Doctor's notes

Veresaev's literary debut. An autobiographical book that first saw the light in 1901 - and immediately brought wide fame to the young author. The first steps of a newly minted healer, starting his path in the medical field. Successes and failures. The agonizing fear of making a mistake that could ruin an innocent patient. Stresses. Despair. Pride in successes. Dangerous and morally questionable, but necessary experiments on people in search of new treatment methods. Sensation and scandal - the appearance of female doctors. Russia's eternal woe - the passion for self-treatment and "treatment," as they would say now, with "non-traditional" methods. So what is this life of a young, aspiring doctor? A feat - or a martyr's cross? Veresaev repeatedly asks himself this question - and cannot find an answer to it.