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.
WriterMikhail Bulgakov
Episode 1
Dec 6, 2012
A doctor finds his old diary while answering to the authorities about self-prescribing morphine. He has a series of comic exchanges with his young and inexperienced self, mocking him for his youthful looks and guiding him through his early difficulties on the job.
Episode 2
Dec 13, 2012
The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.
Episode 3
Dec 20, 2012
In spite of his success in the operating room, life in the snow-bound hospital begins to take its toll on the young doctor. His efforts to combat his feelings of boredom and isolation are defeated and he wonders how much longer he can last. Nursing abdominal pains and two harrowing cases, the young doctor is tempted by the allure of morphine...
Episode 4
Dec 27, 2012
Balancing a heavy workload with a developing morphine habit, the young doctor finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his burgeoning addiction from his colleagues. After one humiliation too many, he resolves to make a clean start and a dedicated effort to combat the syphilis epidemic. But a blizzard-bound journey to visit a dying patient proves to be his toughest test yet.
Timefox881
@Timefox881
Magnificent! Loaded with atmosphere and a sense of melancholy this show was a pleasure to watch. I was engrossed in the world almost instantly. Daniel Radcliffe showed very good comedic instincts. Walking the fine line between overcooked and manic desperation. More than a few belly laughs to be had along the way. Enjoy your stay in this dark, yet strangely cozy, little hospital in the middle of nowhere. No wait, this is actually further away than the middle of nowhere. You have to take a train to the middle of nowhere to get here.
