Doctor's Notebook Research Articles

Transformative experiences and A Young Doctor's Notebook

Can the decision to become a physician ever be a truly rational choice? According to philosopher L A Paul, the answer is more complicated than it may seem. In her book Transformative Experience, Paul argues that when we make consequential decisions, we are limited by our inability to know what that experience will be like in advance. For Paul, a transformative experience is one that has this characteristic and is also likely to radically reshape our future point of view. The decision to undergo a transformative experience amounts to a philosopher's dilemma, because the person choosing the experience and the person who will emerge on the other side of it are not one and the same.

BJGP Library: A Country Doctor's Notebook: A Lone Soldier of Reason.

A Country Doctor’s Notebook Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage Classics, 2010, PB, 160pp, £7.99, 978-0099529569 I doubt whether A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was on the reading list I received between my A levels and starting my medical studies. Several of its chapters were published in Russian magazines in the 1920s, but they were not collated until the 1960s, and the book was translated into English in 1975 (published in the UK by Collins & Harvill press), so it had not long been available. It’s a career too late now, and perhaps it would have been better to read before applying to medical school anyway. Maybe not, though. Some of its power resides in resonances and contrasts with the life I have lived. It would have made a worthy alternative to The Citadel by AJ Cronin, …

Mikhail Bulgakov: a critical biography

Preface Abbreviations Transliteration Dates List of illustrations Introduction 1. Legendary times and extraordinary adventures: the formative years 2. A calling without distinction: journalism, jottings and Notes on Shirt-cuffs 3. When empires fall: Diaboliada and Heart of a Dog 4. The heavenly city: The White Guard 5. A dramatic debut: The Days of the Turbins and Zoyka's Apartment 6. Brilliant work: A Country Doctor's Notebook 7. The race of life: Flight 8. The tinselled mantle: Crimson Island, 'The Engineer's Hoof', Moliere and the year of catastrophe 9. All in the wrong direction: unperformed plays and unpublished novels 1930-39 10. The sunset novel: The Master and Margarita Conclusion Appendix A: 'Aleksey's Dream' from The White Guard, translated by Michael Glenny Appendix B: Letter from Mikhail Bulgakov of 28 March 1930 to the Soviet Government Notes Select bibliography Index.

Book ReviewThe Three-Legged Stallion and Other Tales from a Doctor's Notebook

Book ReviewThe Three-Legged Stallion and Other Tales from a Doctor's Notebook

The Three-Legged Stallion and Other Tales from a Doctor's Notebook

The Three-Legged Stallion and Other Tales from a Doctor's Notebook

The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor's Notebook

Journal Article The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor's Notebook Get access The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor's Notebook. By Boris Sokoloff. New York, Devin-Adair, 1956. 294 pp. $3.75. Wright W. Miller Wright W. Miller Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 1957, Pages 505–506, https://doi.org/10.2307/2606919 Published: 01 October 1957

A Family Doctor's Notebook

A Family Doctor's Notebook