing abdominal pains and two harrowing cases, the young doctor is tempted by the allure of morphine…
EPISODE 3 • 24m
Episode 4
Balancing a heavy workload with a developing morphine habit, the young doctor finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his addiction from his colleagues.
EPISODE 4 • 25m