I had noticed that Daniel Radcliffe was in the Sky Arts TV production of A Young Doctor's Notebook. It's based on the Mikhail Bulgakov short story collection of the same name. It's about his experience of a young Russian doctor, fresh out of medical school, in a tiny hospital in the middle of nowhere. It's set in two times, 1917 when he was a new doctor, and 1934 when he's being investigated for writing morphine prescriptions for himself. He developed the addiction to cope with life in the middle of nowhere. It's not a happy story, it's a flood despair, snow, sadness and blood, but there are some dark bits of humor and slapstick. His older self, John Hamm, reads the diary he kept as a young doctor and injects himself into the story to warn him off the drug. It doesn't work. Really, why would he think it would, people coming from the future to tell you to quit using drugs isn't going to help cure that problem, it probably would make you think you're crazy. It's a well done production that I was glad to be finished with, I wouldn't need to see it again. There's a second series that deals with the morphine addiction and WWII. Fun times. Not sure I would bother with it after the first one.
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