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A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

2 Seasons
8 Episodes
Ended
Comedy Drama
Cast & Characters
episode image Episode 4
7.9/10 (269 votes)

#1 Episode 4

S2:E4

The young Doctor delivers a self-serving eulogy at a funeral. The Bolsheviks take over. The Young Doctor is required to make a life-changing decision when a train is derailed.

episode image Episode 3
7.7/10 (399 votes)

#2 Episode 3

S1:E3

In spite of his success in the operating room, life in the snow-bound hospital begins to take its toll on the young doctor. His efforts to combat his feelings of boredom and isolation are defeated and he wonders how much longer he can last. Nursing abdominal pains and two harrowing cases, the young doctor is tempted by the allure of morphine...

episode image Episode 2
7.5/10 (427 votes)

#3 Episode 2

S1:E2

The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.

episode image Episode 4
7.5/10 (395 votes)

#4 Episode 4

S1:E4

Balancing a heavy workload with a developing morphine habit, the young doctor finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his burgeoning addiction from his colleagues. After one humiliation too many, he resolves to make a clean start and a dedicated effort to combat the syphilis epidemic. But a blizzard-bound journey to visit a dying patient proves to be his toughest test yet.

episode image Episode 1
7.5/10 (286 votes)

#5 Episode 1

S2:E1

It is 1918 and as the Civil War rages through Russia, quiet Mureyvo's Young Doctor is more concerned with hiding his growing morphine addiction from an inspection.

episode image Episode 2
7.5/10 (263 votes)

#6 Episode 2

S2:E2

Freshly rehabilitated, the Old Doctor is attacked aboard a train for his morphine addiction. In 1918, the Young Doctor falls in love with a beautiful aristocrat.

episode image Episode 3
7.5/10 (249 votes)

#7 Episode 3

S2:E3

Pelageya is sick with either malaria or typhus as the Young Doctor becomes more fixated with Natasha.

episode image Episode 1
7.3/10 (486 votes)

#8 Episode 1

S1:E1

A doctor finds his old diary while answering to the authorities about self-prescribing morphine. He has a series of comic exchanges with his young and inexperienced self, mocking him for his youthful looks and guiding him through his early difficulties on the job.

Cast & Chracters

character image Older Doctor

Older Doctor

Actor: Jon Hamm
character image Young Doctor

Young Doctor

Actor: Daniel Radcliffe
character image The Feldsher

The Feldsher

Actor: Adam Godley
character image Anna

Anna

Actor: Vicki Pepperdine
character image Pelageya

Pelageya

Actor: Rosie Cavaliero

The highest rated episode of A Young Doctor's Notebook is "Episode 4" (S2E4) with a rating of 7.90.

This episode received 269 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Episode 1" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.30.

This episode received 486 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Episode 3" (S1E3) with a rating of 7.70.

This episode received 399 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Episode 1" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.30.

This episode received 486 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Episode 4" (S2E4) with a rating of 7.90.

This episode received 269 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Episode 1" (S2E1) with a rating of 7.50.

This episode received 286 votes.

Name Department Job
Simon Vickery Camera Director of Photography
Annie Hardinge Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer
Mark Henson Editing Editor
Clelia Mountford Production Producer
Jon Hamm Production Executive Producer
Kenton Allen Production Executive Producer
Sarah Crowe Production Casting
Stephen Warbeck Sound Original Music Composer
Mikhail Bulgakov Writing Short Story

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