A Young Doctor's Notebook
A Young Doctor's Notebook
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A Young Doctor's Notebook

Summary

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

Status:

Ended

Original Language:

English

Type:

Scripted

Networks:

Sky Arts

Keywords

nurse
winter
drug addiction
dark comedy
morphine
hospital
doctor
period drama
historical
based on short story
withdrawal
told in flashback
russian history
medical drama
1910s
1930s
medical
modern history