Hippocrates' Stepsons

8 hrs. 9 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Dayneka

Narrator Tatyana Kornilova

Description

“The stepchildren of Hippocrates” is an expanded, vividly told account of the funny—and often absurd—sometimes tragic everyday work of an “ambulance service.” Built on “urgent” and “speed-aid” anecdotes and folklore, this work goes far beyond ordinary medical-story ribbing and has long become a classic of the “medical” novel genre.

Do you like to have fun and eat well? With appetite—better in the morgue, over “larvae crawling all over the laboratory, rats, and other specimens”? Even better, after “they’ve shipped off some particularly annoying riffraff.”

From patients, quite a lot is taken: “alcohol, all kinds of candies, chocolate, homemade preserves and pickles, pies—I’m not even counting them anymore, just in case. Although, even without all that, it’s no fairy tale anymore—it turns into some kind of denunciation of yourself…”

Want to read about hospital striptease? Please—on the street by the ambulance and in the ward after the shift. (a little slang, a little swearing, and all with humor, right on the edge of the permissible)?

Then you simply need this book.

An appeal to the nervous, picky, disgusted, and sanctimonious: please don’t bother!