A Young Doctor's Notebook

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.

Seasons

2

Episodes aired

8

Latest aired

S02E04

Total runtime

3h 4min

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 December 2012 4 episodes
2. Season 2 November 2013 – December 2013 4 episodes

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  S01E01 Episode 1

  December 6 · 23min find the promo

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  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.

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  S01E02 Episode 2

  December 13 · 23min find the promo

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  The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.

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  S01E03 Episode 3

  December 20 · 23min find the promo

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  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...

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  S01E04 Episode 4

  December 27 · 23min find the promo

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  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.