Notes of a Soviet Doctor
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This is a fascinating book and (as said in Professor Mamamtavrischvili's Foreword) it provides the answers to many troubling questions of vital importance asked by young doctors and students in Russia. It certainly needs reading by anyone studying the influences which mould their professional standards. Dr. Iago Galdston suggests in his introduction that Dr. Pondoev has three personalities?a broadly experienced doctor, a doctrinaire and an illuminated humanist?which never meet, and are unaware of each other: but this is not quite true for the first and third have something in common and the conflict produced by the second is occasionally noticeable. This apart, there are some lessons for the West: "The correct
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