The Surgeon Returns

8 hrs. 9 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Dmitry Pravdin

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

This book is by one of the best authors in the “Emergency Ward” series—Dmitry Pravdin, a St. Petersburg surgeon who often leaves to work in small rural hospitals.

Tales in the spirit of dark humor—so popular these days—are a terrible, funny, and very, very familiar reality. Surgeon Pravdin applies irony to both himself and his beloved patients.

My most recent on-duty shift before my vacation is in its final phase. I have almost three hours left. When the small hour hand on the clock reaches the number 9, the shift officially ends. After that, everything is as usual, according to the routine of an ordinary workday: a surgical conference, reports, discussion of the patients admitted and the operations performed. Then there’s a round through the ICU with the leading figures there, and a discussion of the severe cases in our department—patients I, as the responsible surgeon, observed during the evening and night hours.

Meanwhile, the hour hand could just as well run on to 10 or 11… but what can be done? A surgeon must come to work on time, and leave whenever he can. And the senior surgeon of the team—him with all his countless reports and rounds—even if there isn’t a drawn-out operation, always stays an extra hour, sometimes more.