A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012)

Name: A Young Doctor's Notebook
Rating: 7.1

TV-MA — Mature Audiences

Rating: 7.1

IMDb

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2012-12-06

Last Air Date: 2013-12-12

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 8

Created By: Kenton Allen

Networks: Sky Arts

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Top Cast

Jon Hamm as Older Doctor
Daniel Radcliffe as Young Doctor
Adam Godley as The Feldsher
Vicki Pepperdine as Anna
Rosie Cavaliero as Pelageya
Tim Steed as NKVD Agent Kirill
Daniel Cerqueira as Vlas
Shaun Pye as Yegorych
Margaret Clunie as Natasha
Charles Edwards as The Colonel

Seasons

None (2012)

In the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2012-12-06)

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.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2012-12-13)

The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2012-12-20)

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...
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2012-12-27)

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.