A Young Doctor’s Notebook

doesn’t want to stay – she’s gone. And that’s an end to it.

She doesn’t want to stay – she’s gone. And that’s an end to it.

Rodovich and go and see Polyakov. The man is helpless.

Respectfully yours,

Dr Bomgard.

The head doctor’s note in reply:

Respected Vladimir Mikhailovich, do go.

Petrov

The man is helpless.

Respectfully yours,

Dr Bomgard.

The head doctor’s note in reply:

Respected Vladimir Mikhailovich, do go.

Petrov

Clever people have been pointing out for a long time that happiness is like good health: when it’s there, you don’t notice it. But when the years have passed, how you do remember happiness, oh, how you do remember it!

How absurd and terrifying it is to live on earth!

And those ten minutes were more help to me than everything I had read on obstetrics for the state exams, in which I had been awarded a top mark for that very obstetrics

Forty-eight days ago I graduated from the faculty with a distinction, but a distinction is one thing, and a hernia is quite another. I

From fragmentary words, unfinished phrases, hints dropped in passing, I learnt those most essential things that are never in any books