https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/notes from a young doctor in Talas. no names, no patients Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/06/last-post-from-the-duty-room.html Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:55:00 +0600bloghttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/06/last-post-from-the-duty-room.html Tonight is my last night shift here. I finished the notes, I gave the keys of the cabinet to the new girl (she is 24, she looks at me like I looked at the senior resident in 2012, and it feels strange to be on the other side of that look). I am leaving on Thursday. A bus, a border, a clinic, a new…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/05/the-list.html Sun, 21 May 2017 19:30:00 +0600bloghttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/05/the-list.html For the people who ask. A list of reasons to stay: my mother. The nurses. The old man with the bag of pills, who still comes. The night sky over the Diagnostic Center. The tea. A list of reasons to go: the same salary I have, but three times. Time to sleep. A real holiday, the first since 2013.…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/04/a-decision.html Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0600lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/04/a-decision.html I am going to say this once. A clinic in Almaty has offered me a place: a private clinic, internal medicine, a contract, a flat in the building next to it (shared, with a Kazakh girl who is a dentist), and a salary I do not want to write here because I will cry for the second time this year. I…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/01/the-coldest-week.html Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:50:00 +0600winterhttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2017/01/the-coldest-week.html The boiler in building C broke for two days in the coldest week. We moved the patients, we heated water on a plate in the corridor and fed tea to the whole ward. One old man said "like in 1992". I think he meant it kindly. The nurses wore two jackets over their white coats. I wore mine over three…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/11/how-we-eat.html Mon, 21 Nov 2016 02:20:00 +0600nightshttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/11/how-we-eat.html A list of what a duty doctor eats in one 24-hour shift: 4 boorsoks, a bowl of canteen soup, 2 slices of bread, half a dried apricot packet, 11 cups of tea, and a plov at midnight if somebody's birthday. Do not do what I do.https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/09/a-wedding-in-the-middle-of-the-shift.html Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:00:00 +0600lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/09/a-wedding-in-the-middle-of-the-shift.html My cousin's wedding was Saturday in a toikana with 400 people. I was on duty until 10 a.m., so I changed in the toilet of the hospital, put on the dress, ran to the marshrutka with my duty shoes in a bag. At the wedding everybody asked if I was a "real" doctor. At the table, a drunk uncle gave me…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/06/after.html Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:00:00 +0600bloghttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/06/after.html Thank you for the comments under the last post. I read them on the bus. A woman I do not know wrote "God keeps the count of what you did", and I read this twice. I'm better now. The bad night is a part of the work, and I am going to carry it, and I will go to work tomorrow.https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/05/a-bad-night.html Sun, 08 May 2016 06:00:00 +0600nightshttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/05/a-bad-night.html I will not tell about it. Not for the blog. Not for anyone. We did everything. Sometimes everything is not enough. I went out to the car park at 5, the cat sat on the bonnet of my friend's Lada and looked at me. I fed it my boorsok.https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/02/the-nurses.html Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:50:00 +0600nightshttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2016/02/the-nurses.html Nobody writes about the nurses. In Irad half the hospital is nurses, they have the real knowledge, and they are paid like they are secretaries. Many go to Russia or the USA after three or four years. This year four left from our floor. The head of the nurses' association (no name, she would be…https://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2015/12/shortage.html Mon, 07 Dec 2015 04:30:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/dezhurstvo/2015/12/shortage.html The hospital pharmacy ran out of one injection that I need for the night. The numbered pharmacy in the city has it on the list, but at the end of the month it sells out. The Shıpa pharmacy has it at three times the price. I sent a nurse's son with money from the staff cup. We found it. I do not…