Notes of a doctor

Literary debut of Veresaeva. The autobiographical book, which first saw the light in 1901, and immediately brought the young author wide fame. The first steps of a freshly baked Aesculapius, starting its way on the medical field. Good luck and failure. The painful fear of a mistake that can destroy an innocent patient. Stress. Despair. Pride of success. Dangerous and morally dubious, but necessary experiments in public, in search of new methods of treatment. Sensation and scandal-the appearance of female doctors. The eternal disaster of Russia is a passion for self -medication and “treatment”, as they would say now, “non -traditional” methods. What is she still, this life of a young, beginning doctor? A feat - or a martyrdom? Veresaev asks this question again and again - and cannot find an answer to it.