“A Country Doctor's Notebook”, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Our patron, Professor Richard Knight says “Doctors should have a broad appreciation of the variety of human experience and reading is one way of achieving this. In addition, any reasonable education should include some familiarity with the works of major artists including writers. A Country Doctor's Notebook is relevant reading not only for the above two reasons, but also because it is a very personal, and at times moving, account of being a doctor. While it deals with past medical practice, and in a country remote from the UK, it contains descriptions of universal and contemporary relevance.”