A Young Doctor's Notebook

Moscow, 1934.

They say happiness is like good health.

You don't notice it until it's gone.

Me...

I was happy in 1917.

I had just graduated from the University Imperial Medicine and Dentistry of Moscow,

when I was sent in the remote village of Muryovo to run a hospital

It was a long and arduous journey.

This journey takes long to get used to.

It's better now we have the road.

This is a road?

- Is that the hospital? - Yeah.

Farewell to Moscow,

Farewell to the red and gold Bolshoi theatre.

Farewell to...

shop windows.

Can you take me a little further?

Thank you.

A Young Doctor's Notebook. Part 1.

Based on The Short Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Translation: Deluce, CapricornS, Saam-Hab, tekkichan.

Anna!

The doctor ... the doctor ...

I'm sorry the doctor isn't here yet.

But Felcher can help you if it's nothing too complicated.

No, no, no, I'm, I'm the doctor.

I am the doctor.

I am the doctor.

Forgive me it's just that ...

the old doctor had a beard.

By "old" I mean the one before you.

Leopol'd...

Leopol'dovic.

He's quite a...

Well, no... I mean...

Sorry I shaved last week.

No I mean...

yesterday.

No wonder you're cold. What kind of coat do you call this.

- I don't know... - Forgive me Doctor.

Glad to have you here.

Really, very glad to have you here.

So glad.

But Moscow... Ah!

Dear, dear Moscow you must tell me everything.

Oh, yes so you...

you know Moscow?

No.

You must tell me everything.

Doctor this is Pelageya,

our junior midwife.

Do not let her distract you.

Oh, no.

No, no, I...

won't.

But he looks like a student.

Well, yes.

That's because I was a medical student but I just gratuated.

And...

top of the class as well.

Fifteen 'fives'

Unprecedented.

So you're in safe hands.

Would the...

doctor care for a tour of the hospital now?

Yes... I think the doctor would.

Lead on and the doctor will follow.

So what's the... what's the capacity in here?

Thirty-five? Forty patients at a pinch?

Leopol'd Leopol'dovic would often have fifty in.

Would he?

Would he?

Oh... you have a marvelous stock of instruments.

Indeed, Sir.

It is all through the efforts of your predecessor...

- Leopol'd Leopol'dovic. - Is it.

- Is it. - He was in theater from dawn 'till dusk.

Was he?

Was he?

Bloody balance.

Wow ... look at this stuff!

En garde!

- Carefull! You could take an eye out! - No.

That's what this is for!

Oh that's right, this is all new for you, isn't it?

Is this...

an amputation saw?

A blunt amputation saw.

You have to very hard to cut through anything with that.

Watch out for the hot water tap.

It's lethal.

I must have hit my head on this a million times.

Yeah... I saw a lot of horror and tragedy in here.

Happy days.

Come along, doctor. Must you dawdle.

This is the dispensary.

Excellent

To the sweet shop.

Do I really used to look like that?

Leopold Leopoldovic insisted,

on a well stocked dispensary.

Did he?

I like him...

This is the key...

don't lose it.

Thank you.

Certainly insisted on a lot of black ointment, the old doctor.

You must be tired, doctor after such a long and argues journey.

Come, I show you the consulting room.

And then it's bedtime.

I only meant the...

it is a lot of black ointment.

Syphilis man, are you?

Yes, I mean, I suppose, I take an interest...

Not that I...

Not that I have syphilis, obviously

That certain wouldn't be...

- the first thing I mentioned to you about... - Stop talking.

Thank you

Here we are

Ah.. another portrait

Self portait

Leopold Leopoldovic was as prolific artist

This magnificent and extensive library .. Don't tell me ..

Leopold Leopoldovic?

- Yes. - It's very impressive.

I am certainly not going to be bored of an evening

Oh Yes, we do have a lot of fun here

Only last month I heard a very amusing anecdote

Well, I have finished the mattress

And that is all the hay the horse can spare

Fortunately for you we had to shoot the other horse

Thank you

For the mattress.. not for shooting the other ..

I am sure that is absolutely fine

At this point i could probably sleep on the floor

Oh its quite ..eh..

Oh its good, its got quite a lot of give

Good night doctor, I've put water in the jug

You will remember to brush your teeth?

Yes

Yes.. well .. good night

And thank you

Doctor

Now that

is a trunk

Yes

Yes it is

You can fit a lot of stuff in it

You really can fit a lot of stuff in it

114 Items to be precise.

Or 127, if you count a pair of socks as two items.

- Which I don't. - No, so you've said.

Feldsher... I really must go to sleep.

Of course.

You should have said.

Have you ever read an atlas?

What? Yes, I suppose I has...

No but you've read an atlas. Actually sat down and read cover to cover.

- No. - Ah!

- We will. - Yes thank you again Felsher and good night.

Not at all, glad to have to company.

It's coming to back to me now how complate nightmare he is.

And Pelageya say I look like a student.

- Well, I need a pair of spectacles. - You have perfect eyesight.

I know but to look older.

I think the boyish gait is more of problem.

- What? - You walk like a adolecent.

I do not.

It lacks authority, it's not your voice.

What's wrong with my...

Perhaps I, I need a beard like...

Leopold

Leopoldovic.

Come on.

It doesn't matter what you like in a operating theatre.

Experience...

that's what counts.

I can't sleep.

I will just listen to that wind howl.

I have missed this slater's.

Well, at least, no one's gonna come out here, not in this weather.

You're right there. It would have to be something very serious.

And complicated.

Like a hernia.

God I'm so sick for that lecture

I knew it would come back and haunt me.

I should never have eaten that mutton, right.

Where is it? What do I do? What do I do?

Insipen.

What the hell is insipen? No one ever sad anything about insipen! What else don't I know I don't know?